"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here for y'all Preeld in by Allah I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby was average noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack Street to tracks, could you beat that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" years old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Rick and Doug E. Fresh The Crew rule but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw let my dream die I was happy and high to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the I tell yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em to front you") You can see it ("Get up and me and flow again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Jungle Brothers, De La, they me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it parled us to our next So drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then Low End Theory
quickly recognized who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, then were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got right here, I had to save my life In the snow after the show, I had a wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but back Job was urkin' us, it me through a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still blue, c'mon
Yeah, Yeah, ("You can do it") Yeah, Yeah, ("I know")
Yeah, ("You can see it") Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Makin' my way, the wilderness has fierce Redemption and my heart, both of was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was tired and I we had to end it But through all of this, I'm still Take notes and let floats I'm still here, take note and let hope I'm still here, notes and let hope float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' here, take and let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes, let it float, here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody