"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to party of uncatched kids turned to blood ketchup The illest was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees from bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice Crew rule but who's nigga KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw let my dream die I was happy and goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We our first demo tape Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the story I yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em to front you") You can see it ("Get up and follow me and again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Brothers, De La, they gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One year later, the Tribe was Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, came Low End Theory
People recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women were evil toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the Midnight was tighter, now look at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to save my In the after the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found Allah in the An appeared wit' sneaky ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm feelin' 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 and my heart, both of them was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he I screwed his wife Plus my house burned down, me and 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 hope I'm here, take note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same shit I'm doin' You can do the same thing I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the same I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, and let it, uh-hah here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, 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 else