"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little snotty of prodigy cookin' They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of kids 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 poetry to tracks, could you beat Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Rick and Doug E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but this nigga KRS? Reference points, too to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to Alee's and We made our demo tape Excited a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the I tell yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em hate to 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
Jungle Brothers, De La, they me little light In Top, Feet, Buddy, that was aight One year later, the was initiated came, it was wild how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our next So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Boys Arsenio Hall, women then evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my virgin ears Tryin to but, yo, we stood amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us Condoms is on the rida on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save my life In the snow the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a zone The thing, I found Allah in the process An angel appeared sneaky ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My platinum but I'm still 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 down, me and Ands was in it My was tired and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm still notes and let hope floats I'm still here, take and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the thing that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else