"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 Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little snotty dish of prodigy They me Little Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? Reference points, too to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to 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 I tell yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em hate to 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 else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I it parled us to our next phase So in those days, I truly was amazed How I got up enough to make People me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Hall, women then were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's virgin Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood 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 after the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a to get away but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found in the process An appeared wit' sneaky ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still feelin' blue,
Yeah, Yeah, ("You can do it") Yeah, Yeah, ("I know")
Yeah, ("You can see it") Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, both of them was my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his my house burned down, me and Ands was in it My crew was and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm here 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 that I'm doin' You can do the thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing that I'm 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 thing that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody