"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine 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 called me Little Man all in the When I was young, my family used to hard of uncatched kids turned to blood ketchup The illest was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees from being little boys Police sirens and screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you beat Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" years old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice rule but who's this nigga KRS? points, too many to wish for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our 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 nobody
Brothers, De La, they gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One year later, the 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 me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are is ill and Busta is a superstar Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Hall, women then were evil toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears was even tighter, now look 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 land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it me through a danger zone The good thing, I found Allah in the 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 them was Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his Plus my burned down, me and Ands was in it My was tired and I knew we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take notes and let hope 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 same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah here, take notes and let it float, ha-ha Still here, 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, notes, let it float, c'mon 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 else