"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Little Man all in the When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you beat Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" years old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but this nigga KRS? Reference points, too to wish for niggas on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to and Bed-Stuy We made our demo tape like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
I ("F'real") You can do it ("Listen to the story I yo) Be abidin', (F'real")
I ("Don't let 'em hate to you") You can see it ("Get up and follow me and flow again, use my as an example") Do it, and see it, and be nobody
Jungle Brothers, De La, gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I it parled us to our next phase So drunk in days, I truly was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then Low End Theory
quickly recognized who we are Phife is ill and is a superstar Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women then were evil Whisperin' hate my brother's 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 right here, I had to save my 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 Allah in the process An angel wit' sneaky ways and gave 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 grown Redemption and my heart, both of them was Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife 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 still notes and let hope floats I'm still here, take and let hope float I'm still here, notes and let hope float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, take notes and let it float, Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, Still here, take notes, let it float, 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 nobody