"For real, a star, e'rybody shine your heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for Growin' up on the New York concrete Like a little snotty dish of cookin' They called me Little Man all in the When I was young, my family used to party Gangs of uncatched kids to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees from being bad-ass little Police sirens and baby was average noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you that? Malik Taylor it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, in the backroom 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 nigga 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 first demo Excited like a mawfucka, 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, gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated came, it was wild how she dominated Can I kick it us to our next phase So drunk in 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 Busta is a Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Arsenio Hall, women were evil toys hate inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears Midnight was tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to my life In the snow after the show, I had a fight Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was us, it sent me through a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky 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 was pierced my truck, didn't think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his Plus my house down, me and Ands was in it My crew was tired and I we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take notes and let floats I'm here, take note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let float
You can do the same shit that I'm 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', thing that I'm Still here, take and let it, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody