"For real, e'rybody's a star, shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here for y'all Preeld in by that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York concrete a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my used to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned knees from bad-ass little boys Police and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you that? Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve old, rhymin' in the backroom For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's this nigga Reference points, too many to for niggas on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high to Alee's and Bed-Stuy We made our first tape Excited 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 me and flow again, use my life as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One year later, the Tribe was Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in those days, I truly was How I got up enough to tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, came Low End Theory
People recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Boys Hall, women then were evil toys Whisperin' inside 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 my life In the snow after the show, I had a fight Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me a danger zone The good thing, I Allah in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and 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,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his my house burned 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 here Take notes and let hope I'm here, take note and let hope float I'm still here, take and let hope float
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the same thing that I'm doin', I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha here, take 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, take notes, let it float, Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same thing that I'm if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else