"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 everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here for y'all Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Richard and Ronnie Bump
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise Hip-Hop came, the 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, rhymin' in the For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and E. Fresh The Juice Crew rule but who's nigga KRS? Reference points, too many to for Battlin' on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to Alee's and We our first demo tape like a mawfucka, lookin' 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 else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One year later, the Tribe was Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I kick it parled us to our next So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up to make tunes People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
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 toys hate inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the Midnight was even tighter, now at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to my life In the snow after the show, I had a wit' Phife Moves to a land to get away but home Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I Allah in the process An angel wit' sneaky ways and gave 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,
Makin' my way, the wilderness has fierce 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 Plus my house down, me and Ands was in it My crew was tired and I we had to end it But through all of this, I'm here Take notes and let hope I'm still here, take note and let float I'm still here, notes and let hope float
You can do the shit that I'm doin' You can do the same thing I'm doin', uh-huh I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take and let it float, ha-ha here, take and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', that I'm doin' here, take and let it, uh-hah Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon Do the same that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else