"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your and not mankind For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for Preeld in by Allah that I'm for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little snotty of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest niggas was Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees from bad-ass little boys sirens and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you beat Malik Taylor it to me He said, "Forget Hill, nigga, let's MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Slick and Doug 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 and high goin' to Alee's 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 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 else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was One year later, the was initiated Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in those days, I was amazed How I got up to make tunes cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Boys Arsenio Hall, women were evil toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears Midnight was even tighter, now 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 urkin' us, it sent me through a danger The good thing, I found 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,
my way, the wilderness has grown fierce 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 I screwed his wife Plus my house burned down, me and was in it My crew was 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, note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the shit that I'm doin' You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes and let it float, Still here, and let it You can do the same I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, take and let it, here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be else