"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow 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 lookin' Like a little snotty of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched kids turned to ketchup The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Malik Taylor it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve years old, in the backroom For echoes, we to rhyme in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick and Doug E. Fresh The Crew rule but who's this nigga KRS? Reference points, too to wish 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 demo Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first
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, was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated 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 enough to make People cheered me, it was Foreign, came Low End Theory
People quickly who we are is ill and Busta is a superstar Tours P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys Hall, women then were evil toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us is on the rida stored on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save my life In the snow the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a land to get but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me a danger zone The good thing, I found in the process An appeared wit' sneaky ways and gave me stress Now am I to do? My album's platinum but I'm still feelin' blue,
Yeah, Yeah, ("You can do it") Yeah, Yeah, ("I know")
Yeah, ("You can see it") Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Makin' my way, the has grown fierce Redemption and my heart, both of them was Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd 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 and I knew we had to end it But through all of this, I'm still Take notes and let hope I'm here, take note and let hope float I'm still here, take notes and let float
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, take note, let it, Still here, notes 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, notes, let it float, c'mon here, take 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 else