"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to Said shine, c'mon"
It's not luck I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by Allah I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard I was young, my family used to party hard Gangs of kids turned to blood ketchup The niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned from being bad-ass little boys Police sirens and baby screams was noise came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack Street poetry to tracks, could you beat Malik introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve years old, rhymin' in the For echoes, we used to rhyme in the
Run-D.M.C., Rick and Doug E. Fresh 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 demo tape Excited like a mawfucka, 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 to front you") You can see it ("Get up and follow me and flow again, use my as an example") Do it, and see it, and be else
Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our next So drunk in those days, I truly was How I got up enough to make People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End
People quickly who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, women then were evil hate inside my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we amongst the tears Midnight was even tighter, now at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky here, I had to save 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 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 feelin' blue,
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 Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his Plus my house burned down, me and was in it My was tired and I knew we had to end it But all of this, I'm still here Take notes and let floats I'm still here, 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 same thing 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 thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin' Still here, and let it, uh-hah Still here, notes, let it float, c'mon here, take notes, let it float, c'mon Do the thing that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody