"For real, a star, e'rybody shine Follow heart and not mankind For real, for real, I'm to do my thing to shine Said shine, c'mon"
It's not that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all Preeld in by that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New concrete lookin' Like a little snotty dish of prodigy They called me Little Man all in the When I was young, my family to party hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
Skinned knees from being little boys sirens and baby screams was average noise Hip-Hop came, the ghetto copped the Street poetry to tracks, you beat that? Malik Taylor 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 points, too many to wish for Battlin' niggas on trains, I raw Never let my die I was and high goin' 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 to front 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 later, the Tribe was initiated Bonita came, it was wild how she Can I it parled us to our next phase So drunk in those days, I truly was How I got up to make tunes cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
People recognized who we are Phife is ill and Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Hall, women then were evil toys Whisperin' hate inside my brother's ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood the tears was even tighter, now look 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 wit' Moves to a land to get away but home Job was urkin' us, it me through a danger zone 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 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 grown Redemption and my heart, of them was pierced Crashed my truck, think I'd make it out Had a hit on my life, he thought I his wife Plus my burned 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 and let hope floats I'm still here, take note and let hope I'm still here, take notes and let hope
You can do the same that I'm doin' You can do the thing that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm here, take note, let it, uh-hah Still here, notes and let it float, ha-ha Still here, and let it You can do the same thing I'm doin', that I'm doin' Still here, and let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes, let it float, Still here, take notes, let it float, Do the same thing I'm doin' if ya pay attention
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody