"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody Follow your heart and not For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my to shine everybody shine, c'mon"
It's not luck that I'm here spittin' for y'all in by Allah that I'm hittin' for y'all Growin' up on the New York lookin' Like a little dish of prodigy cookin' They called me Man all in the boulevard When I was young, my family used to hard Gangs of uncatched turned to blood ketchup The illest was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
knees 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 Taylor introduced it to me He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, MC" Twelve years old, in the backroom For echoes, we used to in the bathroom
Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. The Juice Crew rule but who's this KRS? Reference points, too many to for niggas on trains, I stay raw Never let my die I was happy and high goin' to Alee's and We made our first demo 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 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
Brothers, De La, they gave me little light In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, was aight One year later, the Tribe was came, it was wild how she dominated Can I kick it parled us to our phase So drunk in those days, I truly was 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 Busta is a Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Arsenio Hall, women then were toys Whisperin' hate my brother's virgin ears Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the was even tighter, now look at us Condoms is on the stored on the bus
It got funky right here, I had to save my In the snow the show, I had a fight wit' Phife Moves to a to get away but back home Job was urkin' us, it sent me a danger zone The good thing, I Allah in the process An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and 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 my truck, didn't 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 notes and let hope I'm still here, take note and let hope I'm here, take notes and let hope float
You can do the same shit that I'm You can do the same that I'm doin', uh-huh I'm still here, note, let it, uh-hah Still here, take notes and let it float, here, take and let it You can do the same I'm doin', thing 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 that I'm doin' if ya pay
I You can see it Do it, and see it, and be nobody