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"For real, e'rybody's a star, e'rybody shine
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Follow your heart and not mankind
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For real, for real, I'm 'bout to do my thing to shine
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Said everybody shine, c'mon"
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It's not luck that I'm sittin' here spittin' for y'all
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Preeld in by Allah that I'm hittin' for y'all
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Growin' up on the New York concrete lookin'
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Like a little snotty dish of prodigy cookin'
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They called me Little Man all in the boulevard
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When I was young, my family used to party hard
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Gangs of uncatched kids turned to blood ketchup
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The illest niggas was Richard Pryor and Ronnie Bump
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Skinned knees from being bad-ass little boys
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Police sirens and baby screams was average noise
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Hip-Hop came, the ghetto copped the soundtrack
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Street poetry to tracks, could you beat that?
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Malik Taylor introduced it to me
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He said, "Forget Benny Hill, nigga, let's MC"
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Twelve years old, rhymin' in the backroom
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For echoes, we used to rhyme in the bathroom
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Run-D.M.C., Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh
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The Juice Crew rule but who's this nigga KRS?
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Reference points, too many to wish for
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Battlin' niggas on trains, I stay raw
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Never let my dream die
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I was happy and high goin' to Alee's and Bed-Stuy
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We made our first demo tape
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Excited like a mawfucka, lookin' for our first break
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I know
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("F'real")
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You can do it
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("Listen to the story I tell yo)
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Be abidin', chy'all
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(F'real")
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I know
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("Don't let 'em hate to front you")
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You can see it
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("Get up and follow me and flow again, use my life as an example")
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Do it, and see it, and be nobody else
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Jungle Brothers, De La, they gave me little light
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In Top, Three Feet, Buddy, that was aight
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One year later, the Tribe was initiated
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Bonita came, it was wild how she dominated
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Can I kick it parled us to our next phase
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So drunk in those days, I truly was amazed
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How I got up enough to make tunes
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People cheered me, it was Foreign, then came Low End Theory
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People quickly recognized who we are
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Phife is ill and Busta is a superstar
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Tours with P.E., Naughty, and the Geto Boys
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Arsenio Hall, women then were evil toys
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Whisperin' hate inside my brother's virgin ears
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Tryin to hurt but, yo, we stood amongst the tears
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Midnight was even tighter, now look at us
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Condoms is on the rida stored on the bus
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It got funky right here, I had to save my life
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In the snow after the show, I had a fight wit' Phife
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Moves to a land to get away but back home
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Job was urkin' us, it sent me through a danger zone
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The good thing, I found Allah in the process
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An angel appeared wit' sneaky ways and gave me stress
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Now what am I to do?
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My album's platinum but I'm still feelin' blue, c'mon
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Yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah
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("You can do it")
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Yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah
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Yeah
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("I know")
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Yeah, yeah
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("You can see it")
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Yeah, yeah
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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Makin' my way, the wilderness has grown fierce
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Redemption and my heart, both of them was pierced
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Crashed my truck, didn't think I'd make it out
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Had a hit on my life, he thought I screwed his wife
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Plus my house burned down, me and Ands was in it
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My crew was tired and I knew we had to end it
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But through all of this, I'm still here
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Take notes and let hope floats
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I'm still here, take note and let hope float
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I'm still here, take notes and let hope float
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You can do the same shit that I'm doin'
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You can do the same thing that I'm doin', uh-huh
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I'm still here, take note, let it, uh-hah
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Still here, take notes and let it float, ha-ha
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Still here, take and let it
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You can do the same thing I'm doin', thing that I'm doin'
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Still here, take and let it, uh-hah
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Still here, take notes, let it float, c'mon
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Still here, take notes, let it float, c'mon
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Do the same thing that I'm doin' if ya pay attention
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I know
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You can see it
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Do it, and see it, and be nobody else
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