What we have to do is with it When individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at times calls if or which
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this idea we should up a little bit from our parents station And each generation should do a little bit
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start addressing this issue and it up Let's this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole original The music that we all know and
The music we all enjoy the music you all me of try na destroy rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into into hick territory I'd like to share a story is my story and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there from the side All the way to the white
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass over them railroad Oh railroad tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to call home home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to home sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hike Just to get picked up to get me a to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the time I met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' some shows at centerline high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday first place And we both had the same rhymes sound alike We was on the same that big Daddy Kane shit With compound syllables combined that day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget day at school It was till your man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X Clan
X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African and medallions Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan this reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two me and there was this black girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it The same color hair as hers was and blue and a pair of jugs The bombest god girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same
But it backfired I was supposed to her But she dumped me for this guy And the last I ever seen or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I out a whole race and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home