What we have to do is with it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute this country at times calls if or which over
We seem to be an age of the gross We all have this idea that we Move up a little bit from our parents And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the enough let's get it started Let's start addressing this and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can discuss made on this tape and its whole original The music that we all know and
The we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na destroy Let's rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a This is my story and you cant nobody it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong made that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in from the black side All the way to the white
Okay there's a bright side, a day I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass over railroad tracks Oh railroad tracks them old railroad tracks good old notorious oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And a god damn bike from 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 after dark To me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was some talent shows at centerline high I told him to by and check us out sometime He looked at me I'm out my mind Shook his head like boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the same shit that big Kane shit With compound syllables sound From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet somewhere down the line
So, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My first year in 9th grade, can't that day at school It was till your man M C Sham came through And said that the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god they flew
Must a been because man we done banned they shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this bein' a new We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African symbols and Represents black power and we ain't know it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're showin 'em off not at all We was laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I is meetin' back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was this black At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't gon' say it plus The same color as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I could it Not would I become more 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 black guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for apologize I was 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
Come on, 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 used to call home sweet home