What we to do is deal with it When individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at calls if or which over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this that we should Move up a little bit from our parents And each generation should do a bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough get it started start addressing this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can discuss Thats made on this and its whole original The music we all know and love
The music we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na Let's rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick I'd like to share a story This is my story and you cant tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am aware that I don't belong here You've made that perfectly I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air center Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the side
there's a bright side, a day that I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once used to call home home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home home
I'd roam the streets so they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van And steal a god damn bike from somebody's
And drop it off at the park that was the mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I told him to by and check us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed with first place And we both had the rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Kane shit With compound sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, 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 home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road 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
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And said pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been true because man we done banned shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through them in the like they yesterday's news Guess who through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a of red, black, and green With a key sissies now this bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African and medallions Represents black and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the with 'em All over our necks we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even half You ain't posed to that homie let me grab that And that flavor clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first She was try na two time me and there was black girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda 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 contacts and a of jugs The bombest god damn 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 time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she dumped me for this guy And that's the last I ever or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish girl But I've people 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 wrong 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she a
So, 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 call home home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home home