What we to do is deal with it When these individuals are 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 to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this idea that we Move up a little bit from our station And each should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the enough let's get it started Let's addressing this issue and open it up Let's take this shit to basement and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole original The that we all know and love
The music we all enjoy the you all accuse me of try na destroy rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a This is my story and you nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I belong here made that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from shopping center for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the white
Okay a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well known
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch Just to get up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some shows at centerline high I told him to stop by and us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like white don't know how to rhyme
I out a line and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the shit that big Daddy Kane shit With compound sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere the line
So, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And said that pumas the brand the clan makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
a been true 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 like they 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 this bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions black power and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall with 'em All over our like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at basement Sayin' how we this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was black girl At our school who I was cool I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it The same color hair as was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I pull it Not only I become more popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I ever or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say 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, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once used to home sweet home