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 times calls if or over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this idea we should Move up a little bit from our station And each generation should do a bit better
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started start addressing this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its original The music we all know and love
The we all enjoy the music 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 into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I don't here You've that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there the black 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 over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well known
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
I'd roam the streets so they call me a drifter Sometimes I up a thumb just to hitch hike Just to get 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 park that was the mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her on Chalmers after dark To me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was some talent shows at centerline high I told him to stop by and check us out He looked at me I'm out my mind Shook his head like white boys don't how to rhyme
I spit out a line and birthday with first place And we both had the same that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy shit With compound sound combined From day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again down the line
So, let's go 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 home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till man M C Sham came through And said that the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a been true because man we done they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through them in the like they yesterday's news who came through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now this bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums is in, African symbols and medallions 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 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor 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 reminds me in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and was this black girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony what her name was ain't even gon' say it plus 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 time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And the last I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say they the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for that I was wrong 'cuz no matter color a girl is she still a
So, 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 sweet home
Come on, go back 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 home sweet home