What we have to do is with it When these 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 which
We seem to be an age of the gross We all this idea that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the enough let's get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's take 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 Let's rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren hick territory I'd like to share a story 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 everywhere from Bel-air shopping for stopping in there 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 over them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well tracks
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the brick 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 sweet
I'd roam the so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I up a thumb just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 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 on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the 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 doin' talent 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 boys know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday first place And we both had the rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit big Daddy Kane shit With compound sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to home sweet home
My first in 9th grade, can't 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 rumors but man god damned flew
Must a true because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through them in the trash like they yesterday's Guess who through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this bein' a new We don't fit in crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, African and medallions black power and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter go to the mall with 'em All our necks like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even black You posed to have that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but 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 thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even say it plus The color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our school if I could pull it Not only would I more popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was to dump 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 heard 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, 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 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 this little place I once used to call home sweet home