What we have to do is deal it these individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at calls if or which over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all this idea that we should up a little bit from our parents station And each should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit let's get it started Let's start addressing this and open it up Let's take this shit back to and we can discuss statements made on this tape and its whole original The music that we all know and
The music we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into into hick territory 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 well aware that I don't belong made 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
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 over them tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old tracks Them good old notorious oh well tracks
So, let's go 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 call home sweet
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 streets so much 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 somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the halfway To Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the time I first met n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I told him to stop by and check us out He looked at me I'm out my mind Shook his like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed with first place And we had the same rhymes that sound alike We was on the shit that big Daddy Kane shit With compound syllables sound From that day we was to ride Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the makes troops It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a been true because man we done banned they I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and With a key sissies now with bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we know what it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All our necks like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have that let me grab that And that flavor clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at Manx's how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the time She was try na two me and there was this 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 say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue and a pair of jugs The god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular But I would be to piss Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she dumped me for this guy And that's the I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter what a girl is she still a
So, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home