What we have to do is deal it When individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this at times calls if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this idea we should Move up a little bit from our parents And generation should do a little 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 and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its whole The music we all know and love
The music we all enjoy the music you all me of try na destroy Let's rewind it to '89 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 and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made that perfectly clear I get my ass Damn near everywhere from shopping center Just for stopping in there the black side All the way to the side
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 grass over them tracks Oh railroad tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh known tracks
So, let's go 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
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 home home
I'd roam the streets so they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van And steal a god damn bike from backyard
And it off at the park that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm out my Mom's about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out some
He was doin' some talent shows at 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 birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane With compound syllables sound From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere the line
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 call sweet home
Come on, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget day at school It was till your man M C Sham came through And that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been true because man we banned they shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just them in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a of red, black, and green a key sissies now with this bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know what it
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 even half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement how we hate 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 me and there was this 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 gon' say it The same hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I ever seen or Or spoke to the oh pride girl 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 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she still 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
Come on, 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 used to call home sweet home