What we have to do is 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 to be approaching an age of the gross We all this idea that we should Move up a little bit from our station And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it Let's start addressing issue and open it up take this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its original 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 when I was a boy on the east side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to a story is my story and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I don't here You've made perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from shopping center Just for stopping in 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 grass 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 another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once used to call home sweet
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb to hitch hike to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn 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 first met Proof n' Goofy on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' talent shows at centerline high I told him to stop by and us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his head white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit big Daddy Kane shit With syllables sound combined that day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to 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 through nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at 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 they
Must a been because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just them in the trash like they 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 this bein' a new We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums is in, African symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the with 'em All over our necks like we're 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have that homie let me grab And that flave clock we gon' 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 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 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess her name was ain't even gon' say it plus The same hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole if I could pull it Not only would I become more But I would be able to piss Kim off at the time
But it backfired I was supposed to her But she dumped me for this guy And the last I ever 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 out a whole race and for that apologize I was 'cuz no matter what color 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 That I once used to call home sweet
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home