What we to do is deal with 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 have this idea that we Move up a bit from our parents station And each generation should do a bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole original The music that we all and love
The music we all the music you all accuse 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 Warren into hick territory I'd to share a story This is my story and you cant nobody it for me
You have well informed me and I am aware that I don't belong here You've made that perfectly clear I get my ass Damn near from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the side
Okay a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a I call it haulin' my ass Through patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh railroad tracks them old railroad tracks good old notorious oh well known tracks
So, go back 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 call 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 place That I once used to call sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a thumb to hitch hike Just to get up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god 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 me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I told him to stop by and check us out He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his like 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 that big Daddy Kane With syllables sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go 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, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And said that the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god they flew
a been 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 news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and a key sissies now with this bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums Blackness is in, African 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 over our like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have that let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how but dope the X Clan take this reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was black girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her was ain't even gon' say it plus The same color hair as 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 popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I ever or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish 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 wrong 'cuz no 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 this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, 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 call home sweet