What we have to do is with it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what country at times calls if or which over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this that we should Move up a little bit from our parents And each generation should do a 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 basement and we can discuss Thats made on tape and its whole original The music that we all and love
The music we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na Let's rewind it to '89 I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick I'd like to share 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 belong You've made that perfectly I get my ass kicked near everywhere from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in from the black side All the way to the side
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may call it a past I it haulin' my ass Through patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh railroad tracks them old railroad tracks Them old notorious oh well 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 call home sweet
on, let's go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home home
I'd roam the streets so much they me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 and Van Dyke And steal a god bike from somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the halfway To meet Kim had to walk to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the when I'm kicked out my Mom's 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 by and check us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane compound syllables sound combined From day we was down to ride Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, 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
Come on, go back 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 call sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget day at school It was cool your man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes It was rumors but man god damned they
a been true because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now this bein' a new trend We don't fit in as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't half black You ain't posed to have that homie let me grab And flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at 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 this girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony what her name was ain't even gon' 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 would I become more 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 I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh pride girl But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for that I was wrong 'cuz no matter 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 you through this nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home sweet