What we have to do is with it When these individuals are enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at calls if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And each generation should do a little bit
Alright, come on let's cut the enough let's get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its whole The music that we all know and
The music we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na Let's it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a This is my story and you nobody tell it for me
You have informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made perfectly clear 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 white
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I slide You may call it a I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass over railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
So, go back 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
on, let's go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb 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 mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers dark To sneak me in the when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some shows at centerline high I told him to by and check 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 line and rhymed with first place And we both had the same rhymes sound alike We was on the same shit that big Kane shit With syllables sound combined From that day we was to ride we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go 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 home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
My first in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham came And said that pumas the brand the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god they flew
Must a been true because man we banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who through 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 know 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 even half You ain't posed to that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave 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 who thought I was cool I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't gon' say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a 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 dumped me for black guy And that's the last I 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 singled out a whole race and for that I was wrong no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow 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