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 country at calls if or which over
We seem to be an age of the gross We all have this idea that we Move up a little bit from our station And each should do a little bit better
Alright, on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start addressing issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can 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 when I was a boy on the side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to a story This is my story and you cant tell it for me
You well informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made that clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air shopping Just for stopping in there the black side All the way to the white
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 them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old railroad Them old notorious oh well known tracks
So, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place 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 through nifty little place That I once used to call home home
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike to get picked 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 park that was the mark To Kim had to walk 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 out some flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at centerline I told him to by and check us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we had the same rhymes that sound alike We was on the same that big Daddy Kane shit With compound syllables combined From that day we was down to Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, 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 used to call home sweet home
Come on, 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 used to call home sweet home
My year 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 'cuz the clan makes It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we through them in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and With a key sissies now with this a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out with cactus Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the mall 'em All over our like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you even half black You ain't posed to that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan take Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the time She was try na two time me and there was this black At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony guess what her was ain't even gon' say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a of jugs The god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she dumped me for this guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But I've heard people say they heard the and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for apologize I was wrong no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to call home home