What we have to do is with it When these are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at times calls if or 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 this issue and it up Let's this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on tape and its whole original The music that we all 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 into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you cant tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I belong here You've made that clear I get my ass kicked Damn everywhere from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the white
Okay a bright side, a day that I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass over them railroad Oh them railroad tracks old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh known tracks
So, 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 used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go 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 home sweet home
I'd roam the streets so they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hike to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And a god damn bike from somebody's backyard
And it off at the park that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his head like white don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with place And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy shit With compound sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we knew meet again somewhere down the line
So, go back Follow the brick 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
Come on, 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
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the 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 J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like they news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this bein' a new We don't fit in crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, African and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know what it
Me and my man Howard and butter go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like showin '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 flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I is meetin' back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how 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 time me and there was black girl At our school who I was cool I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it The same color hair as hers was and blue and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular 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 black guy And that's the last I ever seen or Or spoke to the oh foolish girl But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it that bad But it was I singled out a race and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter what color a is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once to call home 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 little That I once used to home sweet home