What we to do is deal with it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a sense 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 generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit let's get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's take this back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole original The music that we all and love
The we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na destroy Let's it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick 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 don't here made that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere Bel-air shopping center Just for in there from the black side All the way to the side
Okay there's a side, a day that I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's 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
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch 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 drop it off at the park that was the mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on after dark To sneak me in the when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at centerline I told him to stop by and us out sometime He looked at me I'm out my mind Shook his head like white boys don't know how to
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday first place And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the shit that big Daddy Kane shit compound syllables sound combined From day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd 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 once used to call home home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
My first in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool your man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand the clan makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been true man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the like they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X Clan
Professor X and glorious exists in a of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums Blackness is in, African symbols and Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're '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 that And that flave clock 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 up for the first time She was try na two me and there was this black girl At our school who thought I was I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even say it plus The same hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole if I could pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And the last I ever seen or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But I've heard people say heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a race and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter color a girl is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow 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 as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call sweet home