What we to do is deal with it When individuals 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 which
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have idea that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And each should do a little bit better
Alright, on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's addressing this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can discuss Thats on this tape and its whole original The music we all know and love
The music we all enjoy the you all accuse me of try na destroy Let's rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick I'd like to share a story This is my and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn everywhere from Bel-air shopping center 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 patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well known
So, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van And a god damn 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 house I'm kicked out my Mom's about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was some talent shows at centerline high I told him to stop by and us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like white don't know how to rhyme
I out a line and rhymed birthday with first place And we had the same rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit big Daddy Kane shit With compound sound combined that day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd again somewhere down the line
So, let's go 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 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 home home
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan troops It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a been true because man we banned they shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like they news Guess who through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African 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 necks like we're showin 'em off not at all We was bein' laughed at you even half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two me and there was this black girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony guess her name was ain't even gon' say it plus The same color as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular But I would be able to Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And the last I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say they the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for that I was wrong 'cuz no matter what a girl is she still a
So, 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 once used to call home sweet
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once to call home sweet home