What we have to do is with it When these are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute this country at times calls if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have idea 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 bullshit enough get it started Let's start addressing this 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 that we all know and love
The music we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na Let's rewind it to '89 I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you cant nobody 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 near everywhere from shopping center for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the white
there's a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that patch of grass over them tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks good old notorious oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick 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
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 place That I once used to call home sweet
I'd roam the streets so much call me a drifter Sometimes I up a thumb just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out some
He was doin' talent shows at centerline high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like white boys don't how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed with first place And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the same shit that big Daddy shit compound 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 another Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at 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 damned they
Must a true because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we just through them in the trash they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X debut
X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with bein' 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 what it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're 'em off not knowin' at all We was laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have that 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 this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first She was try na two time me and there was black girl At our who thought I was cool I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess her name was ain't even gon' say it plus The same color hair as was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn in our whole school if I could pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same
But it backfired I was to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I ever seen or 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 and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter what a girl is she still a
So, 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
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home