What we have to do is deal it When these individuals are enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this at times calls if or which over
We seem to be an age of the gross We all this idea that we should Move up a little bit from our station And each generation should do a bit better
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can discuss Thats made on this tape and its 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 east of Detroit 8 mile 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 I don't belong here You've that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from shopping center Just for in there from the black side All the way to the white
Okay there's a side, a day that I might slide You may call it a I call it haulin' my ass Through patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them 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 this little place That I once used to call home home
on, let's go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this 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 thumb to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike from backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the halfway To meet Kim had to back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the At Osborne handin' out some
He was some 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 like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first And we both had the rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane compound syllables sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the
So, let's go 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
Come on, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes It was rumors but man god damned they
Must a been true man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just them in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a 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 is in, African symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All over our like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even half You ain't posed to have that let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch
All I is meetin' back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan take reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first 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 eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it 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 I become more popular But I would be able to 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 spoke to the oh pride girl But heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I out a whole race and for that apologize I was 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once to call home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to call home home