What we to do is deal with it these 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 to be approaching an age of the gross We all have idea that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start addressing this issue and it up Let's take this shit to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on tape and its whole original The music that we all know and
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 side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you cant tell it for me
You have informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked near everywhere from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there the black side All the way to the side
Okay there's a 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 railroad Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well tracks
So, 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 to call home sweet home
Come on, 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 once used to call home sweet
I'd roam the streets so much call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van And steal a god damn from 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 me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out some
He was doin' some talent shows at centerline I told him to by and check us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his head like boys 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 that big Daddy Kane shit With compound sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we knew meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at It was cool till your man M C Sham came And that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan 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 like they news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a of red, black, and green a key sissies now with this 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 what it
Me and my man Howard and butter go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't 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 remember is back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X take this 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 thought I was 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the guess what her name was ain't even gon' 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 school if I could it Not only would I more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same
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 foolish girl But I've people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole and for that apologize I was 'cuz no matter what 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 this nifty place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home