What we to do is deal with it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at calls if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this idea that we Move up a little bit from our station And each should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit let's get it started Let's start addressing this and open it up Let's this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its original The music we all know and love
The we all enjoy 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 Crossin' 8 mile into 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 that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there from the side All the way to the side
Okay there's a bright side, a day I might slide You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that patch of over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old railroad Them good old oh well known tracks
So, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick 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
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a thumb to hitch hike Just to get 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 was the halfway mark 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 on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at 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 boys don't how to rhyme
I spit out a line and birthday with first place And we both had the same that sound alike We was on the same shit big Daddy Kane shit With syllables sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, let's go the yellow brick road 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
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at It was cool till your man M C Sham came And said that pumas the brand the clan makes troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been true because man we done banned they I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just through in the trash like they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X Clan
Professor X and exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now this bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African and medallions Represents black and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter go to the mall with 'em All over our necks we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't to have that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at Manx's Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but 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 was this black girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't gon' say it plus The same color hair as hers was and 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 Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to her But she me for this black guy And the last I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've people say they 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, 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 to call home sweet 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 That I once used to home sweet home