What we have to do is deal it When these are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at times calls if or over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have idea that we should up a little bit from our parents station And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, on let's cut the bullshit enough 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 and its whole original The music that we all 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 of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd to share a story This is my story and you nobody tell 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 Bel-air shopping Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the white
Okay there's a side, a day that I might slide You may call it a past I it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass over railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks old railroad tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
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 I once used to call 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 call home home
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike Just to get up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park was the halfway mark 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 Thats about the time I first met n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He at me like I'm out my mind Shook his head like white boys don't know how to
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane With compound syllables sound From that day we was to ride Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I used to call home sweet 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 little That I once used to call home sweet
My year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes It was rumors but man god they flew
Must a been true because man we done banned 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 through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and With a key sissies now with this a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter 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 homie let me grab And that flavor clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at Manx's Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the time 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 eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a of jugs The bombest god damn in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
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 to the oh foolish pride girl 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 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I used to call home sweet home