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 what this at times calls if or which over
We to be approaching 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 and its whole original The music 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 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you nobody 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 Damn near everywhere from Bel-air center Just for in there from the black side All the way to the side
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that patch of grass over them railroad Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them old notorious 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 little That I once used to call home sweet
on, let's go back Follow the yellow 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
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb to hitch hike to get picked 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 that was the halfway To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers dark To sneak me in the house I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats the time I first met Proof 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 looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like white boys know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday first place And we both had the same that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Kane shit With compound syllables combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the 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 sweet home
on, let's go back 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 home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan troops It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a been true man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like 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 with bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums is in, African symbols and medallions Represents black power and we know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're showin 'em off not at all We was bein' at you ain't even half black You ain't to have that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at Manx's 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 me and there was this black girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't gon' say it plus The same color as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole if I could pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And that's the I ever seen or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for that I was wrong 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she a
So, let's go Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home