What we have to do is with it When these individuals are enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what country at times calls if or which over
We seem to be an age of the gross We all have this that we should Move up a little bit from our parents And each generation should do a little bit
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough get it started Let's start addressing issue and open it up take this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on tape 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 Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick I'd like to share a story This is my and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made that perfectly clear I get my ass Damn near everywhere from Bel-air shopping Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the white
there's a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that patch of grass them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well tracks
So, go back 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 home home
on, let's 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 sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike from somebody's
And drop it off at the that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at centerline I told him to stop by and check us out 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 rhymed birthday with first And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the same that big Daddy Kane shit compound syllables sound combined From day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet 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 once used to call home home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't that day at school It was cool your man M C Sham came through And that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned they
a been true because man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we through them 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 with this a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums Blackness is in, African symbols and black power and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter go to the mall with 'em All our necks like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even half You posed to have that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch
All I remember is back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but the X Clan take this Which reminds me in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was black girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it The same color hair as 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 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 last I seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard 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, go back 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 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 little place That I once used to call home home