What we have to do is with it these individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at times if or which over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all this idea that we should Move up a little bit from our parents And each should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the enough let's get it started start addressing this issue and open it up Let's take shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole original The that 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 side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I don't here You've made that clear I get my ass kicked Damn near from Bel-air shopping center 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 I call it haulin' my ass Through patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place I once used 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 to call home sweet home
I'd roam the streets so much they 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 bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the halfway To meet Kim had to back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was some talent shows at centerline high 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 spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes sound alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane With compound syllables sound From day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd again somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
My year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan troops It was rumors but man god damned 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 through them in the like they yesterday's news Guess who came through next, X Clan
X and glorious 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 ain't know it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the mall 'em All over our like we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and was this black girl At our school who thought I was I rapped so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't gon' say it plus The color 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 become popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the time
But it I was supposed 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 singled out a race and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no what color a girl is she still a
So, go back the yellow brick road 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
Come on, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home