What we have to do is deal it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at times if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this that we should Move up a little bit from our station And each generation should do a bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it Let's addressing this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its 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 when I was a boy on the side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you nobody tell it for me
You have well 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 shopping center Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the white
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may call it a past I it haulin' my ass Through patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them old notorious oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the brick road as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this 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 with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to call home home
I'd roam the so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 and Van Dyke And steal a god bike from somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the halfway To Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the At Osborne handin' out some
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I told him to by and check us out sometime He looked at me I'm out my mind his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with place And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the same that big Daddy Kane shit With compound sound combined From day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere the line
So, let's go Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once used to call home home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to home sweet home
My first 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 makes It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a true because 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 who came 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 cactus albums Blackness is in, African symbols and Represents black power and we know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the mall 'em All over our necks like we're showin 'em off not at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even half You ain't posed to have homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim broke up for the time She was try na two time me and there was this black At our who thought 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 hers was and blue contacts and a pair of The bombest god girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I more popular But I would be able to Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to her But she dumped me for this guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or spoke to the oh pride girl But I've heard people say heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter color a girl is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home