What we to do is deal with it these individuals are young 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 this idea that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And each generation should do a little bit
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough get it started Let's start addressing this issue and it up Let's this shit back to basement 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 me of try na destroy Let's rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the side 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 that I don't belong here You've made perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air shopping for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the white
there's a bright 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 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 this nifty little I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, 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 home sweet
I'd roam the streets so 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 from somebody's
And drop it off at the park that was the mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my 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 told him to 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 out a line and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Kane shit compound syllables sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we we'd meet again 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 this little place That I once used to call home home
Come on, 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 to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at It was cool your man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the makes troops It was rumors but man god they flew
Must a been true because man we done banned they I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like they yesterday's Guess who came through next, X Clan
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key now with this bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, African and medallions Represents black and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the with 'em All over our necks we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even black You posed to have that homie let me grab that And flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' back at basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but the X Clan take this reminds me back 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 who thought I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue and a pair of jugs The god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same
But it backfired I was supposed to her But she me for this black guy And that's the I ever seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish girl But I've heard people say heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I out a whole race and for that apologize I was wrong no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, let's go the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home