What we to do is deal with it When these are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at calls 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 station And each generation should do a little bit
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start addressing this and open it up Let's take this shit back to and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its whole The that we all know and love
The we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of try na destroy rewind it to '89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd 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 belong You've made that clear I get my ass kicked Damn near from Bel-air shopping center Just for in there from the black side All the way to the side
Okay a bright side, a day that I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that patch of grass them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks good old notorious oh well known tracks
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow 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 home
I'd roam the so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch Just to get picked up to get me a to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike from somebody's
And drop it off at the park was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on after dark To me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out some
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 know how to
I spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that sound We was on the same shit big Daddy Kane shit With syllables sound combined From that day we was down to Somehow we knew we'd again somewhere down the line
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet 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 little place That I once used to home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool your man M C Sham came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan troops It was but man god damned they flew
Must a been true man we done banned they shoes I had the new ones the cool J, ice land, too And we through them in the trash like they 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 with cactus is in, African symbols and medallions Represents power 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 like we're showin 'em off not at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even half You ain't posed to that homie let me grab that And that flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I is meetin' back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X take this Which reminds me back in '89 me and Kim up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was this girl At our who thought I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even say it plus The color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our school if I could pull it Not only would I become popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the same
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 foolish girl But I've people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole race and for apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter color a girl is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick 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
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home