What we have to do is with it When these individuals are young If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute this country at times calls if or which over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this that we should Move up a little bit our parents station And each generation do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it Let's start this issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can statements made on this tape and its whole original The that we all know and love
The music we all the music you all accuse me of try na destroy Let's rewind it to '89 I was a boy on the east side of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you cant tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well that I don't belong here You've made that clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air center for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the side
Okay a bright side, a day that I might slide You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them tracks them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh well known
So, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to home sweet 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 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 lift to 8 and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike from backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her on Chalmers after dark To me in the house when I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some shows at centerline high I told him to stop by and check us out He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed with first place And we both had the same rhymes sound alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy shit compound syllables sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we knew we'd again somewhere down the line
So, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham through And that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned they
Must a been true man we done banned they shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash like yesterday's news Guess who came next, X Clan debut
Professor X and exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this bein' a new We don't fit in crack as is out cactus albums Blackness is in, symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know it meant
Me and my man and butter would go to the mall with 'em All over our necks like we're 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't even black You ain't posed to have that homie let me grab And that flavor flave clock we have to snatch that
All I is meetin' back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan take Which reminds me in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two me and there was this black girl At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I rapped so she was eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even say it plus The same color as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not would I become more popular But I would be to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I ever or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But I've heard 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 'cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a
So, go back Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home