What we have to do is with it When these are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this country at times calls if or over
We seem to be approaching an age of the We all have this that we should Move up a little bit from our parents And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start this issue and open it up Let's this shit back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats on this tape and its whole 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 east of Detroit Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a This is my and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have informed me and I am well aware that I don't belong here You've made perfectly clear I get my ass kicked near everywhere from Bel-air shopping center Just for in there from the black side All the way to the white
Okay there's a bright side, a day I might slide You may call it a past I call it my ass Through that of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old tracks Them good old notorious oh 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 call sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to call home home
I'd roam the streets so much they call me a Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn from somebody's backyard
And it off at the park that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk 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 n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne out some flyers
He was doin' some talent at centerline high I told him to stop by and check us out He looked at me I'm out my mind Shook his head like white don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the same that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy Kane With compound sound combined From that day we was to ride Somehow we we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, 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 used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I once used to call home home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham came And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes It was but man god damned they flew
Must a true because man we done banned they shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just 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 bein' a new We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums 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 mall 'em All over our necks we're showin 'em off not knowin' at all We was bein' laughed at you ain't half black You posed to have that homie let me grab that And that flavor flave clock we gon' have to snatch
All I remember is back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how but dope 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 was this black girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was kinda me
And oh the irony guess what her name was even gon' say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I could it Not only would I become popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And that's the last I ever or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say 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, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little That I used 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 That I once used to call sweet home