What we have to do is deal it these individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a religious But not to constitute what this at times calls if or which over
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all have this idea we should Move up a little bit from our station And each generation do a little bit better
Alright, on let's cut the bullshit enough let's get it started Let's start addressing issue and open it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can statements Thats made on this tape and its whole The music that we all and love
The music we all enjoy the you all accuse 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 territory I'd like to share a story is my story and you cant nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware that I don't here You've made that perfectly clear I get my ass near everywhere from Bel-air shopping center Just for stopping in there from the black All the way to the side
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may call it a I call it haulin' my ass that patch of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks them old tracks good old notorious oh well known tracks
So, go back Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb to hitch hike Just to get up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the time I met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At Osborne handin' out flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a and rhymed birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the shit that big Daddy Kane 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 yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place That I once to call home sweet home
Come on, go back 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
My first year in 9th grade, can't that day at school It was cool till 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 shoes I had the new the cool J, ice land, swayed too And we just through them in the trash they yesterday's news who came through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with bein' a new trend We don't fit in crack as is out with cactus is in, African symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't know what it
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 laughed at you ain't even half black You ain't posed to have that homie let me that And that flavor flave 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 broke up for the time She was try na two time me and there was this black At our school who thought I was 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her name was even gon' say it plus The same color as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I more popular But I would be to piss Kim off at the same time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she me for this black guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or to the oh foolish pride girl But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it that bad But it was I singled out a whole and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter what color a is she still a
So, go back 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 sweet 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 used to call home sweet home