What we have to do is with it When 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 have this idea we should Move up a little bit from our parents And each should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit let's get it started Let's start addressing this issue and it up Let's take this shit back to basement and we can statements Thats made on this tape and its original The music that we all know and
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 side of Crossin' 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a 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 made that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air shopping Just for stopping in there from the black 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 tracks them old railroad tracks Them old notorious oh well known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the yellow 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 home
I'd the streets so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And it off at the park that was the halfway mark To Kim had to walk back to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my about the time I first met Proof n' Goofy Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at high I him to stop by and check us out sometime He looked at me I'm out my mind his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and birthday with first place And we both had the same rhymes that alike We was on the same shit that big Daddy shit With compound sound combined that day we was down to ride Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere the line
So, let's go the yellow brick 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
Come on, go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through nifty little place That I once used to home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C Sham came And said pumas the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned 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 through them in the trash like they yesterday's Guess who through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and exists in a state of red, black, and green a key sissies now with this bein' a new trend We don't fit in as is out with cactus albums Blackness is in, African symbols and Represents black power and we ain't know what it
Me and my man Howard and butter would go to the mall 'em All over our necks like 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 flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin' at Manx's basement Sayin' how we hate this, how racist but the X Clan 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 school who thought I was 'Cuz I so she was kinda eying me
And oh the irony guess what her was ain't even gon' say it plus The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a of jugs The bombest god girl in our whole school if I could pull it Not only would I more 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 this guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or spoke to the oh pride girl But I've heard people say they the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I out a whole race and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no matter what color a is she still a
So, go back 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 home sweet home
Come on, go back Follow the brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place That I once used to call home home