What we have to do is deal it When individuals are young enough If you will, to be saved, not in a sense But not to constitute what this country at times calls if or which
We to be approaching an age of the gross We all this idea that we should Move up a little bit from our station And each generation do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the 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 and its whole original The music we all know 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 hick territory I'd like to share a story is my story 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 that perfectly clear I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere from Bel-air shopping for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the side
there's a bright side, a day that I might slide You may it a past I call it haulin' my ass Through that of grass over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad them old railroad tracks Them good old notorious oh known tracks
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another Journey with me as I take you this nifty little place I once used to call 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 nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
I'd roam the so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I stick up a just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 and Van Dyke And steal a god damn bike somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the that was the halfway mark To meet Kim had to walk to her Mamma's on Chalmers after dark To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my Thats about the I first met Proof 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 at me like I'm out my mind Shook his head like boys don't know how to rhyme
I out a line and rhymed birthday with first place And we had the same rhymes that sound alike We was on the same shit that big Kane shit With compound syllables sound From that day we was to ride we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode Journey with me as I 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 episode Journey with me as I you through this nifty little place I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at It was cool till man M C Sham came through And said that the brand 'cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned flew
Must a been true because man we done they shoes I had the new ones the J, ice land, swayed too And we just through in the trash like they yesterday's news who came 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 crack as is out with albums Blackness is in, African symbols and Represents black power and we ain't know it meant
Me and my man Howard and would go to the mall 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 clock we gon' have to snatch
All I remember is back at Manx's basement Sayin' how we this, how racist but dope the X Clan take this Which me back 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 who thought I was cool '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 was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs The bombest god damn girl in our whole if I could pull it Not only would I more popular But I would be able to piss Kim off at the time
But it I was supposed to dump her But she dumped me for black guy And that's the last I seen or heard Or spoke to the oh foolish pride But I've heard people say they the tape and it ain't that bad But it was I singled out a whole and for that apologize I was wrong 'cuz no what color a girl is she still a
So, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I used to call home 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 little That I once used to call sweet home