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 country at times calls if or which over
We seem to be an age of the gross We all have this that we should Move up a bit from our parents station And generation should do a little bit better
Alright, come on let's cut the bullshit enough get it started Let's start addressing this issue and it up Let's take this back to basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its 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 8 mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story This is my story and you nobody tell it for me
You have well informed me and I am well aware I don't belong here You've made that perfectly I get my ass kicked Damn near everywhere Bel-air shopping center for stopping in there from the black side All the way to the white
Okay there's a bright side, a day that I might You may call it a past I it haulin' my ass Through that patch of over them railroad tracks Oh them railroad tracks old railroad tracks Them good old oh well known tracks
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 call home sweet
on, let's go back Follow the yellow brick as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this nifty place I once used to call home sweet home
I'd roam the so much they call me a drifter Sometimes I up a thumb just to hitch hike Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van 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 back to her Mamma's on after dark To sneak me in the house I'm kicked out my Mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof n' Gary on the steps At handin' out some flyers
He was doin' some talent shows at centerline I told him to stop by and check us out He looked at me like I'm out my Shook his head like white boys know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first And we had the same rhymes that sound alike We was on the shit that big Daddy Kane shit With compound syllables sound From that day we was down to Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere the line
So, let's go Follow the yellow brick road as we go on episode with me as I take you through this nifty little place That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, let's go Follow the yellow road as we go on another episode Journey me as I take you through this nifty little place That I used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, forget that day at school It was cool till your man M C came through And said that pumas the brand 'cuz the clan troops It was rumors but man god damned they
Must a been 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 yesterday's news who came through next, X Clan debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with bein' a new trend We fit in crack as is out with cactus albums is in, African symbols and medallions Represents black power and we ain't what it meant
Me and my man Howard and butter 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 even half black You ain't posed to have that let me grab that 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 this Which reminds me in '89 me and Kim broke up for the first time She was try na two time me and there was this girl At our school who I was cool 'Cuz I rapped so she was 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 girl in our whole if I could pull it Not only I become more popular But I be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was 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 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 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 through this nifty little That I once used to call home sweet
Come on, go back the yellow brick road as we go on another episode Journey with me as I take you through this little place That I once to call home sweet home