YELLOW BRICK ROAD
[Intro]
What we have to do is deal with it when these individuals
are young enough. If you wish to be
saved, not in a religious sense but not
to constitute what this country at times calls if or
which over. We seem to
be approaching an age of the gross. We all have this idea that we should
move
up from our parents station and each generation should do a little bit
better.
[Verse 1- Eminem]
Come on, let's cut the bullshit
enough
Let's get it started, let's start addressing this issue and open it
up
Let's take this shit back to basement
And we can discuss statements
thats made on this tape
And its whole origin of the music that we all know
and love
The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna
destroy
Let's rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of
Detroit
Crossing 8 Mile into Warren, into hick territory
I'd like to share
a story, this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
You will well
inform me, I am well aware that I don't belong here
You've made that
perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
From Bel-Air
shopping center just for stopping in there
From the black side all the way to
the white side
OK there's a bright side a day that I might slide
You may
call it a past I call it hauling my ass
Through that patch of grass over them
railroad tracks
Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them
good old notorious oh well known tracks
[Chorus x2]
So lets go
back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with
me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home
sweet home
[Verse 2- Eminem]
I roam the streets so much they
call me a drifter
Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to
get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke
And steal a god damn
bike from somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half
way mark
To meet Kim had to walk back to her mama's on Chalmers after
dark
To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
Thats about the
time I first met Proof with Goofy Gary on the steps
At Osbourne handing out
some flyers, he was doing some talent shows
At Centerline High, I had told
him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I'm out my
mind shook his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line
and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that
sound alike
We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound
syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew
we'd meet again somewhere down the line
[Chorus x2]
So lets go
back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with
me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home
sweet home
[Verse 3- Eminem]
My first year in 9th grade, can't
forget that day at school
It was cool till your man MC Shan came
through
And said that Puma's The Brand 'cause the clan makes troops
It was
rumors but man, god damn, they flew
Must've been true because man we done
banned they shoes
I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And
we just through them in the trash like they yesterday's news
Guess who came
through next, X-clan debut
Professor X vanglorious exists in a state of red,
black, and green
With a key sissies now with this being a new trend
We
don't fit in crackers is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African
symbols and medallions
Represents black power and we ain't know what it
meant
Me and my man Howard and Butter, we would go to the mall with
'em
All over our necks like we're showing 'em off not knowing at all
We
was being laughed at you ain't even half black
You ain't supposed to have
that homie let me grab that
And that Flavor Flave clock we gonna have to
snatch that
All I remember is meeting back at Manix's basement
saying how
we hate this, how racist but dope the x clan's tape is...
Which reminds me
back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two time me
and there was this black girl
At our school who thought I was cool cause I
rapped so she was kinda eyeing me
And oh the irony guess what her name was
ain't even gonna say it plus
The same color hair as hers was and blue
contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if
I could pull it
Not only would I become more popular but I would be able to
piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to dump her but
she dumped me for this black guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or
spoke to the oh foolish pride girl
But I've heard people say they heard the
tape and it ain't that bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that
apologize
I was wrong cause no matter what color a girl is she's still a
hoe
[Chorus x2]
So lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road
as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty
little place
I once used to call home sweet home
What we have to do is deal with it when these individuals
are young enough. If you wish to be
saved, not in a religious sense but not
to constitute what this country at times calls if or
which over. We seem to
be approaching an age of the gross. We all have this idea that we should
move
up from our parents station and each generation should do a little bit
better.
[Verse 1- Eminem]
Come on, let's cut the bullshit
enough
Let's get it started, let's start addressing this issue and open it
up
Let's take this shit back to basement
And we can discuss statements
thats made on this tape
And its whole origin of the music that we all know
and love
The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna
destroy
Let's rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of
Detroit
Crossing 8 Mile into Warren, into hick territory
I'd like to share
a story, this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
You will well
inform me, I am well aware that I don't belong here
You've made that
perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
From Bel-Air
shopping center just for stopping in there
From the black side all the way to
the white side
OK there's a bright side a day that I might slide
You may
call it a past I call it hauling my ass
Through that patch of grass over them
railroad tracks
Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them
good old notorious oh well known tracks
[Chorus x2]
So lets go
back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with
me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home
sweet home
[Verse 2- Eminem]
I roam the streets so much they
call me a drifter
Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to
get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and Van Dyke
And steal a god damn
bike from somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half
way mark
To meet Kim had to walk back to her mama's on Chalmers after
dark
To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
Thats about the
time I first met Proof with Goofy Gary on the steps
At Osbourne handing out
some flyers, he was doing some talent shows
At Centerline High, I had told
him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I'm out my
mind shook his head like white boys don't know how to rhyme
I spit out a line
and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that
sound alike
We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound
syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew
we'd meet again somewhere down the line
[Chorus x2]
So lets go
back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with
me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home
sweet home
[Verse 3- Eminem]
My first year in 9th grade, can't
forget that day at school
It was cool till your man MC Shan came
through
And said that Puma's The Brand 'cause the clan makes troops
It was
rumors but man, god damn, they flew
Must've been true because man we done
banned they shoes
I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And
we just through them in the trash like they yesterday's news
Guess who came
through next, X-clan debut
Professor X vanglorious exists in a state of red,
black, and green
With a key sissies now with this being a new trend
We
don't fit in crackers is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African
symbols and medallions
Represents black power and we ain't know what it
meant
Me and my man Howard and Butter, we would go to the mall with
'em
All over our necks like we're showing 'em off not knowing at all
We
was being laughed at you ain't even half black
You ain't supposed to have
that homie let me grab that
And that Flavor Flave clock we gonna have to
snatch that
All I remember is meeting back at Manix's basement
saying how
we hate this, how racist but dope the x clan's tape is...
Which reminds me
back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two time me
and there was this black girl
At our school who thought I was cool cause I
rapped so she was kinda eyeing me
And oh the irony guess what her name was
ain't even gonna say it plus
The same color hair as hers was and blue
contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if
I could pull it
Not only would I become more popular but I would be able to
piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to dump her but
she dumped me for this black guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or
spoke to the oh foolish pride girl
But I've heard people say they heard the
tape and it ain't that bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that
apologize
I was wrong cause no matter what color a girl is she's still a
hoe
[Chorus x2]
So lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road
as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty
little place
I once used to call home sweet home