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