What we have to do is deal with it when these individuals are young enough. If you will, 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.(burp)
We all have this idea that we should move up a little bit from our parents station and each generation should do a little bit better.
[Verse 1 - Eminem]
Alright, 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 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 Crossin 8 Mile into Warren into hick territory I'd like to share a story, this is my story and cant nobody tell it for me You have well informed me, and 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 haulin' 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]
So, let's 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 That I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's 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 That I once used to call home sweet home
[Verse 2 - Eminem]
I'd 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 halfway mark To meet 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 mom's Thats about the time I first met Proof wit' poof and gary on the steps at Osborne handin' out some flyers He was doin some talent shows at Centerline High, I told him to stop by and check us out sometime He looked at me like I'm out my mind, Shook his head like white boys dont 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]
So, let's 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 That I once used to call home sweet home
Come on, let's 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 That I once used to call home sweet home
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school It was cool till your man MC Sham came through And said that Pumas the brand cuz the clan makes troops It was rumors but man god damned they flew Musta 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 and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green With a key sissies now with this bein a new trend We don't fit in crack