[00:01.18]What we have to do is deal with it when these idividuals are young enough.
[00:05.38]if you will, to be saved, not in a religious sense
[00:08.76]but not to constitute what this country at times calls their throwaway children.
[00:15.66]We seem to be approaching an age of the gross.
[00:20.31]We all have this idea that we should move up a little bit from our parents' nation
[00:25.25]and each generation should do a little bit better.
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[00:28.61]Come on, let's cut the bullshit enough
[00:30.21]Let's get it started, let's start addressing this issue and open it up
[00:33.76]Let's take this shit back to the basement
[00:35.41]And we can disscuss statements thats made on this tape
[00:37.86]And its whole origin of the music that we all know and love
[00:41.23]The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna destroy
[00:45.06]Let's rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit
[00:49.06]Crossin 8 Mile in the border in the hate territory
[00:51.95]I'd like to share a story,
[00:53.32]this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
[00:56.39]You have well-informed me, I am well aware that I don't belong here
[01:00.34]You've made that perfectly clear,
[01:01.81]I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
[01:04.32]From Bel-Air shopping center just for stopping in there
[01:07.48]From the black side all the way to the white side
[01:10.22]Okay there's a bright side a day that I might slide
[01:13.13]You may call it a past I call it haulin my ass
[01:16.02]Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
[01:18.79]Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
[01:21.50]Them good old notorious oh well known tracks
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[01:35.55][01:24.56]Come on lets go back
[01:37.04][01:25.92]Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
[01:41.05][01:29.73]Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
[01:43.94][01:32.75]That I once used to call home sweet home
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[01:46.84]I roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
[01:49.67]Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
[01:52.69]Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 Mile and Van Dyke
[01:56.69]And steal a god damn bike from somebody's backyard
[01:59.71]And drop it off at the park that was the half way mark
[02:02.56]To meet Kim, had to walk back to her mama's on Chalmers after dark
[02:06.88]To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
[02:09.65]That's about the time I first met Proof with Goofy Gary on the steps
[02:14.03]At Osbourne, handing out some flyers, he was doing some talent shows
[02:17.77]At Center Line High, I had told him to stop by and check this out sometime
[02:21.87]He looked at me like I'm out my mind
[02:24.00]shook his head like white boys dont know how to rhyme
[02:26.80]I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
[02:30.26]And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
[02:33.34]We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit
[02:36.34]with compound syllables sound combined
[02:38.86]From that day we was down to ride
[02:40.88]somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line
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[02:54.71][02:43.67]Come on lets go back
[02:56.27][02:45.04]Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
[03:00.23][02:48.90]Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
[03:03.10][02:51.83]That I once used to call home sweet home
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[03:05.96]My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school
[03:09.17]It was cool 'til your man MC Shan came through
[03:11.98]And said that Puma's the brand ‘cause the Klan makes Troops
[03:14.76]It was rumors, but man, goddamn, they flew
[03:17.70]Must've been true because, man, we done banned they shoes
[03:20.56]I had the new ones, the Cool J, Ice Lamb, suede too
[03:23.35]But we just threw them in the trash, like they yesterday's news
[03:26.18]Guess who came through next? X Clan debuted
[03:28.99]Professor X "vanglorious exists in a state of red, black, and green
[03:32.76]With a key, sissies! Now with this being a new trend
[03:36.51]We don't fit in, crackas is out with Cactus albums
[03:39.39]Blackness is in, African symbols and medallions
[03:42.38]Represents black power and we ain't know what it meant
[03:45.62]Me and my man Howard and Butta would go to the mall with 'em
[03:49.05]All over our necks like we're showin 'em off not knowin at all
[03:52.83]We was bein laughed at, "you ain't even half black
[03:55.74]You ain't supposed to have that, homie let me grab that
[03:58.46]And that Flavor Flave clock, we gon' have to snatch that"
[04:01.29]All I remember is meetin back at Manix's basement
[04:04.78]Sayin how we hate this, how racist but dope the X Clan's tape is
[04:08.77]Which reminds me back in 89, me and Kim broke up for the first time
[04:12.97]She was tryna two time me and there was this black girl
[04:15.99]At our school who thought I was cool
[04:17.78]cuz I rapped so she was kinda eyein me
[04:20.03]And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it plus
[04:24.80]The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs
[04:29.51]The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it
[04:33.21]Not only would I become more popular
[04:34.99]but I would be able to piss Kim off at the same time
[04:38.17]But it backfired I was supposed to dump her
[04:40.91]but she dumped me for this black guy
[04:42.92]And thats the last I ever seen or heard or spoke
[04:45.71]to the oh foolish pride girl
[04:47.66]But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad
[04:51.00]But it was I singled out a whole race and for that apologize
[04:55.45]‘Cause no matter what color a girl is, she's still a ho
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[05:10.18][04:59.78]Come on lets go back
[05:11.93][05:00.69]Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
[05:15.85][05:04.58]Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
[05:18.78][05:07.66]That I once used to call home sweet home