IRC-Galleria

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

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 bass mint
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 trying to
destroy
Let's rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of
Detroit
Crossing 8 Mile in the border in the hate 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
Okay 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

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Come on 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

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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 them dramas after
dark
To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
Thats about the time I first met Proof when poof he'd carry on
the set
Set eyes born in and out some flyers, he was doing some talent
shows
At center line, 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

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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 Boom was the brain 'cause the clan makes troops
It was rumors but man god damned 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 clam debut
Professor X and glorious 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 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, our races wit dope the x clan take this
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first
time
She was trying to 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 still a
(bitch?)

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