A thug changes, and love changes

and best friends become strangers

A thug changes, and love changes

(yo, uh)



Can it be, that i stayed away for too long?

Did i leave your mind when i was gone?

Baby ain't no need to pretend I aint actin live

I'm like a young-ass Michael from the Jackson Five (HEE HEEE)

But you don't feel me, the industry for years been trying to kill me

Me and my niggas stay in the cracks like roaches

Always runnin from the Raids when the cops approaches

Man my style is just too ferocious

Been spitting potent dope for years, that's why I overdoses

Now I'm gonna tell you how it all began

Before Eminem

Before all of them

I'm a tell you how they tried to play me

How my city betrayed me, made me fuckin go crazy

Made me carry the AK in the back with my base



This worlds so cold

I'm a let you know

You can't get away with tryin to steal my flow



In eighty-eight I set up shop before detroit had shock

Kid Rock never rode a bike down my block

Remember Homie the Clown?

And thats about the time ICP put it down

Detroits most wanted, K-Ice and Maistro and Smiley

I was at the Disk, spendin' bank with Gregg Riley

Even though we was movin units every day

Still gots no love or radio play

Maybe because I won't pay payola

Known in the streets for moving yoca cola

Me and my brother, trying to get up out the ghetto

Take care of my mother, cause I love her

It was no hip hop shops or freestyle battles

Only a city full of snakes that rattle

Remember "Sugar is sugar and salt is salt"

If they didnt sell records, its not my fault

I used to watch the scene with Natt Morris

I dedicate this to Detroit, now I'm a