(Everything you do)

(Everything you do)

(Everything you do)

(Everything)

White picket fences, green lawns

Nice, rich, expensive

College campus, so progressive

Every child advances

Lies and deception

Difference is tolerated with a few exceptions

So liberal and colorblind

You hear a beep when you cross the street

Let the bubble pop from culture shock and the cost of deceit

Off the beaten path

Reachin' in my past

How'd I get involved?

Trying to keep the Klan from speakin' on the roof of City Hall

But analyze oppression on the daily

The truth of the deuce, city that raised me and failed me

Even worse than the Klan

Still askin' why across the street from Braeburn and Forest Hills is where they built the landfill?

Colorful like Mill Creek

Most of us, we grew apart

But some of us, we still speak

Introduction to America, Bryant Elementary

Childhood friends from Stonybrook now in the penitentiary

It ain't coincidentally

Tracked before middle school as criminals

By teachers who belittled you, claimin' they liberal

By 14 most of my feminine friends raped

Many males expelled to Stone or Clemente

Detroit was another planet, broken and abandoned

We so blinded, close minded, hopin' to expand it

What part a Ann Arbor is this? (The neutral zone)

What part a Ace Deuce is this? (Elevation)

What part a Ann Arbor is this? (Pristine homes)

What part a Ace Deuce is this?

They say, "You from Ann Arbor, right?

"Oh, you had it good"

Don't get me wrong, these ain't your worse than average hoods

But there's people strugglin' here, my family included

Don't let the campus fool you

It's a whole different planet for students

Blacks we outnumbered, only a handful of us

But poverty's real for most of these fam's growin' up (Yeah)

Poverty varies, I'm sure it's worse in other places

But what makes it bad is they dangle work in front of our faces

Like there's opportunities with the U and Google here

But it's a glass ceilin' like snow globes for souvenirs

Go in the South side, you really see the patterns of races

Ypsilanti might as well be an African nation

Second class citizens

Second class living conditions

Second class schools are for second class kids to just skip in

Back in the Deuce, some of the best public schools

But so many of my homies still chose the hustler route (Why?)

And got the nerve to wanna beef and act foolishly

Knowin' our separation is only about 2 degrees

Somethin' ain't right (Uh-uh)

Somethin' ain't addin' up (Nah)

We gotta stick together 'cause we got it bad enough

What part a Ypsi is that? (My man Brown)

What part a Ypsi is that? (TMF)

What part a Ypsi is that? (Take me there)

What part a Ypsilanti is that?

Broken glass, shitty pampers, dirty needles

Nobody passes, all fail

We see the evil

Public education

Who the f**k gon' make it

Ain't nothin' change, it's the same situation

Generation drug dealers

Tell me where that leave us?

Is it just me?

'Cause everybody smokin' reefer

We take pride when we say we from the South Side

But that's small thinkin', I'm tryin' to reach worldwide

Different standards but everybody's got the answer

Makin' that Michigan's white chocolate as a dancer

The spot got hot from breakin' boulders down to rock

Crooked cops takin' money from your socks

(Yeah)

Home, sweet home (Yeah)

Where it's impossible to beat the game

**** sold they soul and told 'em keep the change

Are we to blame? (What?)

'Cause around here it's fuck them ****

Like Bush when Katrina came

Prime made the south make when they keep the thing

Wealth made **** grind in the freezin' rain (Yeah)

That's the West Side

Trust me, the East the same (Yes)

Stonybrook boys heavy like keys o' 'caine

Believe it man

This is hell y'all

It ain't college dreamland like they tell ya' (No)

South Side, Y-town, where the shells fall

**** keep answerin' when the jails call

But I rep my city, what I'ma switch fo'?

I mean, Detroit listen but this the crib though

It's all fucked up as far as this shit go

But if you ain't livin' for change then what's to live fo'? (Right)

What part a Ann Arbor is this? (The safety table)

What part a Ace Deuce is this? (Thelwell)

What part a Ann Arbor is this? (In yo' mail)

What part a Ace Deuce is this?

What part a Ypsi is that? (My man's son)

What part a Ypsi is that?

You know the ones

(Uh, uh-uh, uh-uh)

That have been ignored (Been ignored)