[Verse 1: Invincible]
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
Reaching in my past
How'd I get involved?
Trying to keep the Klan from speaking 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 asking
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, claiming they're "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, hoping to expand it
[Hook]
What part of Ann Arbor is this?
What part of Ace Deuce is this?
What part of Ann Arbor is this?
What part of Ace Deuce is this?
[Verse 2]
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 struggling 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 fams growing up
Poverty varies
I'm sure it's worse in other places
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 ceiling
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 root
Why?
And got the nerve to wanna beef and act foolishly
Knowing our separation
Is only about 2 degrees
Something ain't right
Something ain't adding up
We gotta stick together cause
We got it bad enough
[Hook]
What part of Ypsi is that?
What part of Ypsilanti is that?
What part of Ypsi is that?
What part of Ypsilanti is that?
[Verse 3]
Broken glass
Shitty pampers
Dirty needles
Nobody passes
All fear
We see the evil
Public education
Who the fuck gon' make it
Ain't nothing change
It's the same situation
Generation drug dealers
Tell me where that leave us?
Is it just me cause everybody smoking reefer?
We take pride when we say we from the south side
But that's small thinking
I'm trying to reach worldwide
Different standards
But everybody's got the answer
Making that Michigan's white chocolate is dancer ???
The spot got hot from breaking bullets down to rock
Crooked cops taking money from your socks
[Verse 4]
Home sweet home
Where it's impossible to beat the game
Niggas sold they soul
And told 'em, "Keep the change."
Are we to blame?
Cause around here
It's, "Fuck them niggas!"
Like Bush when Katrina came
Prime made the south make when they keep the thing
Wealth made the niggas grind in the freezing rain
That's the west side
Trust me, the east the same
Stonybrook boys heavy like keys o' cane
Believe it, man, this is hell, y'all
It ain't college dreamland, like they tell ya'
South side, Y-town, where the shells fall
Niggas keep answering when the jails call
But I rep my city, what I'mma switch fo'?
I mean, Detroit listens, but it's the crib, though
It's all fucked up, as far as the shit go
But if you ain't living for change
Then what's to live for?
[Hook]
What part of Ann Arbor is this?
What part of Ace Deuce is this?
What part of Ann Arbor is this?
What part of Ace Deuce is this?
What part of Ypsi is that?
What part of Ypsi is that?
You know the ones
That have been ignored