Growing Up in the D - Page Kennedy

What up though

Ay yo, everybody had a place that they grew up

Location, they hood, they burrow, whatever you wanna call it

But I’m from Detroit, Michigan

And I just wanna reminisce for me growing up

In my hood, in my city, three-one-three

Growing up in the D in the eighties, it was crazy

Before Jay Z, before imagination got lazy

I remember Cagney and Lacey

Before iPhones, the only phone I had was my dad’s (rotary)

This is well before Jodeci, when Jojo was just a hobo

Sleeping on the boat headed to Bob-lo

Changed school more than I changed socks

Bell Aisle docks, chuck rocks at the duck flocks

Pro wrestling fights festering

'Cause I kept back breaking my boy with King Slender

Blowing in his Nintendo, peaking through the window

Tryna' see his older sister change, I remember

The Greatest American Hero, Mork and Mindy

These are the superheroes I looked up to

Practising the Junk Yard Dog moves, the Heart Foundation

With teens I literally looked up to