Story by Snoop Lion Lyrics – Big Sean
Yeah, it’s so cold in the muthafucking D. I’m talking ’bout real cold mane. I’m talking ’bout June 19-mothafuckin’-86, on the West Side off 8 Mile Road, living with my pops while he was working at a mufuckin’ post office. Right around the corner, I was working at McDonalds, getting up in the morning doing that breakfast shift. I was so cold on the mothafuckin’ eggs, they called me Young Eggs, mane. I mean I had it locked and loaded. I was gon’ *** around and go to school out there too. The coaches wanted me to come to Cooley *** and play basketball and do my thang. But you know what man, the experience I had in Detroit was a hell of an experience because it shaped me, it molded me, it grew on me. I came back from Detroit, I was new and improved. I remember I wrote me a song. I said uh, “I went to Detroit to make my move. I’m on track, now I’m back, and I’m new and improved.” That’s how I came back from Detroit, you understand me. I was new and improved. So all my folks out there in the D, it’s so mothafuckin’ cold from the West Side to the East Side. Y’all know what it is. I used to stay on Whitehill Street on the East Side too, right by the Eastland Mall, ya dig. So I mean I’m well rooted and tooted and suited and booted. Part of the D is part of the G and the LBC. This is Big Snoop Dogg. Big Sean, you know what it is. Detroit! Let’s go