Darnell had it playin off his phone at the laundromat. I asked who it was. He said "Ollie." That's all he said. Ollie is from Simcoe, Ontario, down by Lake Erie. Here go the chorus:
So come on, let it go, just let it be
Why don't you be you, and I'll be me?
Everything that's broke, leave it to the breeze
Why don't you be you, and I'll be me?
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ollie/illbeme.html
https://genius.com/Ollie-ill-be-me-lyrics
Read it again. Slow.
For the people in the back: Canada is SOUTH of Detroit. Look it up. That's not one of mine, that's real. So when a man from Ontario sing "everything that's broke," who you think he lookin at?
"Let it go." You know who else told Detroit to let it go? Mitt Romney. Born right here at Harper Hospital, then put his name on a New York Times piece called "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." Ollie just put a beat on it.
"Why don't you be you, and I'll be me?" Translation: y'all stay over there. And I get it. The Detroit River run straight into Lake Erie. Everything this city ever flushed floated right past that man. He been downstream of us his whole life. That ain't a chorus, that's a complaint.
"Leave it to the breeze." This spring the WIND shut the People Mover down for almost two months. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/loc ... f-repairs/ I'm not sayin which way it blew. I'm sayin Canada is south of us. And this song came out in 2015. They put the plan out a DECADE early with a beat under it, and nobody in Detroit read it. Greatest city on earth.
This ain't new. 1812, they shelled Detroit from across the river and we surrendered the next day. Our general got court-martialed for cowardice. Look it up. I know how I sound. I been right like four times in one post and it's scarin me.
2019, a Canada goose chased Marcus into the Detroit River up to his knees.
We 0 and 2 against Canada. I am not goin 0 and 3 over a chorus.
And this board was WARNED. January 2025, carz2 walked in here, started a thread called "Fuck you America," and said:
Not in Detroit you ain't. Look at a map. In Detroit, Canada is the bottom.
Detroit already answered this in 2002, thirteen years before he asked. Lose Yourself. Theirs say let it go, ours say you only get one shot. But Eminem busy, so it's on me.
Sixteen bars. Bar one rhymed Windsor with Windsor. Hardest bar: "You got free healthcare? Good. You gon need it." Marcus said that's a compliment. That's how deep they in my head.
Yesterday we shot the video on the Riverwalk, phone pointed at Windsor. First time Marcus been back to that river since the goose. I did all sixteen bars at Canada. Then Marcus pulled his drawers down and mooned Windsor. Thirty-four degrees off the water. Everything that's broke, leave it to the breeze, and Marcus took it LITERAL. His ass went blue.
And a man over there walkin a little dog stopped, looked at Marcus's whole ass from a half mile away, and WAVED.
Marcus mooned him again. He waved again.
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Walkin back to the Lumina I played it one more time. When Mitt Romney said let Detroit go, Joe Biden came HERE, Labor Day 2012, and said "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." Same sentence. Same weight. That man never left nothin of ours to the breeze.
Told Big Terry the whole thing. He said "He don't know you."
I didn't ask which one.
Discuss. This goin in the set. And no, I'm NOT lettin it go.