Detroit

Wow, thank you, thank you, guys, so much
And how about one big hand
For a guy working for 500 dollars tonight, Mr. Louis Black

Thank you, guys, so much for coming out
And this, uh, took me 25 years to have enough say-so
To, well, "Where do you want to tape your special?
You have to go here, you have to go there"
And now, finally, I'm old enough where I go, "No, no
We're gonna go where I wanna go"
And they go, "Where do you wanna go?"
I say, "I wanna go to Detroit" (whoo!)

And they said, "Why?"
I said, "Two reasons, I'm not sure I'm fond of all of you
And I know that in Detroit, at any given moment
Something weird and bad could happen to all of you
And second of all, the people in Detroit
Perhaps for you and probably those who haven't read a newspaper
Are the most optimistic people
It -, they're still there
Do you -, do, do you understand?
They are still there

60 Minutes has covered it, 2020 has covered it
The New York Times has covered it
And what is the conversation at the dinner table?
"Well, something's gonna happen, it's gotta turn around
I mean, I don't know when, but I'm certainly not leaving yet
I have hope, I do, I mean, that Kwame Kilpatrick was crazy
But you move on, you do, you move on
And you f-, you find a better man"

I do love this city
It's, uh, and, you know, I don't know if this is progress
Uh, but normally, and, and this is my city included
We're usually flip-flop in number one and number two in murder
It's, it's usually Detroit, and then St. Louis
Which is why I feel so close to you people
I understand the element that you live with
That at any moment, shit could get weird
Just driving down the road, you don't know, things could get weird

But this year, oh, no, no, no, no, no
Number one, Flint
Yeah
I'm like, "How? How is that possible?
There's not even any people there
Are they just shooting people they drive by and counting that?
Are they, like, tricking people to Flint?"
Free money, and then they shoot 'em and go, "There is another one
We're so gonna win this year"

And I don't think it's fair that Detroit dropped to number three
Just because you've actually shot everyone
Just because you did a good job
Doesn't mean you should lose in cold ranking