List of songs about Detroit

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"Motown Country" - CURTICE/MARKLEY & Motown Station

"40 Hour Week" - Alabama

"7 Mile Anthem" - Johnny King

"8 Mile" - Eminem 2002

"8 Mile Boogie" - Pat Flowers

"8 Miles" - Obie Trice

"8 Miles And Runnin'" Jay-Z, Freeway

"25th Floor" - Patti Smith

"313" - Alley Life

A

"A Long Time" - Mayer Hawthorne

"Alive in 5D" - Gardens

"All My Life" - Blade Icewood

"All Over the World" - ELO

"All Summer Long" - Kid Rock ("it was summertime in northern Michigan")

"Amityville" - Eminem from The Marshall Mathers LP 2000

"Anaconda" - Nicki Minaj

"Ancestors" - Oblisk

"April in the D" - The Victorious Secrets

"RGF Island" - Fetty Wap

B

"Baby Come Home" - Kid Rock

"Back to Detroit" - Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays

"Back to Detroit" - Wayne Kramer

"Back to Detroit (Motor City Remix)" - Beatdrum

"Backyard War" - Achromatik

"Beautiful" - Eminem 2009

"Belle Isle Players" - Starski & Clutch

"Be My Lover" - Alice Cooper (often mistaken as "Detroit City")

"The Big Three Killed My Baby" - The White Stripes from The White Stripes (album) 1999

"Black Day in July" - Gordon Lightfoot (from Canada)

"Bless You Boys" - Curtis Gladson and Loren Woods

"Blessed St. Anthony" - Ty Stone

"Blowing Up Detroit" - John Palumbo

"Born in Detroit," The Rockets

"Broke in Detroit (Again)" - The Dirtbombs

"Broken Man" - The Von Bondies

C

"Cadillac Assembly Line" - Albert King

"Can't Tame The Lion" - Journey

"Christmas Eve on Woodward Avenue" - Karen Newman

"C-I-T-Y" - John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band

"City of Boom" - Detroit Most Wanted

"Crank Dat Icewood" - Johnny King

D

"Da East" - Niko

"The D in Detroit" - The Anniversary

"Dancing in the Street" - Martha and the Vandellas 1964

"Detroit (Born + Raised)" - André DeJuan, from his upcoming third studio album, I'm Not Me

"Detroit" - (from the Disney film, The Happiest Millionaire, introduced by John Davidson)

"Detroit" - David Reo

"Detroit" - Eddie "Guitar" Burns

"Detroit" - Esham (featuring TNT)

"Detroit" - Fireworks

"Detroit" - Laurent Garnier

"Detroit" - Green Concorde

"Detroit" - Ian Hunter

"Detroit"- Injecting Strangers

"Detroit (That's My Home Town)" - Kim Weston

"Detroit" - Mogue Doyle

"Detroit" - Morgan Geist

"Detroit" - Pato Margetic

"Detroit" - Primal Scream

"Detroit" - Rancid

"Detroit" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Detroit" - Royce Da 5'9"(featuring Travis Barker)

"Detroit" - Va-Voom

"Detroit" - Spring King

"Detroit 4 Life" - A.W.O.L.

"Detroit 101" - City Squad

"Detroit 101" - Esham

"Detroit 442" - Blondie

"Detroit '67" - Sam Roberts Band

"Detroit Blues" - Diana Krall; Vince Benedetti

"Detroit Blues" - Tampa Red

"Detroit Breakdown" - The Bellrays

"Detroit Breakdown" - The J. Geils Band

"Detroit Breakdown" - The Gories

"Detroit City" - Alice Cooper

"Detroit City" - LetricKramer

"Detroit City (I Wanna Go Home)" - Bobby Bare (composed by Danny Dill)

"Detroit City" - Sonny B

"Detroit City" - Texas

"Detroit City Blues" - Fats Domino

"Detroit, Detroit" - Bugz

"Detroit, Detroit" - Erik Koskinen

"Detroit Diesel" - Alvin Lee

"Detroit Girl" - Raphael Saadiq

"Detroit Girls" - Starz

"Detroit Has a Skyline" - HiFi Handgrenades

"Detroit Has a Skyline" - Superchunk

"Detroit Iron" - The Darts

"Detroit Jump" - Big Maceo Merriweather

"Detroit Lady" - Motor City Josh

"Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" - Sufjan Stevens from Michigan (album) 2003

"Detroit Michigan" - Ronnie Love

"Detroit, Michigan"- Kid Rock from Rebel Soul 2012

"Detroit, Michigan" - The Peps

"Detroit Moan"- Victoria Spivey

"Detroit Niggaz" - Street Lord'z

"The Detroit River Dirty Blues" - Michael Katon

"Detroit Rock City" - KISS 1976

"Detroit Rock City Homage" - Forced Anger

"Detroit Special" - Big Bill Broonzy

"Detroit Sound" - Soul Designer

"Detroit Stand Up" - Ray O'Shea (featuring Big Herk, BO$$, Phohessuain, Esham, Malik (Eddie Kain), Al Nuke & Proof)

"Detroit State of Mind - Elzhi

"Detroit Style" - A1 People

"Detroit Summer" - Obie Trice

"Detroit Sunrise"- Dwele

"Detroit Swing 66" - Gomez

"Detroit Swing City" - Alien Fashion Show

"Detroit Thang" - Kid Rock

"Detroit Tickets" - Apoptygma Berzerk

"Detroit Tin" - The Kursaal Flyers

"Detroit Vs. Everybody" - Eminem and others from Shady XV 2014

"Detroit was Built on Secrets"- Search the City

"Detroit Waves" - Matt Nathanson

"Detroit Women" - Stacia Petrie

"Detroit Winter - Platinum Pied Pipers (featuring MC Invincible)

"Detroit Zoo" - Disco D

"Detroiter, Part 2" - Bantam Rooster

"Devil's Night" - D12 2001, horrorcore

"Devil's Night" - Sonny B

"Devil Without A Cause" - Kid Rock

"Doctor Detroit" - Devo

"Don't Stop Believin'" - Journey ("born and raised in south Detroit")

"Don't Shut Em Down" - Flogging Molly

"Dog Eat Dog" - Ted Nugent

"Dope Job Homeless" - Obie Trice

"Detroit Slums" -Back In Spades

E

"Eastern Market" - Yusef Lateef

"Elizabeth Parker" - Dave Caruso

F

"Fire Editorial" - The Mountain Goats

"For The D" - Guilty Simpson

"Foul Mouff" - Paradime (featuring Kid Rock)

"Fuck Off" -Kid Rock (featuring Eminem)

"From The D" -Eminem, Trick Trick, and Kid Rock

G

"Geography" - Lali Puna

"Ghetto Zone" - Inner City Posse

"Gangster Funk" Prince Vince and the Hip Hop Force

"Going Back to Motown" - John Palumbo

"Got No Place to Go" - Migrant Kids

"Guap" - Big Sean 2012

H

"Halloween On Military Street" - Insane Clown Posse

"Hand Springs" - The White Stripes

"Hands Up For Detroit" - Matthew Dear (co-produced by ghettotech pioneer Disco D)

"Happy Dagger - Millions Of Brazilians

"Heaven" - Uncle Kracker (Featuring Kid Rock & Paradime)

"Hello, Detroit" - Daniel Boaventura

"Hello, Detroit" - Sammy Davis, Jr.

"Hello, Detroit" - Sonny Turner

"Here At Home (In Detroit City)" - Stony Creek

"Hockeytown" - Joe Lynn Turner

"Hokus Pocus"- Insane Clown Posse

"Horribly Horrifying" -Violent J

"Hey Now (Motor City) - The Vandalias

"Horizontal Bop" - Bob Seger from Against the Wind 1980

"Hotel Yorba" - The White Stripes 2001

"Home Town" - Big Sean

Hometown" - Mitch Ryder from Naked But Not Dead

I

"I Am" - Kid Rock

"I Am Detroit" - Electric Six

"I Care About Detroit" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

"I Love Detroit" - Amboy Rambler

"I Wanna Go Back" - Kid Rock

"In Detroit" ( Featuring TNT ) - Esham

"In The City" - Marquise Porter

"In Thee" - Blue Öyster Cult

"Inmates" - The Good Life

"Inner City Blues" - Rodriquez, aka Sixto Diaz Rodriguez

"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" - Marvin Gaye from What's Going On 1971

"Intro" - Kid Rock

"It's Been A Long Time" - Mayer Hawthorne

"It's Still East Detroit to Me" - Kid Rock

"It's So Cold in the D" - T-Baby

K

"Kill Ya Self" - Trick Trick ( DJ Drama: Welcome To Detroit Gangsta Grillz Edition )

"Krack Rocks" ( Featuring Uncle Kracker ) - Kid Rock 1996

L

"Lafayette Blues" - The White Stripes ( Features names of Detroit streets )

"Landing In Detroit" - The Detroit Grand Pubahs

"Last Time I Saw Richard, The" - Joni Mitchell

"Leaving Detroit" - Roses Are Red

"Leaving Detroit" - Eliza Neals

"Let It Fly" - Trick Trick ft.Ice Cube

"Lighters Up" - Lil' Kim

"Lightning Over Detroit" - Richard Madow

"Life In The D" - Brendan Benson

"Live" ( Featuring Esham ) - Kid Rock

"The Load-Out" - Jackson Browne

"Lose Yourself" - Eminem from 8 Mile, 2002

"Love For My City" - Blade Icewood ft. Juan & Jesse James

"Line #7" - Dierks Bentley

M

"Made in Hockeytown" - Red Wings - Paul Shonk http://www.paulshonk.com/

"Man From Detroit" - Hard Place

"Moths And Lizards In Detroit" - Andy Roberts

"Michigan & Trumbull" - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love

"Motor City" - The Satintones

"Motor City" - Randy Weeks

"Motor City Baby" - The Dirtbombs

"Motor City Boogie" - York Brothers

"Motor City Girl" - The Badways

"Motor City Is Burning" - MC5; John Lee Hooker

"Motor City Madhouse" - Ted Nugent 1975

"Motor City Serenade" - Stewart Francke

"Motortown" - Kane Gang

"M.O.T.O.W.N. ( Murderous Outcold Town Of Wild Niggaz )" - Big Herk

"Motown Music" - Rod Stewart

"Motown Junk" - Manic Street Preachers (Welsh band)

"Motown Never Sounded So Good" - Less Than Jake

"Move To Detroit" - Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes

"Murder City Nights" - Radio Birdman

N

"Need Somebody" - Subdudes

"New Detroit" - Neon Blonde

"Nobody in Detroit" - Howling Diablos

"New Nathans Detroit"- Braid (band)

O

"Ode To Detroit" - Wally Pleasant

"The Old Stuff" - Garth Brooks

"One Piece At A Time" - Johnny Cash

"One Way Out" - thenewno2

"Out" - Insane Clown Posse

P

"Paid" - Kid Rock

"Panic In Detroit" - David Bowie

"Papa Hobo" - Paul Simon

"Party on 4th Street" - Black Nasty (available on the "Funky Funky Detroit" compilation)

"Passport to Detroit" - Joe Strummer

"Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" - Fedde Le Grand

"Posse On Verner* - Insane Clown Posse

"the Power's Out" -Flogging Molly

"Peacemaker" - Green Day (The song is part of a rock opera album which takes place in Detroit. The lyric "I am a killjoy, from Detroit"). 21st Century Breakdown

Q

"Queen of Detroit" - +/- (band)

R

'Rainin in Detroit" - Eliza Neals

"Renaissance State of Mind" - Ro Spit & Monica Blaire

"Represent" - Stretch Money

"Reputation" - Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson

"Ride" - Royce Da 5'9" ft. Big Herk & Juan

"Rise Again" - Hush

"Rock City" - Royce da 5'9" featuring Eminem

"Rock & Roll (The Velvet Underground song)" - Detroit (band)

"Rock N Roll Jesus" - Kid Rock

"Roll On (Kid Rock song)" - Kid Rock 2008

"Rollin' On The Island" ( Featuring Wes Chill And Prince Vince ) - Kid Rock

S

"Son Of Detroit" - Kid Rock

"South Telegraph Rd" - Amboy Rambler

"Second Home" - Big A

"Seized Up" - The Suicide Machines

"Shake That" - Eminem feat. Nate Dogg

"Shuttin' Detroit Down" - John Rich

"Sister" - Sufjan Stevens

"Six Mile Stretch"- Sam Donahue and Ken Meisel

"Sleepin Tonight In Detroit"- The Disregarded

"So Far..." - Eminem

"Southwest Song" - Insane Clown Posse

"Spaghetti a Detroit" - Fred Bongusto

"Straight From The D" - Mr Knox

"Stay True To Ya City" - Natas

"She Was Hot" - The Rolling Stones

T

The D- Slight Return

"Take His Life" - Royce da 5'9" & Tre Little

"Taking It To Detroit" - The Good Rats -

"Telegraph Road" - Dire Straits (from UK)

"That's Detroit To Me" - King Gordy

"The Arms Forest" - The Hard Lessons

"The D In Detroit" - Anniversary

"The Fire Inside - Bob Seger

"The Smog" - Insane Clown Posse

"These Hands (song for Detroit)" - Jason Roseboom

"There They Go" - Obie Trice ( Featuring Eminem And Big Herk )

"This One Or That One" - Tyvek

"Tooling For Anus" - The Meatmen ( Chorus mentions Detroit and suburban clubs such as, 'Bookies', 'Nunzio's' and 'Menjo's'. )

"Tommy Pays the Rent" - Manolete (Mentions growing up in Michigan and Detroit)

U

"U Can Get Fucked Up" - Trick Trick (featuring Goon Sqwad)

"Up on Twelfth Street" Sir Mack Rice

W

Welcome To The D- Slight Return

"W.T.P. (White Trash Party)" - Eminem

"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Gil Scott-Heron

"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Natas

"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Marquise Porter

"Welcome 2 Detroit" - Trick Trick ( Featuring Eminem )

"Welcome 2 The Party" - Kid Rock

"Welcome Back To Detroit - Mariner

"Welcome To Detroit" - Jay-Dee

"Welcome To Detroit" - Eminem

"Welcome To Detroit City" - Obie Trice

"What I Learned Out On The Road" - Kid Rock

"Where My Nigz At ?" - Esham

"Where the Money Is Made" Detroit Most Wanted

"Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, The" - Gordon Lightfoot

"Worse Than Detroit" - Robert Plant

"Who's Afraid of Detroit" - Claude VonStroke

Y

"Yellow Brick Road" - Eminem

"You Can Make It" - Achromatik feat. Royce da 5'9"

"You Never Met A Mother Fucker Quite Like Me" - Kid Rock

"You Don't Want None of This" - A.W.O.L