# List of songs about Detroit

This list of songs about Detroit contains any songs about or involving the U.S. city of Detroit.
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* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
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* U
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* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## 0-9

* "40 Hour Week" - Alabama
* "8 Mile" - Eminem
* "8 Mile Boogie" - Pat Flowers
* "8 Miles" - Obie Trice
* "8 Miles And Runnin'" – Jay-Z and Freeway
* "25th Floor" - Patti Smith
* "313" - Alley Life
* "313" - Eminem and Eye-Kyu

## A

* "A Long Time" - Mayer Hawthorne
* "Alive in 5D" - Gardens
* "All American Man" - KISS
* "All My Life" - Blade Icewood
* "All Over the World" - ELO
* "American Bad Ass" - Kid Rock
* "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 rap rock
* "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
* "Bitch Please II" - Eminem
* "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
* "Buried in Detroit" - Mike Posner
* "BMF" - SZA

## 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
* "Country Grammar" – Nelly
* "Crank Dat Icewood" - Johnny King

## D

* "Da East" - Niko
* "The D in Detroit" - The Anniversary
* "Dancing in the Street" - Martha and the Vandellas (1964) (#2 Billboard Hot 100)
* "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" - Tyler Childers
* "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 Drive" - Eliza Neals
* "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 Murderous" - Big Hoodoo (from the album 'Crystal Skull')
* "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 neo-soul, 2010
* "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
* "Diet Coke" - Pusha T
* "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
* "Detroit Rock & Roll" - Frijid Pink
* "Doctor Detroit" - Devo

## E

* "Eastern Market" - Yusef Lateef
* "Elizabeth Parker" - Dave Caruso

## F

* "forty hour week" - Alabama
* "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
* "Feel Older Now" - Flo & Eddie

## G

* "Geography" - Lali Puna
* "Ghetto Zone" - Inner City Posse
* "Gangster Funk" Prince Vince and the Hip Hop Force
* "God Bless the USA" – Lee Greenwood
* "Going Back to Motown" - John Palumbo
* "Got No Place to Go" - Migrant Kids
* "Guap" - Big Sean From Hall of Fame 2012
* "Gone Long Gone" - Frijid Pink
* "Great Time in Detroit" - Harmonie Park
* "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin" - Adrenalin

## 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
* "Hard Scratch Pride" - Whitey Morgan and the 78's
* "Heaven" - Uncle Kracker (featuring Kid Rock and Paradime)
* "Hello, Detroit" - Daniel Boaventura
* "Hello, Detroit" - Sammy Davis Jr.
* "Hello, Detroit" - Sonny Turner
* "Here At Home (In Detroit City)" - Stony Creek
* "Hillbilly Highway" - Steve Earle
* "Hockeytown" - Joe Lynn Turner
* "Hokus Pocus"- Insane Clown Posse
* "Horkenbach Blues (Why is Everyone Discriminatin' 'gainst Me?)" - The Dennis Horkenbach Trio
* "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
* "Hypnotize (The Notorious B.I.G. song)" - Notorious B.I.G

## 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" - Delta Twins ( https://deltatwins.bandcamp.com/track/in-detroit-2 )
* "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

* "LafaLetItRock. Bob Segerette 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
* "Lipstick" - Kip Moore
* "Live" ( Featuring Esham ) - Kid Rock
* "The Load-Out" - Jackson Browne
* "Lose Yourself" - Eminem from 8 Mile, 2002, video shows the Ambassador Bridge
* "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 Country" - CURTICE/MARKLEY & Motown Station
* "Motown Music" - Rod Stewart 1991 (#10 on Billboard Hot 100)
* "Motown Junk" - Manic Street Preachers (Welsh band)
* "Motown Never Sounded So Good" - Less Than Jake
* ”Movin’ Along (A Song For Detroit)” - Alma Smith
* "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)
* "Northern Soul"- Above and Beyond (band)

## O

* "Ode To Detroit" - Wally Pleasant
* "The Old Stuff" - Garth Brooks
* "One Piece At A Time" - Johnny Cash
* ”One Woman Army - Porcelain Black
* "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 (#1 UK Singles Chart)
* "Planet of Visions" - Kraftwerk
* "Please II" - Eminem
* "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
* "Pride of the Wolverines" - John Philip Sousa

## 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
* "Rose Darling" - Steely Dan

## S

* "So Detroit"- Slight Return feat. The A.I. Fam wsg Tony "T Money" Green
* "Say Nice Things About Detroit" - They Might Be Giants
* "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
* "Shake Your Detroit Right" - Slight Return feat. George Clinton
* "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
* "Son Of Detroit" - Kid Rock
* "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
* "Take Money To Make Money" - Stretch Money
* "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 Girl from Detroit City - Suzi Quatro
* "The Heart of Rock & Roll" - Huey Lewis & the News
* "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)
* "Turn It Up" - Texas Hippie Coalition ("Darling Nikki was from 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 2002
* "You Don't Want None of This" - A.W.O.L