List of songs about Detroit

This list of songs about Detroit contains any songs about or involving the city of Detroit.

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0-9

• "Motown Country" - CURTICE/MARKLEY & Motown Station
• "40 Hour Week" - Alabama
• "7 Mile Anthem" - Johnny King
• "8 Mile" - Eminem
• "8 Mile Boogie" - Pat Flowers
• "8 Miles" - Obie Trice
• "8 Miles And Runnin'" Jay-Z, Freeway
• "25th Floor" - Patti Smith
• "313" - Alley Life
• "21st Century Breakdown" - Green Day (The album is in the rock opera format and is about a couple who lives in Detroit)

A

• "All My Life" - Blade Icewood
• "Alive in 5D" - Gardens
• "All Summer Long" - Kid Rock
• "Amityville" - Eminem
• "Ancestors" - Oblisk
• "April in the D" - The Victorious Secrets
• "A Long Time" - Mayer Hawthorne

B

• "Baby Come Home" - Kid Rock
• "Back to Detroit" - Nikki Corvette & the Stingrays
• "Back to Detroit" - Wayne Kramer
• "Beautiful" - Eminem
• "Belle Isle Players" - Starski & Clutch
• "Be My Lover" - Alice Cooper (often mistaken as "Detroit City")
• "The Big Three Killed My Baby" - The White Stripes
• "Black Day in July" - Gordon Lightfoot
• "Bless You Boys" - Curtis Gladson and Loren Woods
• "Blessed St. Anthony" - Ty Stone
• "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
• "City of Boom" - Detroit Most Wanted
• "8Crank Dat Icewood" - Johnny King

D

• "Da East" - Niko
• "The D in Detroit" - The Anniversary
• "Dancing in the Street" - Martha and the Vandellas
• "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(That's My Home Town)" - Kim Weston
• "Detroit" - Mogue Doyle
• "Detroit" - Morgan Geist
• "Detroit" - Primal Scream
• "Detroit" - Rancid
• "Detroit" - Va-Voom
• "Detroit" - The White Stripes
• "Detroit 4 Life" - A.W.O.L.
• "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 (I Wanna Go Home)" - Bobby Bare (composed by Danny Dill)
• "Detroit City Blues" - Fats Domino
• "Detroit, Detroit" - Bugz
• "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
• "Detroit Michigan" - Ronnie Love
• "Detroit, Michigan" - The Peps
• "Detroit Moan"- Victoria Spivey
• "Detroit Niggaz" - Street Lord'z
• "The Detroit River Dirty Blues" - Michael Katon
• "Detroit Rock City" - KISS
• "Detroit Rock City Homage" - Forced Anger
• "Detroit Rock City" - Kiss
• "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 Style" - A1 People
• "Detroit Summer" - Obie Trice
• "Detroit Swing 66" - Gomez
• "Detroit Swing City" - Alien Fashion Show
• "Detroit Thang" - Kid Rock
• "Detroit Tickets" - Apoptygma Berzerk
• "Detroit Tin" - The Kursaal Flyers
• "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
• "Devil's Night" - xTyrantx
• "Devil Without A Cause" - Kid Rock
• "Doctor Detroit" - Devo
• "Don't Stop Believin'" - Journey
• "Dog Eat Dog" - Ted Nugent
• "Dope Job Homeless" - Obie Trice
• "Detroit Slums" -Back In Spades

E

• "Elizabeth Parker" - Dave Caruso

F

• "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
• "Got No Place to Go" - Migrant Kids

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
• "Hey, Hey, Hockeytown" - Red Wings
• "Hey Now (Motor City) - The Vandalias
• "Horizontal Bop" - Bob Seger
• "Hotel Yorba" - The White Stripes
• "Home Town" - Big Sean

I

• "I Am" - Kid Rock
• "I Am Detroit" - Electric Six
• "I Care About Detroit" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
• "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
• "It's So Cold in the D" - T-Baby
• "It's Still East Detroit to Me" - Kid Rock

K

• "Kill Ya Self" - Trick Trick ( DJ Drama: Welcome To Detroit Gangsta Grillz Edition )
• "Krack Rocks" ( Featuring Uncle Kracker ) - Kid Rock

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
• "Let It Fly" - Trick Trick ft.Ice Cube
• "Lighters Up" - Lil Kim
• "Life In The D" - Brendan Benson
• "Live" ( Featuring Esham ) - Kid Rock
• "The Load-Out" - Jackson Browne
• "Lose Yourself" - Eminem
• "Love For My City" - Blade Icewood ft. Juan & Jesse James

M

• "Made in Hockeytown" - Red Wings
• "Man From Detroit" - Hard Place
• "Math And Lizards In Detroit" - Andy Roberts
• "Michigan & Trumbull" - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love
• "Motor City" - The Satintones
• "Motor City Baby" - The Dirtbombs
• "Motor City Girl" - The Badways
• "Motor City Is Burning" - MC5; John Lee Hooker
• "Motor City Madhouse" - Ted Nugent
• "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 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
• "Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" - Sufjan Stevens
• "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").

Q

• "Queen of Detroit" - +/- (band)

R

• "Renaissance State of Mind" - Ro Spit & Monica Blaire
• "Represent" - Stretch Money
• "Ride" - Royce Da 5'9" ft. Big Herk & Juan
• "Rock City" - Royce Da 5'9" featuring Eminem
• "Rock & Roll" - Mitch Ryder
• "Rock N Roll Jesus" - Kid Rock
• "Roll On" - Kid Rock
• "Rollin' On The Island" ( Featuring Wes Chill And Prince Vince ) - Kid Rock

S

• "Son Of Detroit" - Kid Rock
• "Second Home" - Big A
• "Shake That" - Eminem feat. Nate Dogg
• "Shuttin' Detroit Down" - John Rich
• "Six Mile Stretch"- Sam Donahue and Ken Meisel
• "Sleepin Tonight In Detroit"- The Disregarded
• "Spaghetti a Detroit" - Fred Bongusto
• "Straight From The D" - Mr Knox
• "Stay True To Ya City" - Natas

T

• "Take His Life" - Royce da 5'9" & Tre Little
• "Taking It To Detroit" - The Good Rats - (This is about the club called Detroit, in Port Chester, NY. Not the city of Detroit, Michigan)
• "Telegraph Road" - Dire Straits
• "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

• "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 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 Never Met A Mother Fucker Quite Like Me" - Kid Rock
• "You Don't Want None of This" - A.W.O.L