List of songs about Detroit
This list of songs about Detroit contains any songs about or involving the U.S. city of Detroit.
0-9
    
- "40 Hour Week" - Alabama[1]
 - "8 Mile" - Eminem[2]
 - "8 Mile Boogie" - Pat Flowers[3]
 - "8 Miles" - Obie Trice
 - "8 Miles And Runnin'" – Jay-Z and Freeway
 - "25th Floor" - Patti Smith
 - "313" - Alley Life
 
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[4]
 - "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
 
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[5]
 - "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[6]
 - "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[7]
 - "Pride of the Wolverines" - John Philip Sousa[8]
 
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[9]
 - "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[10]
 
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
 
References
    
- "Hello Detroit auto workers, [...] You work a forty hour week for a livin', just to send it on down the line", mentioning of this city, was done in their music video song.
 - "Why it was [...] Detroit's city limits It's different and it's a certain significance. A certificate of authenticity." mentioning of Detroit city, in 8 Mile song, by Eminem.
 -  Inc, Nielsen Business Media (1943-08-28). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 
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