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
 * "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

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

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