I want to make this a special tribute
To a family that contradicts the concepts
Heard the rules, but wouldn't accept
And womenfolk raised me
And I was full-grown before I knew
I came from a broken home
Sent to live with my grandma down south
When my uncles was leaving
And my grandfather had just left for heaven
They said and as every-ologist would certainly note
He was sent to Jackson, Tennessee. He thought of this town as home, rather than the harsh and cold city of New York that he later lived at. 
 Jackson  was 70 miles east of Memphis. It had been a center for cotton production (and thus slavery). The town enacted laws that restricted voting rights for blacks. Perhaps this influenced lyrical/political agenda.
On Coming From a Broken Home Pt. 1