I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
Fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye (to the blocks)
Goodbye (to the hood) goodbye (to the streets)
I can't say goodbye (to the hood)
Goodbye (to the blocks) goodbye (to the streets)
I can't say goodbye (to the blocks)
Goodbye (to the streets) goodbye (to the hood)
I can't say goodbye (to the hood)
Goodbye (to the blocks) goodbye (to the homies)
I guess it's true you can't take the hood out the homeboy
Plus my hood just lost another homeboy
Another one got life and we don't know
If he coming home boy
They in the street tell me just leave it alone boy
Let them do them take care of your own boy
But I said back break a bound before I was grown boy
You had dreams of being a dope boy
Yeah I was running from the po po banging for the turf
Late night hunting putting me in work
Good day coming airbrushed shirt
Pay day got the spot got my hair cut first
Made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church
Yeah I live in the burbs but I think twenty frist
I know since I left that it's gotten much worse
But I'd still be there if I couldn't write a verse
Oh I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
Fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye
To the blocks that raised me
The enemies and the homies that made me
Tough enough to hang on the corners that would mould me
Critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me
But if they think the old me ever left
Then they don't really know me
And don't know we don't change we just become o g
You always addicted to the life you just don't o d
I owe the streets before they owe me
Took me in when my momma didn't want me
To wild to be a child and pops not around now
All I got now is the homies to teach me
How to be a man and whatnot
How to break ounces into grams and whatnot
The reason I'm so nice with my hands and whatnot
Shit man you think I forgot oh no
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family I gotta take care of
Fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye
Thank god every day that the boy could spit
And all around the world they enjoying my shit
I know I got plenty more wars to get
I got a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids
But it wouldn't be right if I ignored the shit
That made me how I am the music and the man
Told me that I can before the world gave a damn
If it wasn't for my niggas saying stick to the plan
Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand
Probably be doing a dub and the pen with my man
They say leave the streets but don't really understand
All I had was the block when I didn't have fans
Rapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins
All I had was the homies when I didn't have kids
If it all come down and my career was to end I'm sure my name
Would live in these streets
I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
Fighting these pressures in my life
I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
But these streets won't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye
Goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye
Goodbye goodbye I cant say goodbye
Goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye goodbye goodbye
You can take the man out the streets
But you can't take the streets out the man