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 grammies
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 a 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 brake a bound
before I was grown boy
you had dreams of
being a dope boy
yeah I was
runnin' from the po po
Banging for the turf
late night huntin'
puttin' me in work
good day comin'
airbrush 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 21st
I know since I left that it's
gotten much worse
but I'd still be there
if I couldn't write a verse
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 grammies
But these streets won't
say a goodbye
I can't say goodbye
To the blocks that raise 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 OG
you always addicted to the life
you just don't OD
shit 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 in what not
how to brake ounces in the
grams in what not
the reason I'm so nice
with my hands in what not
shit you think I forgot
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 grammies
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 enjoyin' 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 ignore the shit
they made me how I am
the music in the man
told me that I can
for the world gave a damn
if it wasn't for my
niggas sayin' stick to the plan
probably be a gun
instead of a pen in my hand
probably be doin' a dub
and the pen with my man
the say leaders streets
but they 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 grammies
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
