[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]
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
Goodbye
To the hood
Goodbye
To the streets (to my problems)
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
[Verse 1 - Snoop Dogg]
I guess it's true, you can't take the hood out da 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 sit back, break a bout before I was drome 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, get 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's
I know since I left that it's gotten much worse
But I'd still be there, if I couldn't write a verse
[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]
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
[Verse 2 - Snoop Dogg]
To the 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
Well 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 and what not
How to brake ounces into grams and what not
The reason I'm so nice with my hands and what not
Shit, you think I forgot, man
[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]
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
[Verse 3 - Snoop Dogg]
Thank good 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 ignored the shit
That made me who I am, the music and the man
Told me that I can for the world give 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 in the pen with my man
They say lead 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, my carrier was to end
I'm sure my name would live..
In the streets
[Chorus - Charlie Wilson]
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 just can't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
I can't say goodbye
goodbye
goodbye
I can't 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
