[00:01.21]I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
[00:05.78]Fighting these pressures in my life
[00:10.97]I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
[00:15.80]But these streets won't say goodbye
[00:18.96]I can't say goodbye (to the blocks)
[00:20.97]Goodbye (to the hood) goodbye (to the streets)
[00:23.93]I can't say goodbye (to the hood)
[00:25.88]Goodbye (to the blocks) goodbye (to the streets)
[00:28.63]I can't say goodbye (to the blocks)
[00:30.85]Goodbye (to the streets) goodbye (to the hood)
[00:33.42]I can't say goodbye (to the hood)
[00:35.35]Goodbye (to the blocks) goodbye (to the homies)
[00:38.95]I guess it's true you can't take the hood out the homeboy
[00:42.21]Plus my hood just lost another homeboy
[00:44.65]Another one got life and we don't know
[00:47.35]If he coming home boy
[00:48.86]They in the street tell me just leave it alone boy
[00:50.98]Let them do them take care of your own boy
[00:53.62]But I said back break a bound before I was grown boy
[00:56.52]You had dreams of being a **** boy
[00:58.63]Yeah I was running from the po po banging for the turf
[01:01.62]Late night hunting putting me in work
[01:03.97]Good day coming airbrushed shirt
[01:06.00]Pay day got the spot got my hair cut first
[01:08.86]Made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church
[01:10.95]Yeah I live in the burbs but I think twenty frist
[01:13.84]I know since I left that it's gotten much worse
[01:15.97]But I'd still be there if I couldn't write a verse
[01:18.24]Oh I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
[01:24.37]Fighting these pressures in my life
[01:29.35]I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
[01:34.24]But these streets won't say goodbye
[01:37.14]I can't say goodbye
[01:39.21]To the blocks that raised me
[01:40.68]The enemies and the homies that made me
[01:43.24]Tough enough to hang on the corners that would mould me
[01:45.95]Critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me
[01:48.25]But if they think the old me ever left
[01:50.27]Then they don't really know me
[01:51.97]And don't know we don't change we just become o g
[01:54.94]You always addicted to the life you just don't o d
[01:58.70]I owe the streets before they owe me
[02:00.68]Took me in when my momma didn't want me
[02:02.78]To wild to be a child and pops not around now
[02:05.13]All I got now is the homies to teach me
[02:08.25]How to be a man and whatnot
[02:10.25]How to break ounces into grams and whatnot
[02:12.21]The reason I'm so nice with my hands and whatnot
[02:14.96]**** man you think I forgot oh no
[02:18.45]I'm a man I gotta take care of my family I gotta take care of
[02:22.97]Fighting these pressures in my life
[02:28.15]I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
[02:32.96]But these streets won't say goodbye
[02:35.98]I can't say goodbye
[02:36.96]Thank god every day that the boy could spit
[02:39.56]And all around the world they enjoying my ****
[02:41.87]I know I got plenty more wars to get
[02:43.95]I got a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids
[02:46.62]But it wouldn't be right if I ignored the ****
[02:49.14]That made me how I am the music and the man
[02:51.93]Told me that I can before the world gave a damn
[02:53.95]If it wasn't for my ****** saying stick to the plan
[02:56.63]Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand
[02:58.95]Probably be doing a dub and the pen with my man
[03:01.42]They say leave the streets but don't really understand
[03:03.63]All I had was the block when I didn't have fans
[03:06.63]Rapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins
[03:08.92]All I had was the homies when I didn't have kids
[03:11.34]If it all come down and my career was to end I'm sure my name
[03:14.87]Would live in these streets
[03:17.14]I'm a man I gotta take care of my family
[03:21.90]Fighting these pressures in my life
[03:26.95]I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys
[03:31.84]But these streets won't say goodbye
[03:34.96]I can't say goodbye
[03:36.96]Goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye
[03:41.90]Goodbye goodbye I cant say goodbye
[03:46.75]Goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye goodbye goodbye
[03:55.12]You can take the man out the streets
[03:57.47]But you can't take the streets out the man