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 shinin' and getting grammies gettin' Grammy's
But these streets won't say a goodbye

I can't say goodbye
To to the blocksenter added
Goodbye
To to the hoodenter added
Goodbye
To the streets (to my problems)
I can't say goodbye
To the hood Goodbye
To the blocks Goodbye
To to the streets
I can't say goodbye goodbye to the hood
ToGoodbye to the blocksenter added
Goodbye
To to the streets

I can't say goodbye to the blocks
Goodbye to the streets
ToGoodbye to the hood
I can't say goodbye
To to the hoodenter added
Goodbye
To to the blocksenter added
Goodbye
To to the homies

[VERSE 1 - SNOOP DOGG]
I quess it's tru, true, you can't takeenter deleted
the hood out a homeboy
Plus, my hood just lost another homeboy
Another one got life, life and we don'tenter deleted
know, if he coming comin' home boyenter added
They industry in the street tell me
"just me, "Just leave it alone boy, boy
Let them do them take care of your own boy"
But I sit said back think about,
brake a bound, before I was grown drome boy
andYou had dreams of being a dope boyenter added
Yeah, I was runnin' from the po po
Banging for the turth, turf, late night huntin'
Puttin'inPuttin' me in work, good dayenter deleted
comin', airbrush, shirt, shirt
Pay day, at get the spot, got my hair cut firstenter added
Made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church
YeahYeah, I live in the burbs, 'burbs, but I think 21st
I know since I left that it's gotten much worse
But I'd still be there, if Ienter deleted
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 shinin' and getting grammies gettin' Grammy's
But these streets won't say a goodbye
I can't say goodbye

[VERSE 2 - SNOOP DOGG]
To the the blocks that raise me
me, theThe enemies and the homies that made me
Me, toughTough enough to hang on theenter deleted
corners that would mold me
Critics wonder if I'm tryna be the old me, me

But if the think they thing the old me ever left
left, thenThen they don't really know me, me
And don't know, we don't change,
change we just become OG, you OG
You always addicted
To to the life, you just don't OD
OD,but shyt
Shit, I owe the streets beforeenter deleted
they owe me
Took me in when my moma didn't want me
want me, toTo wild to be a child, and pops cops
Not around now, all I got nowenter deleted
is the homies, to teach me, how me

How to be a man an' what not
In what not, howHow to break brake ounces in the grams and wat with what notenter added
The reason I'm so nice withenter deleted
my hands and wat what not shit,
Shit, you thinkenter deleted
I forgot, man

[CHORUS 3 - 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 shinin' and getting grammies gettin' Grammy's
But these streets won't say a goodbye
I can't say goodbye

[VERSE 4 - SNOOP DOGG]
Thank god good every day that the boy could spit
And all around the world they enjoyin' my shit
I know I got plenty more awards wars to get
I got a, a beautiful wife and some gorgeous kidsenter added
But it wouldn't be right if I ignored ignore the shit
thatThey made me who I am, the music in demand an' the man
Told me that I can for the world gave give a damn
If it wasn't for my niggas, nigga sayin' stick to the planenter added
Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand
Probably be doin' a dub in da pen [Incomprehensible] with my man
TheThey say leave dese leaders streets but theyenter deleted
don't really understand
All I had was the block, when I didn't have fans
rapped
Wrapped 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
to end,I'm sure my name
Would live.. 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 shinin' and getting grammies gettin' Grammy's
But these streets won't say aenter deleted
goodbye
I just can'tCan't say goodbye, goodbye, goodbyeenter deleted
I can't say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Goodbye Goodbye
I can't say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Goodbye Goodbye
I can't say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Goodbye Goodbye
I can't say goodbye Goodbye Goodbye

You can take the man out the streets, streets
But you can't take the streets out the man