[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 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)
[Verse 1 - Snoop Dogg]: 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 runnin' from the po po, Banging for the turf, late night huntin', puttin' me in work good day comin', 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 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
[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 Grammys But these streets won't say goodbye
[Verse 2 - Snoop Dogg]: 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 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 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?
[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 Grammys But these streets won't say goodbye
[Verse 3 - Snoop Dogg]: 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 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 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 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
[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 Grammys But these streets won't say goodbye
I just can't say goodbye
I can't say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye goodbye goodbye I cant say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye I can't say goodbye
You can take the man out the streets, but you can't take the