Can't Say Goodbye

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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)

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 running from the po po banging for the turf

Late night hunting putting me in work

Good day coming 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 twenty frist

I know since I left that it's gotten much worse

But I'd still be there if I couldn't write a verse

Oh 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 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 o g

You always addicted to the life you just don't o d

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 oh no

I'm a man I gotta take care of my family I gotta take care of

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

Thank god every day that the boy could spit

And all around the world they enjoying 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 saying stick to the plan

Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand

Probably be doing 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

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

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