Can't Say Goodbye

I`m a man I gotta take care of my family Fighting these precious in my life I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammis 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 I guess it`s true, you can`t take the hood out a 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 brake a bound, before I was drome boy You had dreams of being a dope boy Yeah, I was runnin` from the po po Banging for the truth, 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 I know since I left that it`s gotten much worse But I`d still be there, if I couldn`t write a verse by.pLuMeS I`m a man I gotta take care of my family Fighting these precious in my life I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammis But these streets won`t say a goodbye To the the blocks that raise me, the enemies and the homies that made Me, tough enough to hang on the corners that would moul me Critics wonder if I`m tryna be the old me, But if the thing 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, 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 cops Not around now, all I got now is the homies, to teach me, how to be a man In what not, how to brake ounces in the grams ?? The reason I`m so nice with my hands ?? shit, you think I forgot, man I`m a man I gotta take care of my family Fighting these precious in my life I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammis But these streets won`t say a goodbye Thank good every day that the boy could spit And all around the world they enjoyin` my shit I know I got plenty more awards to get I got a, beautiful wife and some gorgeous kids But it wouldn`t be right if I ignore the shit They made me how I am, the music in the man Told me that I can for the world gave a damn If it wasn`t for my shit, they sayin` stick to the plan Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand Probably be doin` a dub and the ?? with my man The say leaders streets but they don`t really understand All I had was the block, when I didn`t have fans 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 carrier was to end, I`m sure my name Would live.. in the streets I`m a man I gotta take care of my family Fighting these precious in my life I know my mind should be on shining and getting grammys 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