Snoop Dogg: Can't say goodbye

(feat. Charlie Wilson, The Gap Band)I'm a man I gotta take care of my familyFighting these precious in my lifeI know my mind should be on shining and getting grammisBut these streets won't say a goodbyeI can't say goodbyeTo the blocksGoodbyeTo the hoodGoodbyeTo the streets (to my problems)I can't say goodbyeTo the hoodGoodbyeTo the blocksGoodbyeTo the streetsI can't say goodbye goodbyeTo the blocksGoodbyeTo the streetsGoodbyeTo the hoodI can't say goodbyeTo the hoodGoodbyeTo the blocksGoodbyeTo the homies[VERSE - SNOOP DOGG]I quess it's tru, you can't take the hood out a homeboyPlus, my hood just lost another homeboyAnother one got life, and we don't know, if he coming home boyThey 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 boyYou had dreams of being a dope boyYeah, I was runnin' from the po poBanging for the turth, late night huntin'Puttin' me in work, good day comin', airbrush, shirt,Pay day, get the spot, got my hair cut firstMade mom sick when I wouldn't go to churchYeah I live in the burbs, but I think 21stI know since I left that it's gotten much worseBut 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 familyFighting these precious in my lifeI know my mind should be on shining and getting grammisBut these streets won't say a goodbye[VERSE - SNOOP DOGG]To the the blocks that raise me, the enemies and the homies that madeMe, tough enough to hang on the corners that would moul meCritics 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 addictedTo the life, you just don't OD, I owe the streets before they owe meTook me in when my moma didn't want me, to wild to be a child, and copsNot around now, all I got now is the homies, to teach me, how to be a manIn what not, how to brake ounces in the grams ??The reason I'm so nice with my hands ?? shit, you think I forgot, man[CHORUS - CHARLIE WILSON]I'm a man I gotta take care of my familyFighting these precious in my lifeI know my mind should be on shining and getting grammisBut these streets won't say a goodbye[VERSE - SNOOP DOGG]Thank good every day that the boy could spitAnd all around the world they enjoyin' my shitI know I got plenty more wars to getI got a, beautiful wife and some gorgeous kidsBut it wouldn't be right if I ignore the shitThey made me how I am, the music in the manTold me that I can for the world gave a damn If it wasn't for my shit, they sayin' stick to the planProbably be a gun instead of a pen in my handProbably be doin' a dub and the ?? with my manThe say leaders streets but they don't really understandAll I had was the block, when I didn't have fansWrapped on the corners when I couldn't get spins All I had was the homies when I didn't have kidsIf it all come down and my carrer was to end, I'm sure my nameWould live.. in the streets[CHORUS - CHARLIE WILSON]I'm a man I gotta take care of my familyFighting these precious in my lifeI know my mind should be on shining and getting grammysBut these streets won't say a goodbyeI just can't say goodbyeI can't say goodbyeGoodbyeGoodbyeI can't say goodbyeGoodbyeGoodbyeI can't say goodbyeGoodbyeGoodbyeI can't say goodbyeGoodbyeGoodbyeYou can take the man out the streets,But you can't take the streets out the man