Can't Say Goodbye

[Chorus] 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 grammy's 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 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] 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 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', 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 [Chorus] [Verse 2] To the the blocks that raise me, the enemies and the homies that made me, Tough enough to hang on the corners that would mold 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 don't owe shit to the streets before they owe me Took me in when my moma 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 In what not, how to brake ounces in the grams and what not The reason I'm so nice with my hands and what not shit, you think I forgot, man [Chorus] [Verse 3] Thank good 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 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 pen 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 career was to end, I'm sure my name Would live... In the streets [Chorus] 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