(feat. Charlie Wilson, The Gap Band)    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 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 - SNOOP DOGG]  I quess it's tru, 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 turth, 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 - CHARLIE WILSON]  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    [VERSE - SNOOP DOGG]  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 moma 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    [CHORUS - CHARLIE WILSON]  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    [VERSE - SNOOP DOGG]  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 ?? 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 carrer was to end, I'm sure my name  Would live.. in the streets    [CHORUS - CHARLIE WILSON]  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