Can't Say Goodbye

[Hook: Charlie Wilson]

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

Fighting these pressures in my life

I know my mind should be on shinin' and gettin' Grammy's

But these streets won't say goodbye

[Intro: Charlie Wilson] (Snoop Dogg)

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)

[Verse 1]

I guess it's true, you can't take the hood out the homeboy

Plus my hood just lost another homeboy

Another one got locked, and we don't know

If he comin' home boy

The industry tell me, just leave it alone boy

Let them do them, take care of your own boy

But I sit back, think about, before I was grown boy

Then had dreams of bein' a doe boy

Yeah I was runnin' from the po-po, bangin' for the turf

Late night huntin', puttin' in work

Hood day comin', airbrushed shirt

Payday at the spot, got my haircut first

Made mom sick when I wouldn't go to church

See I live in the 'burbs but I think 21st

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

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

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

To the blocks that raised 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 tryin' to be the old me

But if they think the old me ever left

Then they don't really know me

And gon' know we don't change, we just become O.G

You always addicted to the life, you just don't O.D

But shit, I owe the streets before they owe me

Took me in when my mama didn't want me

Too wild to be her child, and pops not around

Now all I got now is the homies

To teach me, how to be a man and what not

How to break ounces into grams and what not

The reason I'm so nice with my hands and what not

Shit, you think I forgot? Nah

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

Thank God 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 ignored the shit

That made me who 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 sayin' stick to the plan

Probably be a gun instead of a pen in my hand

Probably be doin' a dub in the pen with my man

They say leave the streets but they 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 came down, my career was to end

I'm sure my name would live, in these streets

[Hook]