Troubled Man-Big Daddy Kane

[01:15.34]It's hard enough for a black man tryin to make it today [01:17.61]Strugglin to find the right way [01:19.17]So I say, times is hard, word to God [01:21.36]Recessions, depressions, the whole nine yards [01:23.59]That itself makes a brother wanna break [01:25.60]But being an entertainer puts the icing on the cake [01:27.64]Cause I can remember when I looked up to Kurtis Blow [01:30.22]And said that's where I gotta go [01:31.97]So here I am, paid in the rap trade [01:33.95]But still gettin played, for my darker shade [01:36.17]That's not the only P-R-O-B-L-E-M [01:38.16]Man, that's just the beginnin' of them [01:40.48]For example, I can't walk the streets alone [01:43.04]Without bein' known [01:44.40]Don't get me wrong, cause deep in my heart I do love it [01:46.35]But I can't even dig up my nose in public, huh [01:48.72]MC Rell couldn't have said it no plainer [01:50.66]Yeah, that's the life of an entertainer [01:52.68]And the times are so hard to understand [01:55.08]That it makes me a troubled man [01:56.80]"I got so much trouble.. on my mind" [02:13.49]I like women, but I hate womankind [02:15.52]Love can be just too much for the mind [02:17.65]Cause I've toured the world from state to state [02:19.44]And wouldn't lay down tonight without havin' a mate [02:21.90]Married girls in tight miniskirts [02:23.92]That left they husband waitin' at the concert [02:26.05]I don't discriminate with girls that I talk to [02:28.13]I take em Mello-Yello to Chocolate Yoo-hoo [02:30.20]But now I couldn't find the right girl to fit me [02:32.24]Not even if she walked into my face and bit me [02:34.26]You see it's hard to make a woman your wife [02:36.24]When you've been humpin' married woman the most of your life [02:38.36]You better believe that's true, word up [02:40.35]Cause if it happened to me, then it can happen to you [02:42.43]I'm not tryin' to say that a woman is scandalous [02:44.96]I'm just showin' you who the troubled man is [02:46.68]"I got so much trouble..on my mind" [03:04.07]Brothers from the past [03:05.27]In the streets of Bed-Stuy almost average in class [03:07.76]Some of them are cool, some of them at times can be a bother [03:09.83]Thinkin' I got jobs to give like Roy Rogers [03:11.96]I try to explain I'm not on tour yet [03:13.89]And they say, "You think you're all that? Yeah, I bet!" [03:16.22]So when I see 'em on the solo tip [03:18.09]I gotta throw joints to prove my point [03:20.03]Just when I thought that I had the neighborhood support [03:22.71]Here comes another battle to be fought, huh [03:24.73]You know they even tried to start a AIDS rumor [03:26.60]Diggin' the kind of life, that would maybe doom a [03:28.63]Brother of my priniciple, you'd think some of these people [03:30.87]Would be more sensible, because a lie like that [03:33.02]Didn't bring my *** flow to an end [03:35.03]Maaaaaaaan, I'm still gettin' skins! [03:37.24]And the beat goes on until the thrill is gone [03:39.23]And life is the same old song [03:41.16]And maybe one day you can understand [03:43.44]What it's like to be a troubled man [03:45.02]"I got so much trouble..on my mind"