[Hook: Tree]
(Lo) Lord don't let me die a man
Lord don't let me die a man (x3)
[Verse 1: Tree]
While I'm out in Harlem
My Louis' scuff my Prada
Kept with white b**hes who bottom
50 for the the bottle
50 for a bottle
Cost you 30 in Chicago
Or 20 in Milwaukee (sh**)
I started with them [?]
So I'm always in the hood somewhere
When I relate to the bottom
And I swore to keep it ghetto
Like I'm f**ing without condoms
Like I'm serving in them buildings
Send my b**h to go get me dimes
I'm so different, I'm Obama
But the drama, baby mama (mama)
[Hook: Tree]
(Lo) Lord don't let me die a man
Lord don't let me die a man (x3)
[Verse 2: Tree]
I was looking out the window
Hustling with them big folks
My brother's no Nintendo
I just want to be down
He don't want me to be close
I wanted to be one
He told me 'no, Tree, no'
Guess that's where we G-O
I separate, and now I'm C-O
Ain't you proud of me now?
Love your brother tried to be old
Now [?] my only brother I speak to
And he answer
Damn, they tell me
Suge got cancer
Damn, Suge got cancer
[Hook: Tree]
(Lo) Lord don't let me die a man
Lord don't let me die a man (x3)
[Verse 3: Tree]
(Tree)
I ain't never been afraid to leave
It seems I've been too scared to live
(Damn, damn) The arguments and everything
f** a deal if I can make you healthy, keep you here
Blood brother, brother of mine
Gave me my one and only tattoo back in '89
Sold me my first whip, [?] was an 89
Left me like life, must've phoned you about 80 times
Like old times
[Hook: Tree]
(Lo) Lord don't let me die a man
Lord don't let me die a man (x3)
[Verse 4: Tree]
Darryl said to Carson 'Won't you n***as visit?'
Homies seen you in the streets and said you n***as living
When we was young and dumb you couldn't tell us apart
Got to sticking n***as up all the way up north
Now a n***a independent and you won't show your heart
Show me love, love your blood
I got a year to go, I could get out
You owe me cuz
Blood cousin, no cousin of mine
Whether we on the hill -Lord don't let me die a man- or we in the ground
[Hook: Tree]
(Lo) Lord don't let me die a man
Lord don't let me die a man (x3)
[Outro]
Baby. baby
Baby, baby