[singer wails for first 0:59 of song]
[Big Daddy Kane]
It`s hard enough for a black man tryin to make it today
Strugglin to find the right way
So I say, times is hard, word to God
Recessions, depressions, the whole nine yards
That itself makes a brother wanna break
But bein an entertainer puts the icin on the cake
Cause I can remember when I looked up to Kurtis Blow
and said that`s where I gotta go
So here I am, paid in the rap trade
But still gettin played, for my darker shade
That`s not the only P-R-O-B-L-E-M
Man, that`s just the beginnin of them
For example, I can`t walk the streets alone..
.. without bein known
Don`t get me wrong, cause deep in my heart I do love it
But I can`t even dig up my nose in public, huh
MC Rell couldn`t have said it no plainer
Yeah, that`s the life of an entertainer
And the times are so hard to understand
that it makes me a troubled man
* Mister Cee cuts up Chuck D saying I got so much trouble on my mind *
[Big Daddy Kane]
I like women, but I hate womankind
Love can be just too much for the mind
Cause I`ve toured the world from state to state
and wouldn`t lay down tonight without havin a mate
Married girls in tight miniskirts
that left they husband waitin at the concert
I don`t discriminate with girls that I talk to
I take em Mello-Yello to Chocolate Yoo-hoo
But now I couldn`t find the right girl to fit me
Not even if she walked into my face and bit me
You see it`s hard to make a woman your wife
when you`ve been humpin married woman the most of your life
You better believe that`s true, word up
cause if it happened to me, then it can happen to you
I`m not tryin to say that a woman is scandalous
I`m just showin you who the troubled man is
* Mister Cee cuts up Chuck D saying I got so much trouble on my mind *
[Big Daddy Kane]
Brothers from the past..
.. in the streets of Bed-Stuy or my ?Sara J? class
Some of them are cool, some of them at times can be a bother
Thinkin I got jobs to give like Roy Rogers
I try to explain I`m not on tour yet
And they say, You think you`re all that? Yeah, I bet!
So when I see em on the solo tip
I gotta throw joints to prove my point
Just when I thought that I had the neighborhood support
here comes another battle to be fought, huh
You know they even tried to start a AIDS rumor
Diggin the kind of life, that would maybe doom a
brother of my priniciple, you`d think some of these people
would be more sensisble, because a lie like that
didn`t bring my sex flow to an end
Maaaaaaaan, I`m still gettin skins!
And the beat goes on until the thrill is gone
And life is the same old song
And maybe one day you can understand
What it`s like to be a troubled man
* Mister Cee cuts up Chuck D saying I got so much trouble on my mind *
