[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"