[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