The other man runs away, while the young man picks up his bag. The money is inferred to be stolen from the store. The man drops what he had in his hand, revealing money. The man walks into a grocery store, but at the entrance, he collides with a man running out of the store. The video shows the group and Akon performing as well as tells the story of a young man in Cleveland where the group was first formed. On December 31 of the same year, the video appeared at number 89 on BET's Notarized: Top 100 Videos of 2007 countdown. On March 7, 2007, the music video officially debuted on Yahoo! and other websites. It debuted at number eighty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 on the issue date Apand reached number six, making it the highest charting Bone Thugs-N-Harmony single in ten years. The song entered the Billboard charts in the issue dated April 7, 2007. The song follows a chord progression of D ♯m–E–F ♯–G ♯m, and the vocals in the song span from F ♯ 4 to E 5. "I Tried" is performed in the key of G ♯ minor in common time with a tempo of 82 beats per minute. Gotta get it nope, no leavin, no grudge (no grudge) today games they play gotta go hard to get what you put in, if you fall off then its all on you (on you) gotta watch what you sign too, try so hard but I won't act a fool.The song is about the struggles that the members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Akon faced on the streets. So we never leave never till the sun came up (came up) Thugstas ballin' before us I'm tryna make that major league Studied on the streets, hustlas know what I mean That I don't understand no nine to five work Got me doin' dirty dirt, so used to this hustlin money, I see thangs won't change (wont change) I'm stuck in the gameĪs soon as I get out it keeps pullin me back man (pullin me back man) It's hard to manage cause every days a challenge and manĪnd I'm slippin can't lose my balance and tryin not to panic Hustlin and gamblin, drinkin' and scramblin'Īnd losin sight of what I supposed to be handlin' Lord, would you help me? And stop this pain It's like the curse that I can't shake this part of Cleveland and
I just don't know but I be out here fightin demons and How could I create the distance when it's supposed to be close? And uh, Tryna get ahead of the game but I can't seem to get it on trackĪnd I keep runnin away the ones that say they love me the most It's like I'm takin five steps forward, and ten steps back Goin crazyyyy, (lately, lately) lately I been so faded trying to erase it,īut I just can't cause the drama just grows greater,Īnd I been in so many collisions by puttin shit off till later. I thought I was right, but really I'm wrong, but again I was too blind to see,Īnd then it seemed when the fame and cash came, they just got me, My mind be racin', and I don't even know what I'm chasin yetīeen in and out of relationships, I'm startin to see that it's me where the complications atīut I'm layin back, prayin' that, you get that piece of mind of me It Ain't my fault cause I, try to get away but trouble follows me,Īnd still I try so hard, hopin one day they'll come and rescue me,īut until then, I'll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow)īut until then, I'll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin' dough)įirst, let me explain that I'm just a black man,Īnd I come from the darkside, so I'm havin a hard time stayin on track man, Man I tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, I tried so hard, can't seem to get away from misery,
I tried hard, but I guess I gotta try harder. You know though nothin' come easy, you gotta try real, real hard