Word got around that a nigga got shot Heard a nigga drew down' and he bucked so his head got popped We was on my block trying to move these rocks Trying to stack this cash on the low, gotta duck these cops We was right out there on the po' block Chilling in the back of the track Niggas got packs, trying to get them racks X5 I was riding in the back with the brother's ride kicking in the cat in my lap seventeen had no dreams, drinking solo cups riding codeine First class I was so lean, said fuck high-school, so I left green.
[Hook:] No one told me life would be this way (I swear nobody told me) Guess this is the game we chose to play Crazy how it's always been the same People dying everyday, that ain't nothing new When you from downtown, downtown! I'm just trying to make a way, I won't let these niggas take me down, down, down, ri-ride Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
[Verse 2:] Phone just ring, Heard a nigga got got He was over in the East last thing that he heard six shots He ain't getting no love from the cops, nobody got caught Real talk when I heard who it was, heart damn near stopped somebody done killed my brother, now I gotta get back Let'em know cause a nigga gotta feel that! Sittin shotgun with the shotgun When you hear the shots come, nigga don't run! Already bad, it can only get worse Hand full of steel cause the shit still hurts Cut so deep when they put him in the hearse Never saw 25, had to put him in the dirt.
[Hook:] No one told me life would be this way! (I swear nobody told me) Guess this is the game we chose to play Crazy how it's always been the same People dying everyday, that ain't nothing new
When you from downtown, downtown! I'm just trying to make a way, I won't let these niggas take me down, down, down, ri-ride Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
[Kidd Kidd:] Once upon a time downtown in the night Where they don't mind dying, torn to it life of crime, was a youngin only stood 5'5 Big money on his mind, clothes ain't wrinkled while his hands on his eye. Shots six times run in front of my mind Kind of 32, man, I'm lucky to survive On that Pac juice real niggas don't die! Bitch, I'm from A tack, slang crack on the same set Blood stains at from the homie where his head cracked OG's like A-Wax that been doing this shit way back since 8 track. And we get a rider gang at You can get fame at from the way you're goin bang that Shoot for the head watch how you aim that Price on your head and we goin take that It's about to go down, you ain't about this then you better go now Sun going down, kick a door down! Everybody lay down, ski mask down! All you gonna see is my eyes and my frown Last thing you hear is my gun going Pow It happens every day around my way This ain't nothing new when you grew up downtown.
[Hook:] People dying everyday, that ain't nothing new When you from downtown, downtown! I'm just trying to make a way, I won't let these niggas take me down, down, down, ri-ride Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on