Word got around that a n***a got shot
Heard a n***a drew down' and he bucked so his a*s 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 off third and polock chilling in the back of the tracks
N***as got packs trying to get them racks
X5 I was riding in the back with the brother's' round kicking in the gat in my lap
17 had no dreams drinking four loco's Sprite and codeine
First class I was on lean said f**k highschool so I left Reed
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 every day that ain't nothing new
When you from downtown downtown
Out here tryna make a way
I won't let these n***as take me downdown down
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Phone just RANG heard a n***a got got
He was over in the East last thing that he heard six shots
He ain't gettin' no love from the cops nobody got caught
Real talk when I heard who it was heart d**n near stopped
Somebody done killed my brother now I gotta get back
Let 'em know 'cause a n***a gotta feel that
Sitting shotgun with the shot gun
When you hear the shots come n***a don't run
Already bad it can only get worse
Hand full of steel 'cause the s**t still hurts
Cut so deep when they put him in the hearse
Never saw 25 had to put him in the dirt
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 every day that ain't nothing new
When you from downtown downtown
Out here tryna make a way
I won't let these n***as take me downdown down
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Once upon a time down town in the nine
9th ward
Where they don't mind dying
Sworn to a life of crime was a youngin' that only stood 5'5
Big money on his mind clothes ain't wrinkled while his hands on his iron
Shot six times right in front of my mom
Kind of 32 man I'm lucky to survive
On a pac juice real n***as don't die
B***h I'm from Mazant slang crack on the same set
Blood stains at from a homie with his head cracked
O'Gs like A' wacks they've been doing this s**t way back since A track
And we yell where the gang at
You can get fame there from the way you're going to bang that
Shoot for the head watch how you aim that
Price on your head and we gon' take that
It's about to go down you ain't about this then you better go now
Sun going down keep it 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 round my way
This ain't nothing new you grew up downtown
People dying every day that ain't nothing new
When you from downtown downtown
I'm just trying to make a way
I won't let these n***as take me downdown down
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
So I ride
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
Riding on these n***as I be riding I be riding on 'em
