Word got around that a ^!$$% got shot
Heard a ^!$$% drew down' and he bucked so his $$# 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 3rd and Pollock chillin' in the back of the track,
^!$$%s got packs, trying to get them racks

X5 I was riding in the back with the brother's' round kicking with the gat in my lap
17 had no dreams, drinking 4 LOKO,
Sprite and codeine

First class I was so lean, then $#&@ high-school,
so I left green
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

Out'chea trying to make a way,
I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown
Ridin' on these ^!$$%s, I be ridin', I be ridin' on them X 4


Phone just ringing heard a ^!$$% got got
He was over on 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,
my heart near damn stop

Somebody done killed my brother,
now I gotta get back,
let them know cause a ^!$$% gotta feel that

Sitting shotgun with the shot gun:
when you hear the shots come, ^!$$% don't run
Already bad, it can only get worse,

hand full of steel cause the %#@! still hurts
Cut so deep when they put him in the hearse, never saw 25,
had to put them 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
Out'chea trying to make a way,
I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown

Ridin' on these ^!$$%s, I be ridin', I be ridin' on them X 4

Once upon a time downtown in the 9

what it don't mind dyin'
Sworn to a life of crime, was a youngin' only stood 5'5, big money on his mind
Clothes ain't wrinkled while his hands on the iron,

shot six times run in front of my mom
Kind of 32, man, I'm looking to survive on a Pac,
Juice real ^!$$%s don't die

(*##$, I'm from A-town
slang crack on the same side,
blood stains there from a homie with his head cracked

Home Gs like A' wacks they'll be doing this %#@! way back since A track
And we get around, you can't get
you can get fame there from the way you're going to bang that

Truth from the head watch how you aim that
price on your head and we gonna take that
It's about to go down, you ain't about this then you better go now

Sun going down, keep it going 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 while I'm away
this ain't nothing new you grew up downtown


People dying every day
That ain't nothing new when you from downtown
Out'chea trying to make a way,

I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown
Ridin' on these ^!$$%s, I be ridin', I be ridin' on them X 4