(Verse)
Word got around that a ^!$$% got shot
Heard a ^!$$% drew down' and her bucked soon as it got packed

We was on my block trying to move these racks
Trying to stack this cash on the low, gotta duck these cops
We was right out there' chilling in the back of the track

^!$$%s got packs, trying to ditch them racks
X5 I was riding in the back with the brother's' round kicking in the cat in my lap
17 had no dreams, drinking roloff riding codeine

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

(Hook)

No one told me life would be this way!
That's what 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
We do for downtown, downtown!

I'm just trying to make a way,
I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown, downtown!
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em

Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em


(Verse)
Phone just ringing heard a ^!$$% got gut

He was ' 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, what damn is that?

It's money that killed my brother, now I gotta get back
Let 'em know cause a ^!$$% gotta feel that!
Saying shotgun with the shot gun

When you hear the shots come, ^!$$% don't run!
Already there, it can only get worse
Hand full of steel cause the %#@! still hurts

Cut so deep when they put him in the hearse
That was only 25, had to put them in the dirt.


(Hook)
No one told me life would be this way!
That's what 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

We do for downtown, downtown!
I'm just trying to make a way,
I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown, downtown!

Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em

Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em

(Verse)

Once upon a time down town in a nine
What it don't mind crime doing 2 2 stood 5, 5
Big money on his mind, clothes and riko while his hands on his eye.

Shots six times run in front of my mind
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 reign 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 law 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.


(Hook)
People dying every day, that ain't nothing new
We do for downtown, downtown!
I'm just trying to make a way,
I won't let these ^!$$%s take me downtown, downtown!

Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
Riding on these ^!$$%s, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em