Downtown lyrics

[Verse 1:]

Word got around that a nigga got shot

Heard a nigga drew down' and he bucked so his ass 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

Niggas 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 fuck high-school, so I left Reed.

[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 every day, that ain't nothing new

When you from downtown, downtown!

Out here tryna make a way

I won't let these niggas take me down-down, down!

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

[Verse 2:]

Phone just RANG heard a nigga 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 damn near stopped

Somebody done killed my brother, now I gotta get back

Let 'em know 'cause a nigga gotta feel that!

Sitting shotgun with the shot gun

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 every day, that ain't nothing new

When you from downtown, downtown!

Out here tryna make a way

I won't let these niggas take me down-down, down!

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

[Verse 3:]

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 niggas don't die!

Bitch, 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 shit 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.

[Hook:]

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 niggas take me down-down, down!

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

(So I ride)

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em

• Artist:August Alsina
• Album:Downtown: Life Under The Gun