August Alsina - Downtown Lyrics
(feat. Kidd Kidd)[Verse 1:]Word got around that a nigga got shotHeard a nigga drew down' and he bucked so his ass it got poppedWe was on my block trying to move these rocksTrying to stack this cash on the low, gotta duck these copsWe was right out there' chilling in the back of the trackNiggas got packs, trying to ditch them racksX5 I was riding in the back with the brother's' round kicking in the gat in my lap17 had no dreams, drinking four loco's riding codeineFirst class I was so lean, then ***** high-school, so I left green.[Hook:]No one told me life would be this way!I swear nobody told meGuess this is the game we chose to playCrazy how it's always been the same!People dying every day, that ain't nothing newWhen you from downtown, downtown!I'm just trying to make a way,I won't let these niggas take me downtown, downtown!Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em[Verse 2:]Phone just ringing heard a nigga got gotHe was ' on the East last thing that he heard six shotsHe ain't getting no love from the cops, nobody got caughtReal talk when I heard who it was, heart damn near stoppedSomebody done killed my brother, now I gotta get backLet 'em know cause a nigga gotta feel that!Sitting shotgun with the shot gunWhen you hear the shots come, nigga don't run!Already bad, it can only get worseHand full of steel cause the shit still hurtsCut so deep when they put him in the hearseNever saw 25, had to put him in the dirt.[Hook:]No one told me life would be this way!I swear nobody told meGuess this is the game we chose to playCrazy how it's always been the same!People dying every day, that ain't nothing newWhen you from downtown, downtown!I'm just trying to make a way,I won't let these niggas take me downtown, downtown!Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em[Verse 3:]Once upon a time down town in a nineWhat it don't mind crime doing 2 2 stood 5, 5Big money on his mind, clothes and riko while his hands on his eye.Shots six times run in front of my mindKind of 32, man, I'm looking to surviveOn a pac, juice real niggas don't die!*****, I'm from A town, slang crack on the same sideBlood stains there from a homie with his head crackedHome Gs like A' wacks they'll be doing this shit way back since A track.And we get around, you can't getYou can get fame there from the way you're going to reign thatTruth from the head watch how you aim thatPrice on your head and we gonna take thatIt's about to go down, you ain't about this then you better go nowSun going down, keep it going down!Everybody law down ski mask down!All you gonna see is my eyes and my frownLast thing you hear is my gun going powIt happens every day while I'm awayThis ain't nothing new you grew up downtown.[Hook:]People dying every day, that ain't nothing newWhen you from downtown, downtown!I'm just trying to make a way,I won't let these niggas take me downtown, downtown!Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'emRiding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em
