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 polot 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 fried chicken With the gat in my lap 17 had no dreams, drinking 4 LOKO, sprite and codeine First class I was so lean, then 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 We do for 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 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Phone just ringing heard a nigga got got 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, heart damn near stopped Somebody done killed my brother, now I gotta get back Let 'em know cause a nigga gotta feel that! Sitting shot gun, with the shot gun When you hear the shots come, nigga don't run! Already bad, it can only get worst 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 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 niggas take me downtown, downtown! Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em. Once upon a time down town in a nine Where they don't mind dieing Drew to a life of crime Was a youngin only 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 lucky to survive On a pac, juice real niggas don't die! Bitch, 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 they'll be doing this shit 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 go down scheme ass 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: 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 niggas take me downtown, downtown! Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em Riding on these niggas, I'll be riding, I'll be riding on 'em