[verse 1: august alsina]
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 pollock chillin'
In the back of the track, niggas 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 fuck 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

[hook: august alsina]
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 downtown, down
(so I riide) 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 riide) 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: august alsina]
Phone just ringing heard a nigga 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 '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 'em 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

[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 downtown, down
(so I riide) 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 riide) 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: kidd kidd]
Once upon a time downtown in the 9 (9th ward)
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 (dear lord)
Kind of 32, man, I'm looking to survive on a pac
Juice real niggas don't die
Bitch, I'm from a-town (huh)
Slang crack on the same side
Blood stains there from a homie with his head cracked (blaow)
Home gs like a' wacks
They'll be doing this shit way back since a track (free pj)
And we get around, you can't get
You can get fame there from the way you go and 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 (huh)
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 - huh!

[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 downtown, down
(so I riide) 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 riide) riding on these niggas
I be riding, I be riding on 'em
Riding on these niggas, I be riding, I be riding on 'em