Downtown Lyrics - 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 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. 

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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 

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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. 

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 

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. 

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