Released: August 3, 2010

Featuring: Dre Busta Rhymes

Songwriter: The Game Busta Rhymes Dre

Producer: Cool N Dre

[Verse 1: Game & *Busta Rhymes*]

I was gonna buy a convertible, thought about JFK getting
*Shot down in cold blood*
So I ain't cop that shit, cause I ain't wanna be riding through the hood and get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Riding through Compton in the Aston thinking bout my nigga 4cent getting
*Shot down in cold blood*
What if that was me? Nigga probably bet a G I wouldn't be live to see 30 i'd get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Nigga getting money, hating niggas tryina' flex, wanna do you like Malcolm X
*Shot down in cold blood*
Do you like Martin Luther King, in Memphis were he got
*Shot down in cold blood*
And N.Y.P.D. Y'all can go to hell for killing that boy Sean Bell
*Shot down in cold blood*
Killing that nigga Pac, killing that boy B.I., two of the greatest rappers just
*Shot down in cold blood*
Could have been me, could have been that nigga Fifty, don't beef with the 60 you get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Ask the nigga Nipsey, know he got some dead homies, and I got some dead homies that got
*Shot down in cold blood*

[Hook: Game & *Busta Rhymes*] (x2)
So you got a red a rag, watch where you hang it fake ass gang bangers get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Heard you got a blue rag, watch where you put it the wrong pocket catch a bullet
*Shot down in cold blood*

[Verse 2: Dre & Busta Rhymes]
The news never talk about the killers in the hood, I guess they don't give a fuck if you get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Last night a stray bullet hit a niggy in his head, on the way to feed his kids he was
*Shot down in cold blood*
"This business is never personal", that is what a nigga said, for the right fucking price you get
*Shot down in cold blood*
Sniff a whole bag of angel dust, walked upon that teacher pull a pistol out "Blam!" she got
*Shot down in cold blood*
Niggas out in Northern California bout to burn the city down for Oscar Grant, he got
*Shot down in cold blood*
Real shit, they try to tear you down when you alive, and call you legendary once you get
*Shot down in cold blood*
I bet my niggas ride on everything, everybody getting it, included kids
*Shot down in cold blood*
Yellow tape at the wake, lord forget my evil ways damn, preacher found slain, he was
*Shot down in cold blood*

[Hook]

The Game

Jayceon Terrell Taylor was born November 29th, 1979 in Compton, California to two Crip-affiliated gang members. He grew up on Santana Blocc, a Crip-controlled neighborhood, with a large family of half and step siblings. He was hardened by a rough and violent childhood stinting from his parent’s drug use, domestic violence, and family members being killed through gang-related conflicts.

By 2000, a 21-year-old Jayceon Taylor was a member of the Cedar Block Pirus, a Blood-affiliated gang, and dealt drugs on the streets of Compton.

Late on the night of October 1st, 2001, Jayceon was alone in his apartment when the doorbell rang and after opening the door, he was jumped by three