Top Down Lyrics

[Intro]
Swizzy!
Can you say "New York City"?
Can you say "New York City"?
Can you say "New York City"?
If you not from New York, well
Wherever you are (Shine!)
Whoever you are (Shine!)
Wherever you are (Shine!)
Whoever you are (Shine!)
Wherever you are (Shine!)
Whoever you are (Shine!)
Hey, hey, I told ya

[Chorus]
Ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on
I'm just, I'm just, doing my thing
I'm just, I'm just, (pimp) doing my thing
Hey (yup), hey (yup), hey (yup), hey
I said I'm ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on

[Verse 1]
I'm in the hood bouncin', spray it like a fountain
Money like a mountain, tell me why you're poutin'
I know why you're poutin', because we getting paper
Hey, tell 'em again, Swizzy, we getting that paper
I'm in the hood, top down, with my jewelry on me
With security on me, I got my goons on me
I get 'em off me, I shake them haters off me
DJ, get 'em off me, I shake them haters off me

Niggas is you with me? My bitches is you with me?
If you got a problem, then sucker come and get me
Y'all know my name
You see the candy paint, it spell my name, Swizzy
[Chorus]
Ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on
I'm just, I'm just, doing my thing
I'm just, I'm just, (pimp) doing my thing
Hey (yup), hey (yup). hey (yup). hey
I said I'm ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on

[Verse 2]
It's like bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
You know the block is bumpin'
Fiends on the corner, man, you know the block is bumpin'
Speakers in your trunk, shit thumpin'
They playing my song, people is jumpin'

Now, we got a little block party, y'all
And there ain't nothing but Henny and Bacardi, y'all

Sitting on a stoop, on a milk crate
How you living life? Fucker say "Great!"
How many of y'all come from nothin' into somethin'?
Why these niggas hating? Why these niggas frontin'?

We just ridin' with our tops down
Niggas acting like somebody got shot now


[Chorus]
Ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on
I'm just, I'm just, doing my thing
I'm just, I'm just, (pimp) doing my thing
Hey (yup), hey (yup), hey (yup), hey
I said I'm ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on
[Verse 3]
This chick said "Swizz, I wanna ride in your Viper."
I said "Hell nah, don't you know that's a Spyker?
Number two out of only 20 in the world
You sit in my seat, it'll change your world
I'm fresh to death, like a million bucks
Threw on my Louie hat, with my fucking Gucci chucks
Stepped out the Benz, that bitch said "Oh no!"

I said "Easy chick, you know I gotta go."

[Chorus]
Ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on
I'm just, I'm just, doing my thing
I'm just, I'm just, (pimp) doing my thing
Hey (yup), hey (yup), hey (yup), hey
I said I'm ridin' with my top down, and my jewelry on
Hey, I'm just getting my hood on

[Outro]
Wherever you are (Shine)
Whoever you are (Shine)
Wherever you are (Shine)
Whoever you are (Shine)
Wherever you are (Shine)
Whoever you are (Shine)

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Genius Annotation

One of the tracks off his debut studio album, “Top Down” contains samples of 70s-soul horns from “Girl, Come on Home” by Major Lance.

Originally the track was meant for Nas. Swizz quotes “The record was originally for Nas. I got Nas' vocals already. But I can’t do Nas, and his energy is not right on there. It would be dead weight. No disrespect, but it can’t be dead weight if I can’t make it feel like reality. I need the shit crazy. I need to shoot a video! It’s gotta be another ‘It’s Me Bitches,’ but bigger.”

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Release Date
May 29, 2007
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