[ti:Everything's Gonna Be Alright ] [ar:Naughty By Nature] [al:Greatest Hits: Naughty's Nices] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Naughty By Nature [00:09.02]Smooth it out [00:09.77] [00:11.09]This is a story about the drifter [00:12.59] [00:13.15]Who waited through the worst for the best in crosstown [00:15.27] [00:15.83]Who never planned on havin' so dick [00:17.39] [00:18.45]Why me huh [00:19.33] [00:20.14]Everything's gonna be alright (alright) [00:22.38]Everything's gonna be alright (alright) [00:24.32]Everything's gonna be alright now (alright) [00:27.00]Everything's gonna be alright (alright) [00:28.82]Some get a little and some get none [00:30.57]Some catch a bad one and some leave the job half done [00:33.07]I was one who never had and always mad [00:35.58]Never knew my dad mother f**k the fag [00:38.02]Where anywhere I did pick up flipped the clip up [00:40.58]Too many stick-ups 'cause niggas had the trigger hic-ups [00:42.70]I couldn't get a job nappy hair was not allowed [00:44.83]My mother couldn't afford us all she had to throw me out [00:47.70]I walked the strip which is a clip who wanna hit [00:50.02]They got 'em quick I had to eat this money's good as spent [00:52.70]I threw in graves I wasn't paid enough [00:54.47]I kept 'em long 'cause I couldn't afford a haircut [00:56.59]I got laughed at I got chumped I got dissed [00:59.09]I got upset I got a tech in the banana clip [01:01.50]Was down to throw the led to any tellin' crackhead [01:03.43]I'm still livin' broke so a lot of good it would've did [01:06.44]Or done if not for bad luck I would have none [01:08.21] [01:08.76]Why did I have to live a life of such a bad one [01:11.01]Why when I was a kid and played out was a sad one [01:13.38]And always wanted to live like just a fat one [01:15.73] [01:25.04]A ghetto bastard born next to the projects [01:27.02]Livin' in the slums with bums I sit and watch them [01:29.27]Why do I have to be like this momma said I'm priceless [01:31.46]So I am all worthless starved and it's just for being a nice kid [01:34.71]Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then though [01:36.71]Last stop to hell I would've ended things a while ago [01:39.33]I ain't have jack but a black hat and napsack [01:41.39] [01:41.96]Four squad stolen in cars in a blackjack [01:44.01]Drop that and now you want me to rap and give [01:46.57]Say somethin' positive Well positive ain't where I lived [01:48.76]I lived right around a corner from west hell [01:50.76]Two blocks from south sh*t it was in a jail cell [01:53.07]The sun never shone on my side of the street see [01:55.57]And only once or twice a week I would speak [01:58.39]I walked alone my state of mind was home sweet home [02:00.76]I couldn't keep a girl they wanted kids for cause of chrome [02:03.20]Some life it you ain't wear gold your style was old [02:05.51]And you got more juice than d**e for every bottle sold [02:07.89]Hell no I say there's gotta be a better way [02:10.05]But hey never gamble any game that you can't play [02:12.18]I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now [02:14.67]How will I do it how will I make it I won't that's how [02:16.74] [02:21.43]Why me huh [02:22.43] [02:35.93]My third year into adulthood and still a knucklehead [02:37.74] [02:38.35]I'm better off dead huh that's what my neighbor said [02:40.98]I don't do jack but fightin' lightin' up the streets at night [02:43.35]Playin' hide and seek with a machetti like Freddy swipe [02:45.35]Some say I'm rollin' on nothin' but a dog now [02:47.73]I answer that with a tech who wanna bow-wow [02:49.60]'Cause I done been through more sh*t within the last week [02:52.48]Than I fly flowin' in doo-doo on the concrete [02:54.23]I been a deadbeat dead to the world and dead wrong [02:57.35]Since I was born that's my life oh you don't know this song [03:00.11]So don't say jack and please don't say you understand [03:02.23]All that man to man talk just hot damn [03:04.16]If you ain't live you couldn't feel it so kill it skillet [03:06.79]And all that talk about it won't help it out now will it [03:09.29]And illtown fell like I stuck-up props got shot [03:11.29]Don't worry I hit Bob flurry and his punk-a** dropped [03:13.35]But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast [03:16.04]They changin' schools I'm the misfit that will outlast [03:17.54] [03:18.41]But that's cool with the bull smack 'em backwards [03:20.17]That's what you get for f**kin' with a ghetto bastard [03:23.16]If you ain't ever been to the ghetto [03:25.04] [03:25.61]Don't ever come to the ghetto [03:27.04] [03:28.04]'Cause you ain't understand the ghetto [03:29.54] [03:30.23]And stay the f**k out of the ghetto [03:31.56] [03:36.80]Why me [03:36.94](alright)