Look in the heart in the ghetto, where we be shooked up
From black losin' their life, now everytime we look up
Finally pop him, throw away, just learn, they wanna book us
Chicago political criminals like a crook church
To the Al Capone city we love so much
But when we give our love way, now who the f** gon' love us?
We die young and they don't care
But the old folks still lookin' for they Medicare
And it's somethin' on my mind I gotta tell ya
My people who surrounded me, they thought I was a failure
But I appear to be that n***a from the start
'Cause I'm down for my motherf**in' n***as in my heart
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Guns blastin', they after me
Like an a**a**in, neighborhood not lastin'
They burn it down, like f** them ba*tards
Police be watchin', from the other block and
They crucial, put the car in neutral
They try to school, people don't run jokes
Different day, same sh**, so I hustle with' my head up
Get'cha paper, what'chu scared of?
I ain't no joke so, put the jokes up in a choke hold
My children need, don't stay so
New shoes and some nice clothes
I guess is what we fight fo'
Children of the ghetto, reach for the stars
Never think to me sss, 'cause you know who you are
Why don't you hold yo' head up for me?
This what I said to him
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
I was a hustla as a shorty, had to make it pop off
n***a gave me lip and he flinched, I knocked his socks off
f** paddle, bubble the coke and watch it rock off
White man designed a blue print to clear the block off
The snakes always fill up the plate and n***as fed up
We need to catch they a** in the yard and shake they head up
Ya sista always struggles with' babies, just keep ya head up
And brothas in the pen doin' time, don't ever let up
A motherf**a know what it is to have to strive again
That's why we hit the bricks and shoot sh** when this go bobblin'
We tat the dead off in our skin to keep the mob within'
I never wanna have to go rob or have to starve again
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
(Yeah)
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Baby, it's gon' be alright
Homie, it's gon' be alright
Hold yo head up
Baby, it's gon' be alright
Homie, it's gon' be alright
You only get 'One life to live' and these ain't no soaps
Ain't no joke, nowadays it ain't no hope
An opportunity for you and me to follow our dreams
But me and my team finally plan a powerful scheme
So we can try to make a way that's why I take it 'One day'
At a time, I write rhymes and get out here on the grind
'Cause man, it's do or die for you and I out here in the struggle
It's gon' be alright, n***a be about yo hustle
We almost here now, we can't stop here
We ain't gon' quit til' we get everything they got here
'Cause I know how it feel to not to have your bread up
But even though you fed up, my n***a keep yo head up
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me
Said it's gonna be alright
(Said it's gonna be alright)
Only better for me