Naughty By Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (20th Anniversary Version) lyrics

Smooth it out This is a story about the drifter Who waited through the worst for the best in crosstown Who never planned on havin' so dick Why me, huh? Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright now (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Some get a little and some get none Some catch a bad one and some leave the job half done I was one who never had and always mad Never knew my dad, motherf** the f*g Where anywhere I did pick up, flipped the clip up Too many stick-ups 'cause n***as had the trigger hiccups I couldn't get a job, nappy hair was not allowed My mother couldn't afford us all, she had to throw me out I walked the strip, which is a clip, who wanna hit? They got 'em quick, I had to eat, this money's good as spent I threw in graves, I wasn't paid enough I kept 'em long 'cause I couldn't afford a haircut I got laughed at, I got chumped, I got dissed I got upset, I got a Tec and a banana clip Was down to throw the led to any tellin' crackhead I'm still livin' broke, so a lot of good it would've did Or done, if not for bad luck, I would have none Why did I have to live a life of such a bad one? Why when I was a kid and played out was a sad one And always wanted to live like just a fat one? Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright now (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) A ghetto ba*tard, born next to the projects Livin' in the slums with bums, I sit and watch them Why do I have to be like this? Momma said I'm priceless So I am all worthless, starved and it's just for bein' a nice kid Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though Last stop to hell, I would've ended things a while ago I ain't have jack but a black hat and knapsack Four squad stolen in cars in a blackjack Drop that and now you want me to rap and give? Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I lived I lived right around a corner from west hell Two blocks from south sh**, it was in a jail cell The sun never shone on my side of the street See and only once or twice a week I would speak I walked alone, my state of mind was 'Home sweet home' I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome Some life, if you ain't wear gold, your style was old And you got more juice than dope for every bottle sold Hell, no, I say there's gotta be a better way But hey, never gamble any game that you can't play I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how Why me, huh? Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright now (Alright) Everything's gonna be alright (Alright) My third year into adulthood and still a knucklehead I'm better off dead, huh, that's what my neighbor said I don't do jack but fightin', lightin' up the streets at night Playin' hide and seek with a machete like Freddy swipe Some say I'm rollin' on, nothin' but a dog now I answer that with a tech, who wanna bow wow? 'Cause I done been through more sh** within the last week Than I fly flowin' in doo-doo on the concrete I been a dead beat, dead to the world and dead wrong Since I was born, that's my life, oh, you don't know this song? So don't say jack and please don't say you understand All that man to man talk just hot damn If you ain't live, you couldn't feel it, so k** it, sk**et And all that talk about it won't help it out, now will it? And I'll town fell like I stuck up props, got shot Don't worry, I hit Bob flurry and his punk-a** dropped But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast They changin' schools, I'm the misfit that will outlast But that's cool with the bull, smack 'em backwards That's what you get for f**in' with a ghetto ba*tard If you ain't ever been to the ghetto Don't ever come to the ghetto 'Cause you ain't understand the ghetto And stay the f** out of the ghetto Why me? (Alright)