[ti:Everything's Gonna Be Alright (20th Anniversary Recording)] [ar:Naughty By Nature] [al:Anthem, Inc. (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)] [00:00.02]Naughty By Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (20th Anniversary Recording) [00:02.52] [00:07.52]Maximal R - The Freshest & Hottest R/ Hip-Hop Music! [00:09.07] [00:09.52]Smooth it out [00:10.46]This is a story about the drifter [00:12.14]Who waited through the worst for the best in crosstown [00:15.04]Who never planned on havin' so dick [00:17.11]Why me, huh? [00:18.85] [00:19.48]Everything's gonna be alright [00:20.96](Alright) [00:21.70]Everything's gonna be alright [00:23.28](Alright) [00:24.01]Everything's gonna be alright now [00:25.98](Alright) [00:26.80]Everything's gonna be alright [00:27.93](Alright) [00:28.45] [00:28.93]Some get a little and some get none [00:30.39]Some catch a bad one and some leave the job half done [00:32.90]I was one who never had and always mad [00:34.97]Never knew my dad, motherfuck the fag [00:37.84]Where anywhere I did pick up, flipped the clip up [00:40.24]Too many stick-ups 'cause niggas had the trigger hiccups [00:42.19]I couldn't get a job, nappy hair was not allowed [00:44.72]My mother couldn't afford us all, she had to throw me out [00:47.09]I walked the strip, which is a clip, who wanna hit? [00:49.49]They got 'em quick, I had to eat, this money's good as spent [00:51.79]I threw in graves, I wasn't paid enough [00:54.18]I kept 'em long 'cause I couldn't afford a haircut [00:56.56]I got laughed at, I got chumped, I got dissed [00:58.91]I got upset, I got a Tec and a banana clip [01:01.19]Was down to throw the led to any tellin' crackhead [01:03.53]I'm still livin' broke, so a lot of good it would've did [01:06.00]Or done, if not for bad luck, I would have none [01:08.47]Why did I have to live a life of such a bad one? [01:10.69]Why when I was a kid and played out was a sad one [01:13.07]And always wanted to live like just a fat one? [01:15.16] [01:15.61]Everything's gonna be alright [01:17.26](Alright) [01:17.93]Everything's gonna be alright [01:19.56](Alright) [01:20.22]Everything's gonna be alright now [01:22.24](Alright) [01:22.86]Everything's gonna be alright [01:24.18](Alright) [01:24.71] [01:25.19]A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects [01:26.50]Livin' in the slums with bums, I sit and watch them [01:28.76]Why do I have to be like this? Momma said I'm priceless [01:31.06]So I am all worthless, starved and it's just for bein' a nice kid [01:33.83]Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though [01:36.36]Last stop to hell, I would've ended things a while ago [01:38.77]I ain't have jack but a black hat and knapsack [01:41.17]Four squad stolen in cars in a blackjack [01:43.41]Drop that and now you want me to rap and give? [01:45.62]Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I lived [01:48.25]I lived right around a corner from west hell [01:50.45]Two blocks from south shit, it was in a jail cell [01:52.68]The sun never shone on my side of the street [01:55.00]See and only once or twice a week I would speak [01:57.70]I walked alone, my state of mind was 'Home sweet home' [01:60.00]I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome [02:02.27]Some life, if you ain't wear gold, your style was old [02:04.69]And you got more juice than dope for every bottle sold [02:07.07]Hell, no, I say there's gotta be a better way [02:09.34]But hey, never gamble any game that you can't play [02:11.69]I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now [02:13.97]How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how [02:16.49]Why me, huh? [02:21.79] [02:22.24]Everything's gonna be alright [02:23.08](Alright) [02:23.81]Everything's gonna be alright [02:25.38](Alright) [02:26.16]Everything's gonna be alright now [02:28.07](Alright) [02:28.72]Everything's gonna be alright [02:29.98](Alright) [02:30.65] [02:35.11]My third year into adulthood and still a knucklehead [02:37.67]I'm better off dead, huh, that's what my neighbor said [02:39.88]I don't do jack but fightin', lightin' up the streets at night [02:42.18]Playin' hide and seek with a machete like Freddy swipe [02:44.56]Some say I'm rollin' on, nothin' but a dog now [02:46.97]I answer that with a tech, who wanna bow wow? [02:49.43]'Cause I done been through more shit within the last week [02:51.71]Than I fly flowin' in doo-doo on the concrete [02:54.02]I been a dead beat, dead to the world and dead wrong [02:56.32]Since I was born, that's my life, oh, you don't know this song? [02:58.68]So don't say jack and please don't say you understand [03:01.01]All that man to man talk just hot damn [03:03.53]If you ain't live, you couldn't feel it, so kill it, skillet [03:05.99]And all that talk about it won't help it out, now will it? [03:08.27]And I'll town fell like I stuck up props, got shot [03:10.48]Don't worry, I hit Bob flurry and his punk-ass dropped [03:12.78]But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast [03:15.29]They changin' schools, I'm the misfit that will outlast [03:17.47]But that's cool with the bull, smack 'em backwards [03:19.86]That's what you get for fuckin' with a ghetto bastard [03:22.29]If you ain't ever been to the ghetto [03:24.71]Don't ever come to the ghetto [03:27.53]'Cause you ain't understand the ghetto [03:29.88]And stay the fuck out of the ghetto [03:31.61]Why me? [03:36.55](Alright) [03:37.45] [03:38.20]End [03:38.78] [03:39.52]Naughty By Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (20th Anniversary Recording) [03:47.52] [04:03.52]Maximal R - The Freshest & Hottest R/ Hip-Hop Music!