[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)
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[00:07.52]Maximal R - The Freshest & Hottest R/ Hip-Hop Music!
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[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?
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[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
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[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?
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[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)
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[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?
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[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)
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[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)
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[03:38.20]End
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