Naughty by Nature Everything's Gonna Be Alright
[Intro]
Smooth it out
This is a story about the drifter
Who waited for the worst cause the best lived cross town
Who never planned on havin' so dick
Why me, huh?
[Chorus]
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)
[Verse 1]
Look, 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, mother fuck the fag
Well anyway I didn't pick up, flipped the clip up
Seen many stick-ups, 'cause niggas had the trigger hic-ups
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, with just a clip, who wanna hit?
They got on quick I had to eat, this money's good as spent
I threw in braids, 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 lead to any dealin' tackhead
Hustlin' 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 I was a sad one
And always wanted to live like this or that one
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects
Livin' in the slums with bums, I said now why Treach?
Do I have to be like this? Mama said I'm priceless
So why am I worthless, starving, that's just what being nice gets
Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though
To stop the hell, I would've ended things a while ago
I ain't have jack but a black hat and knapsack
War scars stolen cars and a blackjack
Drop that, so 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 shit, and once 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 on see home
I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids with cars on chrome
Some life, if you ain't wear gold your style was old
And you got more juice and dope for every bottle sold
Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way
But hey, never gamble in a game that you can't play
I'm slowin' and flowin' and growin' in on and knowin' not now
How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how
Why me?
[Chorus]
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 sexin' Freddy's wife
Some say I'm rollin' on, nothin' but a dog now
I answer that with a with a "Fuck you" and a "Bow-wow"
'Cause I done been through more shit within the last week
Than a fly floatin' in doo-doo on the concrete
I been a deadbeat, dead to the world and dead wrong
Since I was born that's my life, oh you don't know the song?
So don't say jack, and please don't say you understand
All that man to man talk can walk, damn!
If you ain't live you couldn't feel it, so kill it, skillet
And all that talkin' bout it won't help it out, now will it?
In illtown girl like sucka, props got shot
Don't worry, I hit by a flurry, and his punk-ass dropped
But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast
They teach in schools, I'm the misfit y'all'll outlast
But that's full with the bull, smack 'em backwards
That's what you get for fuckin' with a ghetto bastard
[Outro]
If you ain't ever been to the ghetto
Don't ever come to the ghetto
'Cause you wouldn't understand the ghetto
So stay the fuck out the ghetto!
Why me?
(alright)
