Naughty by nature everythings gonna be alright lyrics

[Intro:]
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?

[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:]
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
Where anywhere I did pick up, flipped the clip up
Too 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, 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 tech in the 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

[Chorus:]

[Verse 2:]
A ghetto bastard, 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 being 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 napsack
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 shit, 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, it 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?

[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 machetti??? 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 shit within the last week
Than I fly flowin' 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 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 kill it, skillet
And all that talk about it won't help it out, now will it?
And illtown fell like I stuck-up props, got shot
Don't worry, I hit Bob, flurry, and his punk-ass 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 fuckin' with a ghetto bastard

[Outro:]
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 fuck out of the ghetto
Why me?
(alright)

Songwriters: Claydes Smith, Dennis Thomas, Earl Toon, George Brown, James Taylor, Meekaaeel Muhammad, Robert Bell, Rodney Jenkins, Ronald Bell

• ·Hip-Hop Hooray
• ·Family Tree
• ·Strike A Nerve
• ·Jamboree
• ·Dirt All By My Lonely
• ·Uptown Anthem
• ·On The Run
• ·Feels Good
• ·Work
• ·Respect Due

"Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
Single by Naughty by Nature
from the album Naughty by Nature
B-side	"O.P.P." (Live)
Released	November 26, 1991
Recorded	1991
Genre	Hip hop
Length	3:16
Label	Tommy Boy
Songwriter(s)	Vincent Brown Anthony Criss Vincent Ford
Producer(s)	Naughty by Nature
Naughty by Nature singles chronology
"O.P.P." (1991) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (1991) "Uptown Anthem" (1992)
Music video
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" on YouTube

"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" is the second single released from Naughty by Nature's self-titled second album. The song is titled "Ghetto Bastard" on uncensored versions of the eponymous album. While not as successful as their previous single, "O.P.P.", "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" managed to make it to 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 9 on the Hot Rap Singles. The song would later appear on both of the group's compilation albums, 1999's Nature's Finest: Naughty by Nature's Greatest Hits and 2003's Greatest Hits: Naughty's Nicest. It was rerecorded for the 2011 release, Anthem Inc.

The song's chorus is derived from Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry".[1][2] The bass line in the song "Holy" by Justin Bieber is almost identical to the one in this song.

Critical reception[edit]

Jesse Ducker from Albumism said in his review of the Naughty by Nature album, that "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" is "the stronger and more incisive recording [than its predecessor]." He described it as "unremittingly bleak", adding, "I can think of few songs that are better at presenting a first-person account of despair and poverty."[3] Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Follow-up to platinum single "O.P.P." is not as light and fluffy, though it will establish rap act as lyricists to be reckoned with. Story lines about surviving fatherless homes seem to be all the rage at the moment. Here, topic is handled with an intelligent and optimistic hand."[4] A reviewer from Music & Media noted that the "talented rap crew" has replaced the reggae beat of the Bob Marley song with a modern dance groove, and complimented it as "easy programmable."[5]

Music video[edit]

A music video was produced to promote the single,[6] featuring the band rapping as they walk on sidewalks throughout the inner city. While hanging out they chase away a drug dealer and scare him with a machete. The video was later published on Tommy Boy Records' official YouTube channel in June 2018. It has amassed more than 2,8 million views as of October 2021.[7]

Single track listing[edit]

A-Side[edit]

1. "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (LP Version)- 4:51
2. "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (Radio Mix)- 4:14

B-Side[edit]

1. "O.P.P." (Live)- 6:15
2. "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (Everything's OK)- 4:50
3. "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (Everything's OK Instrumental)- 4:14

Charts[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ Worrell, Kris (27 December 1991). "Naughty By Nature". Daily Press. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
2. ^ Lustig, Jay (11 November 2014). "'Everything's Gonna Be Alright,' Naughty by Nature". NJ Arts. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
3. ^ Ducker, Jesse (31 August 2021). "Naughty By Nature's Eponymous Second Album 'Naughty By Nature' Turns 30 — Anniversary Retrospective". Albumism. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
4. ^ Flick, Larry (30 November 1991). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. p. 82. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
5. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. 7 March 1992. p. 12. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
6. ^ "Naughty by Nature: Everything's Gonna Be Alright". IMDb. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
7. ^ "Naughty By Nature - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Official Music Video)". YouTube. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
8. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia’s Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 199.
9. ^ "European Dance Radio" (PDF). Music & Media. 29 February 1992. p. 37. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
10. ^ "Naughty by Nature – Everything's Gonna Be Alright". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
11. ^ "Top 60 Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 29 February 1992. p. 22. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
12. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 603.
13. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 424.