Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard) Lyrics

[Skit]
Nurse Johnson, is the mother still in the recovery room?
Yes, Dr. Blair
Okay, I'll go to the waiting room and inform the father it's a boy
I'm afraid there is no father, sir
Another ghetto bastard, huh?
I'm afraid so
Well, put him with the rest of the born losers
Alright, doctor, a shame, isn't it?
Not a shame, a problem
(Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton)

[Intro]
Smooth it out (Alright)
This is a story about the drifter
Who waited for the worst, 'cause the best lived 'cross town
Who never planned on having, so didn't
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: Treach]
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, motherfuck the fag
Well, anyway, I did pickups, lift-and-click-ups
Seen many stick-ups, 'cause niggas 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 with just a clip, who want a hit?
They got 'em 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 jumped, I got dissed

I got upset, I got a TEC and a banana clip
Was down to throw the lead to any telling tackhead
I still'd been broke, so a lot of good it woulda did
Or done, if not for bad luck, I would have none

Why did I have to live the 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

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Genius Annotation

Naughty by Nature’s second single on their self-titled debut album, “Ghetto Bastard” uses the drum loop from Lafayette Afro Band’s “Hihache.”

This song portrays the life of a black male who is born without a father, forcing the young man into a life of crime just to make ends meet. This track is a heavy critique on systemic issues that are taking place in the ghetto and how the government attempts to help never truly understand the basis of.

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