[00:08.43]Smooth it out
[00:10.05]This is a story about the drifter
[00:12.30]Who waited through the worst for the best in crosstown
[00:15.09]Who never planned on havin' so shitty
[00:16.62]Why me huh?
[00:17.82]Everything's gonna be alright
[00:19.23]Everything's gonna be alright
[00:21.54]Everything's gonna be alright now
[00:23.88]Everything's gonna be alright
[00:28.32]Some get a little and some get none
[00:30.12]Some catch a bad one and some leave the job half done
[00:33.18]I was one who never had and always mad
[00:35.40]Never knew my dad, mother****er the fag
[00:37.77]Where anywhere
[00:38.46]I did pick up, flipped the clip up
[00:40.17]Too many stick-ups, 'cause niggas had the trigger hic-ups
[00:42.60]I couldn't get a job, nappy hair was not allowed
[00:44.76]My mother couldn't afford us all, she had to throw me out
[00:47.28]I walked the strip, which is a clip, who wanna hit?
[00:49.50]They got 'em quick,
[00:50.22]I had to eat, this money's good as spent
[00:51.96]I threw in graves,
[00:52.89]I wasn't paid enough
[00:54.27]I kept 'em long 'cause
[00:55.05]I couldn't afford a haircut
[00:56.64]I got laughed at,
[00:57.51]I got chumped,
[00:58.17]I got dissed
[00:58.92]I got upset,
[00:59.64]I got a tech in the banana clip
[01:01.23]Was down to throw the led to any tellin' crack head
[01:03.69]I'm still livin' broke, so a lot of good it would've did
[01:05.64]Or done, if not for bad luck,
[01:07.50]I would have none
[01:08.28]Why did I have to live a life of such a bad one
[01:10.62]Why when I was a kid and played out was a sad one
[01:13.08]And always wanted to live like just a fat one
[01:15.60]Everything's gonna be alright
[01:17.91]Everything's gonna be alright
[01:20.28]Everything's gonna be alright now
[01:22.38]Everything's gonna be alright
[01:24.33]A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects
[01:26.46]Livin' in the slums with bums,
[01:27.81]I sit and watch them
[01:28.80]Do I have to be like this?
[01:29.88]Momma said
[01:30.45]I'm priceless
[01:31.11]So I am all worthless, starved and it's just for being a nice kid
[01:34.14]Sometimes
[01:34.56]I wish I could afford a pistol then, though
[01:36.60]Last stop to hell,
[01:37.20]I would've ended things a while ago
[01:38.97]I ain't have jack but a black hat and knapsack
[01:41.37]Four squad stolen cars in a black jack
[01:43.62]Drop that and now you want me to rap and give?
[01:45.84]Say somethin' positive, well positive ain't where
[01:47.76]I livedI lived right around a corner from
[01:49.77]West HellTwo blocks from south bitch, it was in a jail cell
[01:52.92]The sun never shone on my side of the street, see
[01:55.35]And only once or twice a week
[01:57.00]I would speak
[01:57.75]I walked alone, my state of mind was home sweet home
[02:00.06]I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome
[02:02.37]Some life, it you ain't wear gold your style was old
[02:04.74]And you got more juice than **** for every bottle sold
[02:07.11]Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way
[02:09.39]But hey, never gamble any game that you can't play
[02:11.58]I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now
[02:13.86]How will I do it, how will
[02:14.94]I make it?
[02:15.51]I won't, that's how
[02:16.20]Why me, huh?
[02:19.95]Everything's gonna be alright
[02:23.70]Everything's gonna be alright
[02:26.07]Everything's gonna be alright now
[02:28.95]Everything's gonna be alright
[02:34.62]My third year to adulthood and still a knucklehead
[02:37.59]I'm better off dead, huh, that's what my neighbor said
[02:40.02]I don't do jack but fightin', lightin' up the streets at night
[02:42.15]Playin' hide and seek with a machete[Incomprehensible] like
[02:43.95]Freddy swipe
[02:44.64]Some say I'm rollin' on, nothin' but a dog now
[02:47.07]I answer that with a tech, who wanna bow-wow?'
[02:49.41]Cause I done been through more shit within the last week
[02:51.72]Than I fly flowin' in doo-doo on the concrete
[02:54.12]I been a deadbeat, dead to the world and dead wrong
[02:56.40]Since I was born that's my life, oh you don't know this song?
[02:58.74]So don't say jack and please don't say you understand
[03:01.11]All that man to man talk just hot damn
[03:03.48]If you ain't live you couldn't feel it, so kill it, skillet
[03:05.85]And all that talk about it won't help it out, now will it?
[03:08.19]And ill town fell like
[03:09.12]I stuck-up props, got shot
[03:10.50]Don't worry,
[03:10.98]I hit Bob, flurry, and his punk-ass dropped
[03:12.84]But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast
[03:15.21]They changin' schools,
[03:16.05]I'm the misfit that will outlast
[03:17.52]But that's cool with the bull, smack 'em backwards
[03:19.89]That's what you get for ****in' with a ghetto bastard
[03:22.71]If you ain't ever been to the ghetto
[03:25.20]Don't ever come to the ghetto'
[03:26.58]Cause you ain't understand the ghetto
[03:29.73]And stay the **** out of the ghetto
[03:35.28]Why me? Why me?

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 shitty
Why me huh?
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright
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****er 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' crack head
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
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright
A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects
Livin' in the slums with bums,
I sit and watch them
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 knapsack
Four squad stolen cars in a black jack
Drop that and now you want me to rap and give?
Say somethin' positive, well positive ain't where
I livedI lived right around a corner from
West HellTwo blocks from south bitch, 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 **** 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?
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright now
Everything's gonna be alright
My third year to 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 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 ill town 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 ****in' with a ghetto bastard
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 **** out of the ghetto
Why me? Why me?