I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screaming in the hotel room
Lucifer was all around
So I kept running
Until I found my safe haven
I was trying to convince myself the stripes I got
Making myself realize what my foundation was
(In the room, and I run it)
But while my loved ones were fighting the continuous war back in the city
I was entering a new one
A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination
Ay on my momma n***a (R.I.P. Pat Dawg)
I’mma be the greatest to ever do this sh**
On my momma doe like
On the dead homies
Aye Sounwave turn this sh** up n***a
Turn this sh** up
Sounwave, turn this sh** up n***a
Tell me, who the b**h n***a hatin’ on me?
Jumping on my dick, but this dick ain’t free
To Pimp a Butterfly another cla**ic CD
Ghetto lullaby for every one-day MC
n***a, now R.I.P
My diligence is only meant to write your eulogy
[Intro]
Alls my life I has to fight, n***a
Alls my life I…
Hard times like, “God!”
Bad trips like, “Yea!”
Nazareth, I’m f**ed up
Homie you f**ed up
But if God got us
Then we gon’ be alright
[Chorus: Pharrell Williams]
n***a, we gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
We gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Huh? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Verse 1]
Uh, and when I wake up
I recognize you’re lookin’ at me for the pay cut
But homicide be lookin’ at you from the face down
What Mac-11 even boom with the ba** down
Schemin’, and let me tell you ’bout my life
Paink**ers only put me in the twilight
Where pretty p**y and Benjamin is the highlight
Now tell my momma I love her but this what I like, Lord knows
20 of ’em in my Chevy, tell ’em all to come and get me
Reapin’ everything I sow, so my karma come
And heaven no preliminary hearing, so my record
I’m a motherf**in’ gangster in silence for the record
Tell the world I know it’s too late
Boys and girls, I think I gone cray
Drown inside my vices all day
Won’t you please believe when I say
[Pre-Chorus]
Wouldn’t you know
We been hurt, been down before
n***a, when our pride was low
Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go?”
n***a, and we hate po-po
Wanna k** us dead in the street fo sho
n***a, I’m at the preacher’s door
My knees gettin’ weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon’ be alright
[Chorus]
n***a, we gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
We gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Huh? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Verse 2]
What you want, you a house, you a car?
40 acres and a mule, a piano, a guitar?
Anything, see my name is Lucy, I’m your dog
Motherf**er, you can live at the mall
I can see the evil, I can tell it, I know it’s illegal
I don’t think about it, I deposit every little zero
Thinkin’ of my partner, put the candy, paint it on the Regal
Diggin’ in my pocket, ain’t a profit big enough to feed you
Everyday my logic, get another dollar just to keep you
In the presence of your chico… ah!
I don’t talk about it, be about it, everyday I sequel
If I got it then you know you got it, heaven, I can reach you
Pet dog, pet dog, pet dog, my dog, that’s all
Pick back and chat, I trap the back for y’all
I rap, I black on track so rest a**ured
My rights, my wrongs; I write ’til I’m right with God
[Pre-Chorus]
Wouldn’t you know
We been hurt, been down before
n***a, when our pride was low
Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go?”
n***a, and we hate po-po
Wanna k** us dead in the street fo sho
n***a, I’m at the preacher’s door
My knees gettin’ weak, and my gun might blow
But we gon’ be alright
[Chorus]
n***a, we gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
We gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Huh? We gon’ be alright
n***a, we gon’ be alright
Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
[Outro]
I keep my head up high
I cross my heart and hope to die
Lovin’ me is complicated
Too afraid, a lot of changes
I’m alright, and you’re a favorite
Dark nights in my prayers
[Poem]
I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screaming in the hotel room
I didn’t wanna self-destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went running for answers