Be Alright-Do Or Die

[ti:Be Alright] [ar:Do Or Die] [al:Do Or Die-DOD] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Be Alright - Do Or Die [00:21.97]Look in the heart in the ghetto [00:23.40]Where we be shooked up [00:24.46]From black losin' their life [00:25.60]Now everytime we look up [00:26.40] [00:27.13]Finally pop him throw away [00:28.34]Just learn they wanna book us [00:29.23] [00:29.79]Chicago political criminals like a crook church [00:31.72] [00:32.67]To the Al Capone city we love so much [00:34.77]But when we give our love way [00:36.31]Now who the f**k gon' love us [00:37.38] [00:38.03]We die young and they don't care [00:40.01] [00:40.67]But the old folks still lookin' for they Medicare [00:42.35] [00:43.03]And it's somethin' on my mind I gotta tell ya [00:45.51]My people who surrounded me [00:46.68]They thought I was a failure [00:47.78] [00:48.35]But I appear to be that ni**a from the start [00:50.60]'Cause I'm down for my motherf**kin' niggas in my heart [00:53.23]Said it's gonna be alright [00:57.33] [00:58.38]Only better for me [01:01.99] [01:03.23]Said it's gonna be alright [01:07.87] [01:08.92]Only better for me [01:13.47] [01:14.42]Guns blastin' they after me [01:16.01]Like an assassin neighborhood not lastin' [01:17.72]They burn it down like f**k them bastards [01:19.52]Police be watchin' from the other block and [01:21.68]They crucial put the car in neutral [01:23.52]They try to school people don't run jokes [01:25.44]Different day same sh*t [01:26.47]So I hustle with' my head up [01:27.76]Get'cha paper what'chu scared of [01:29.17]I ain't no joke so put the jokes up in a choke hold [01:31.96]My children need don't stay so [01:33.21]New shoes and some nice clothes [01:34.48]I guess is what we fight fo' [01:35.95]Children of the ghetto reach for the stars [01:38.26]Never think to me sss [01:39.67]'Cause you know who you are [01:41.11]Why don't you hold yo' head up for me [01:45.39]This what I said to him [01:46.17]Said it's gonna be alright [01:50.27] [01:51.31]Only better for me [01:55.26] [01:56.26]Said it's gonna be alright [02:00.80] [02:01.85]Only better for me [02:06.35] [02:07.39]I was a hustla as a shorty [02:08.93]Had to make it pop off [02:10.33]Ni**a gave me lip and he flinched [02:11.82]I knocked his socks off [02:12.98]F**k paddle bubble the coke and watch it rock off [02:15.47]White man designed a blue print to clear the block off [02:18.34]The snakes always fill up the plate and niggas fed up [02:20.75]We need to catch they a** in the yard [02:22.36]And shake they head up [02:23.42]Ya sista always struggles with' babies [02:24.95]Just keep ya head up [02:25.95]And brothas in the pen doin' time [02:27.59]Don't ever let up [02:28.63]A motherf**ka know what it is [02:30.14]To have to strive again [02:31.46]That's why we hit the bricks [02:32.82]And shoot sh*t when this go bobblin' [02:34.69]We tat the dead off in our skin [02:36.09]To keep the mob within' [02:36.81]I never wanna have to go rob or [02:38.11]Have to starve again [02:38.96]Said it's gonna be alright [02:43.16] [02:44.09]Only better for me [02:48.38](Yeah) [02:49.44]Said it's gonna be alright [02:50.67]Only better for me [02:51.21]Baby it's gon' be alright [02:52.51]Homie it's gon' be alright [02:54.38]Hold yo head up [02:55.34] [02:55.86]Baby it's gon' be alright [02:57.39] [02:58.06]Homie it's gon' be alright [02:59.66]You only get 'One life to live' [03:01.57]And these ain't no soaps [03:03.00]Ain't no joke nowadays it ain't no hope [03:05.40]An opportunity for you [03:06.75]And me to follow our dreams [03:08.21]But me and my team finally plan a powerful scheme [03:10.48]So we can try to make a way [03:12.18]That's why I take it 'One day' [03:13.50]At a time I write rhymes and [03:15.23]Get out here on the grind [03:16.45]'Cause man it's do or die for [03:17.72]You and I out here in the struggle [03:19.10]It's gon' be alright ni**a be about yo hustle [03:22.02]We almost here now we can't stop here [03:24.53]We ain't gon' quit til' [03:25.69]We get everything they got here [03:27.32]'Cause I know how it feel to [03:28.48]Not to have your bread up [03:29.78]But even though you fed up [03:31.00]My ni**a keep yo head up [03:32.24]Said it's gonna be alright [03:36.20] [03:37.26]Only better for me [03:40.68] [03:42.02]Said it's gonna be alright [03:46.63] [03:47.49]Only better for me [03:52.90]Said it's gonna be alright [03:57.31] [03:58.19]Only better for me [04:02.11] [04:03.28]Said it's gonna be alright [04:07.81] [04:08.79]Only better for me