Kendrick Lamar - Alright (Lyrics)

[Produced by Pharrell Williams & Sounwave]

[Intro]

Alls my life I has to fight, nigga

Alls my life I...

Hard times like God

Bad trips like: "God!"

Nazareth, I'm fucked up

Homie you fucked up

But if God got us we then gon' be alright

[Hook: Pharrell Williams]

Nigga, we gon' be alright

Nigga, we gon' be alright

We gon' be alright

Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon' be alright

Nigga, we gon' be alright

Huh? We gon' be alright

Nigga, 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

Behind my side we lookin' at you from the face down

What mac-11 even boom with the bass down

Schemin'! And let me tell you bout my life

Painkillers only put me in the twilight

What pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight

Now tell my mama 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 and my motherfucking gang can stand in silence for the record

Tell the world I know it's too late

The hoes, the girls think I gone crazy

Try and fight my vices all day

Won't you please believe when I say

[Pre-Hook]

When you know, we been hurt, been down before, nigga

When my pride was low, lookin' at the world like, "where do we go, nigga?"

And we hate Popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga

I'm at the preacher's door

My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow but we gon' be alright

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

What you want, a house or a car

40 acres and a mule, a piano a guitar

Anything, see my name is Lucy, I'm your dog

Motherfucker you can live at the mall

I can see the evil, I can tell it I know when it's illegal

I don't think about it, I deposit every other 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 see cool

If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you

Pet dog, pet dog, pet dog, my dog thats all

Pick back and chat I shut the back for y'all

I rap, I'm black, on track and rest assured

My rights, my wrongs are right till I'm right with God

[Pre-hook + Hook]

[Bridge]

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

[Outro]

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 screamin' in the hotel room

I didn't wanna self destruct, the evils of Lucy was all around me

So I went runnin' for answers