From Baltimore to Los Angeles From '99 to the year we're in We started out in a friend's garage At the bottom up reaching for the top now
The video The radio The TV shows The magazines The movie screens That's our reality
Everything's gonna be alright now Get down stay up all night now Everything's gonna be alright now Everybody say it one more time
Everything Is gonna be alright
Listen up, cause it ain't about the money I live on the west coast in the city that's sunny I got a big house where my family lives I'm out of town playing shows every other weekend I DJ parties where they got no guns I get paid to make 'em dance, I get paid for having fun With thugs and punks and any other type We play this song and we sing it all night
Sayin' Everything's alright From the top to the bottom, from the bottom to the top From the start to the finish No, we just can't stop
Everything's alright From the city to the hills And the streets to the beaches It feels good to pay the bills And buy a new pair of sneakers
Said, it didn't take me long to kick the welfare It didn't take me long to get my share Take away platinum records, now look what I got I got my girl, I got my daughter, that's a hell of a lot And no one's ever trying to shut this down I'd have a party for the haters but they're never around I had dreams of putting food on other people's plate Now we go to the arounds and they never make us wait
My police record said it doesn't exist I'll show you all the meaning of a Christmas list I'll show you all the meaning of a Christmas list I'll show you I'll show you I'll show you
We are so far from where we started out These lives we lead without a care Self made millionaires we promised you These lives we lead without a care