Everything Will Be Okay

Everything Will Be Okay

Triumphs and sacrifices are things that mold a person into who they are and what they will become. Every opportunity has a cost and every person has a choice. Aspiring artists lose a lot to gain a lot. G-Eazy, a rapper from the Bay Area of California knows first-hand the difficulties of growing his fame. “Everything Will Be Okay” is a song he wrote about the hardships of his childhood and the troubles he faced leaving home and developing his dream into a reality. Throughout the song we see an echoing theme of positivity expressed by featured artist’s repetitive and a soothing “Everything Will Be Okay” chorus line. The song reflects the guilt felt for pursuing the dream of a lifetime when family is sacrificed. The song displays sacrifice through many anecdotes of the artist’s life.

To give up normality and risk everything to reach dreams can have consequences, the listener understands this through G’s past experiences. Quoted in the first verse of the song “Contemplating just who I coulda turned out to be. If I'd've stayed and weren’t heard, what would amount to me?” (verse 1). Is the first look at an example of G-Eazy questioning his fate if he had not pursued his career. A few lines into verse one G also makes a statement that when people leave by the time they get back they have already been replaced by someone else. That message shows how sacrificing loved ones to chase dreams can be challenging to get past but it is important to keep a goal in mind. The beginning of the song is a reflection of his past choices; leaving his family, girlfriend, and lifestyle. The song tells the listener that to get where you want

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to be in life you must put yourself forward regardless of the challenge.

Taking the path less traveled is a saying used by all at some point in their lives. The listener gets to see in this paragraph G’s journey through that path. The second verse starts off with a bang “I had to wander, I had to go tread my own path. If you don’t step in no mud well then it won’t last” (Verse 2). In this line we are reunited with the theme of sacrifice. To succeed and turn dreams into realities people must go through the path less taken which involves hardship, dedication, and sacrifice. The song explains that over the years of taking this path to the life he always desired his dream was approaching and his family was diminishing. Life events such as sickness, job losses, and poverty were consuming those he had to sacrifice to be where he is now. The guilt faced was presented to the listener by adding quotes from his younger brother from those times. For example, “Where were you when she was in the hospital?... it was only us…Like when she lost her job and everything, how broke we was…she needed some taking care of and a fifteen-year-old had to shoulder the weight” (verse 2). The listener starts to see the big picture of what sacrifices were being made when the lack of knowledge of his own mother’s sickness and job loss are stated.

Within a song many themes are presented and some can stand out more than others. In this paragraph we start to see a new theme that helps to mold G into the man he is today. The third verse starts dramatically changing the theme to except change and having to become a man early in life. The listener is presented with a flashback to the beginning of G’s life in the third verse. The first lines include these dramatic quotes, “first grade class they came and got me…Way too young to comprehend what was happening” (verse 3). These two quotes represent childhood being stripped away and this leads to his transition into a man. The song brings

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another character into play named Melissa. At this point we are presented with change, “In middle school, I ain’t understand who Melissa was and why she wasn’t another man” (Verse 3). This line gives us the fact that his mom left his dad for a woman, and it states, G was not able to accept why his mother wasn’t with another man. To support this claim I included a quote, “Biased