Y'all My Ni**as Lyrics
Nas
- We use the word everyday
- Now, if we don’t know the capacity of this word
- Are we having a conflict or not? Yes sir
- Because we did not break down the capacity
- Of the same, what? The same word
- Brothers and sisters this is why
- We hung up in our consciousness
- We been talking wrong
- Find a room to lock yourself in and close the door
- It’s some heavy concepts that we gotta explore
- We gotta strip the word down, rugged and raw
- The rhetoric of Martin King just ain’t around no more
- Du Bois ain’t here, James Baldwin either, they all were leaders
- But they ain’t help me get this Porsche two-seater
- A lawyer left the hood, he never looked back
- To be a Fortune 500 CEO, it took rap
- So what if my pants sag with my hat turned back
- The same swag got our merchandise flying off the rack
- Marketing companies is hiring blacks
- Fresh hip-hop lingo for your campaign ads
- The controversy surrounds who could say it and win
- Some niggas are full time, some play and pretend
- So fuck that, no apologies on the issue if it offends you
- It’s meant to, it’s that simple
- Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
- Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
- Speak my name and breathe life in me
- Make sure y'all never forget me, y'all give me life
- ’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
- Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it
- And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
- And I’m the subject ‘cause y'all my niggas
- Yo, I was thinking a little bit
- What would it take to authenticate my nigganess?
- Ball ridiculous, twenty six inches when I call up the dealership?
- Aw, that's some nigga shit
- We only out for our own benefit? We havin’ too many kids?
- We’re claudines, welfare recipients
- The infamous free clinics is the sickest shit
- Make me think what the hell they clean their syringes with
- Everybody bleeding, the cops and the demons
- Courtrooms full of goons, jail-busters leaning
- Handcuffs squeezed too tight on you flight
- If you fight they just give in, people used to do sit ins
- They got Nigeria and Niger two different countries
- Somehow Niger turned to nigger and shit got ugly
- The problem is we started thinking like the colonists
- To know the [Incomprehensible] started dropping their consciousness
- Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
- Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
- Speak my name and breathe life in me
- Make sure y'all never forget me, y'all give me life
- ’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
- Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it
- And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
- And I’m the subject ‘cause y'all my niggas
- My father was not a banker neither was my neighbor
- When it came to getting paper, who the hell was gonna train us?
- A pressure couldn't escape us through the ages
- We changed the basis of derogatory phrases
- And I say it’s quite amazing
- The use of ghetto terms, developed our own language
- No matter where it came from
- It’s celebrated, now, people are mad if they ain't one
- Every word we use, it has a capacity
- And if you don’t understand the word you’re using
- And understand the capacity of it
- You are using words that is creating a destiny for you
- That you don’t even know or are even conscious of
- Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
- Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
- Speak my name and breathe life in me
- Make sure y'all never forget me, y'all give me life
- ’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
- Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it
- And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
- And I’m the subject
- Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
- Too late, I’m engraved in history
- Speak my name and breathe life in me
- Make sure y'all never forget me
- ’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
- Whether to be accepted or disrespected
- And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
- And I’m the subject ‘cause y'all my niggas
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