[ti:Y'all My Niggas]
[ar:Nas]
[al:Untitled]

[00:00.58]We use the word everyday
[00:02.46]Now if we don』t know the capacity of this word
[00:05.18]Are we headed for conflict or not?
[00:08.49]Because we did not breakdown the capacity of the same what?
[00:13.68]Brothers and Sisters this is why we』re still hung up in consciousness
[00:18.65]we』ve been taught wrong.
[00:20.53]Find a room to lock yourself in and close the door
[00:22.80]It's some heavy concepts that we gotta explore
[00:25.33]We gotta strip the word down rugged and raw
[00:28.03]The rhetoric of martin king just aint around no more
[00:29.71]Dave bowie ain't here james baldwin neither
[00:31.96]They all were leaders
[00:34.07]But they ain't help me get this Porsche two seater
[00:35.77]A lawyer left the hood he never looked back
[00:38.24]To be a fortune 500 ceo it took rap
[00:40.57]So what if my pants sag with my hat turned back
[00:43.31]The same swag got our merchandise flying off the rack
[00:45.86]Marketing companies that's hiring blacks
[00:48.50]Fresh hip hop lingo for your campaign ads
[00:50.94]The controversy surrounds who could say it and when
[00:53.58]Some niggas are full time some play and pretend
[00:56.05]So f**k that no apologies on the issue
[00:59.06]If it offends you
[00:59.80]It's meant to
[01:00.56]It's that simple
[03:25.01][03:02.70][02:03.14][01:01.66]Tryin to erase me from y'all memory
[03:06.28][02:05.27][01:04.17]Too late I'm engraved in history (I'm here my niggas)
[03:29.17][03:09.25][02:07.95][01:06.41]Speak my name and breath life in me
[03:11.59][02:10.17][01:09.07]Make sure y'all never forget me (cuz y'all give me life)
[03:34.50][03:14.26][02:12.92][01:11.09]Cause y'all use my name so reckless
[03:16.65][02:15.15][01:13.87]Whether to be accepted or disrespected (and I love it)
[03:39.56][03:19.20][02:17.53][01:16.47]And I love it especially when y'all do it in public
[03:42.21][03:21.88][02:20.44][01:19.18]And I'm the subject
[03:44.09][03:24.19][02:22.17][01:21.08]Cause y'all my niggas
[01:22.44]Yo I was thinking a little bit what would it take
[01:25.52]To authenticate my nigganess
[01:27.04]Ball ridiculous
[01:28.22]26 inches when I call up the dealership
[01:30.00]Ahh that's some nigga shit
[01:32.06]We only out for our own benefit
[01:33.45]We havin』 too many kids
[01:35.49]We Claudine’s welfare recipients
[01:36.96]The infamous free clinics is the sickest shit
[01:39.67]It make me think what the hell they clean they syringes with
[01:42.05]Everybody bleedin
[01:43.77]The cops are the demons
[01:44.88]Courtrooms full of goons
[01:46.07]Jail buses leanin
[01:47.32]Handcuffs squeezed too tight
[01:48.66]On youth life
[01:49.96]If u fight they just give in
[01:51.27]People used to do sit ins
[01:52.56]They got Nigeria and Niger two different countries
[01:54.88]Somehow Niger turned to nigger
[01:56.81]And shit got ugly
[01:58.23]The problem is we started thinking like the colonists
[02:00.17]『Til Noble Dru Ali
[02:01.46]Started droppin that consciousness
[02:23.69]My father was not a banker
[02:24.65]Neither was my neighbor when it came to getting paper
[02:26.76]Who the hell was gonna train us
[02:28.41]A pressure couldn't escape us through the ages
[02:30.67]We changed the basis of derogatory phrases
[02:33.05]And I say it's quite amazing
[02:35.72]The use the ghetto terms developed our own language
[02:38.30]No matter where it came from
[02:40.81]It's celebrated now people are mad if they ain't one
[02:46.19]Every word we use- It has a capacity
[02:50.49]And if you don』t understand the word you』re using and understand the capcity of it
[02:54.68]You are using words that is creating a destiny for you
[02:58.40]that you don』t even know or even conscience of
[03:26.97]Too late I'm engraved in history
[03:31.87]Make sure y'all never forget me
[03:37.03]Whether to be accepted or disrespected
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