Y'all My Ni**as
Nas
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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 Do 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 n****s are full time, some play and pretend So f*** 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 n****s 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 n****s Yo, I was thinking a little bit What would it take to authenticate my n****ness? Ball ridiculous, twenty six inches when I call up the dealership? Aw, that's some n**** s*** We only out for our own benefit? We havin? too many kids? We're claudines, welfare recipients The infamous free clinics is the sickest s*** 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 n***** and s*** got ugly The problem is we started thinking like the colonists To know the ? started dropping their consciousness Tryin? to erase me from y'all memory Too late, I'm engraved in history, I'm here, my n****s 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 n****s 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 n****s 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 n****s
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Written by: Jamaal Sublett, Nasir Jones
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