[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] [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 [03:46.47]