Y'all My Ni**as Lyrics - Untitled - Nas

We use the word everyday 

Now, if we dont 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 

Its some heavy concepts that we gotta explore 

We gotta strip the word down, rugged and raw 

The rhetoric of Martin King just aint around no more 

Du Bois aint here, James Baldwin either, they all were leaders 

But they aint 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 

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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 

Its meant to, its that simple 

Tryin to erase me from y'all memory 

Too late, Im engraved in history, Im 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 Im the subject cause y'all my niggas 

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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? 

Were 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 started dropping their consciousness 

Tryin to erase me from y'all memory 

Too late, Im engraved in history, Im 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 Im 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 its quite amazing 

The use of ghetto terms, developed our own language 

No matter where it came from 

Its celebrated, now, people are mad if they ain't one 

Every word we use, it has a capacity 

And if you dont understand the word youre using 

And understand the capacity of it 

You are using words that is creating a destiny for you 

That you dont even know or are even conscious of 

Tryin to erase me from y'all memory 

Too late, Im engraved in history, Im 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 Im the subject 

Tryin to erase me from y'all memory 

Too late, Im 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 Im the subject cause y'all my niggas