Y'all My Niggas 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 

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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 

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 

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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? 

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