Y`all My Ni**as lyrics

Artist  : Nas 
Song : Y`all My Ni**as



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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



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



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



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