We only out for our own benefit? We havin’ too many kids?
Find a room to lock yourself in and close the door
Some niggas are full time, some play and pretend
To know the [Incomprehensible] started dropping their consciousness
Make sure y'all never forget me
We changed the basis of derogatory phrases
Make sure y'all never forget me, y'all give me life
We been talking wrong
And I’m the subject
A pressure couldn't escape us through the ages
Handcuffs squeezed too tight on you flight
The rhetoric of Martin King just ain’t around no more
Of the same, what? The same word
It’s some heavy concepts that we gotta explore
Make me think what the hell they clean their syringes with
Brothers and sisters this is why
Ball ridiculous, twenty six inches when I call up the dealership?
But they ain’t help me get this Porsche two-seater
Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it
And understand the capacity of it
The use of ghetto terms, developed our own language
Whether to be accepted or disrespected
Aw, that's some nigga shit
So what if my pants sag with my hat turned back
Because we did not break down the capacity
Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
To be a Fortune 500 CEO, it took rap
We’re claudines, welfare recipients
Courtrooms full of goons, jail-busters leaning
Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
So fuck that, no apologies on the issue if it offends you
’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
The problem is we started thinking like the colonists
And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
Marketing companies is hiring blacks
No matter where it came from
My father was not a banker neither was my neighbor
’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
And I say it’s quite amazing
And if you don’t understand the word you’re using
The controversy surrounds who could say it and win
They got Nigeria and Niger two different countries
Yo, I was thinking a little bit
Are we having a conflict or not? Yes sir
We gotta strip the word down, rugged and raw
When it came to getting paper, who the hell was gonna train us?
Everybody bleeding, the cops and the demons
Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
Du Bois ain’t here, James Baldwin either, they all were leaders
Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it
’Cause y'all use my name so reckless
Fresh hip-hop lingo for your campaign ads
And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
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
Tryin’ to erase me from y'all memory
Too late, I’m engraved in history
That you don’t even know or are even conscious of
Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
Somehow Niger turned to nigger and shit got ugly
The same swag got our merchandise flying off the rack
If you fight they just give in, people used to do sit ins
And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
The infamous free clinics is the sickest shit
Every word we use, it has a capacity
We hung up in our consciousness
And I love it, especially when y'all do it in public
Speak my name and breathe life in me
You are using words that is creating a destiny for you
And I’m the subject ‘cause y'all my niggas
It’s celebrated, now, people are mad if they ain't one
What would it take to authenticate my nigganess?
Speak my name and breathe life in me
Speak my name and breathe life in me
And I’m the subject ‘cause y'all my niggas
A lawyer left the hood, he never looked back
It’s meant to, it’s that simple
Make sure y'all never forget me, y'all give me life
Too late, I’m engraved in history, I’m here, my niggas
