Y'all My Nias-Nas

[ti:Y'all My Nias] [ar:Nas] [al:Untitled] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Y'all My Nias - Nas [00:00.90]We use the word everyday [00:01.82] [00:03.11]Now if we don't know the capacity of this word [00:04.83] [00:05.91]Are we headed for conflict or not [00:07.14] [00:09.50]Because we did not breakdown the capacity of the same what [00:13.51] [00:16.04]Brothers and sisters this is why we re still hung up in consciousness [00:17.98] [00:19.10]We've been taught wrong [00:19.84] [00:20.69]Find a room to lock yourself in and close the door [00:23.23]It's some heavy concepts that we gotta explore [00:25.66]We gotta strip the word down rugged and raw [00:28.29]The rhetoric of martin king just ain't around no more [00:30.69]Dave Bowie ain't here James Baldwin neither [00:32.96]They all were leaders [00:34.11]But they ain't help me get this Porsche two seater [00:35.99]A lawyer left the hood he never looked back [00:38.48]To be a fortune 500 CEO it took rap [00:41.05]So what if my pants sag with my hat turned back [00:43.59]The same swag got our merchandise flying off the rack [00:46.03] [00:46.71]Marketing companies that's hiring blacks [00:48.64]Fresh hip hop lingo for your campaign ads [00:51.20]The controversy surrounds who could say it and when [00:53.67]Some niggas are full time some play and pretend [00:56.42]So f**k that no apologies on the issue [00:58.61]If it offends you [00:59.69]It's meant to [01:00.07]It's that simple [01:01.04] [01:01.99]Trying to erase me from y'all memory [01:04.04]Too late I'm engraved in history I'm here my niggas [01:07.22]Speak my name and breath life in me [01:09.38]Make sure y'all never forget me cuz y'all give me life [01:12.26]Cause y'all use my name so reckless [01:14.50]Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it [01:17.50]And I love it especially when y'all do it in public [01:20.10]And I'm the subject [01:21.59]Cause y'all my niggas [01:22.43] [01:23.19]Yo I was thinking a little bit what would it take [01:25.32]To authenticate my nigganess [01:27.24]Ball ridiculous [01:28.49]26 inches when I call up the dealership [01:31.13]Ahh that's some ni**a sh*t [01:32.38]We only out for our own benefit [01:34.25]We having too many kids [01:35.58]We Claudine's welfare recipients [01:37.85]The infamous free clinics is the sickest sh*t [01:40.08]It make me think what the hell they clean they syringes with [01:43.03]Everybody bleeding [01:43.91]The cops are the demons [01:45.19]Courtrooms full of goons [01:46.40]Jail buses leaning [01:47.55]Handcuffs squeezed too tight [01:49.26]On youth life [01:50.06]If u fight they just give in [01:51.35]People used to do sit ins [01:52.56] [01:53.09]They got nigeria and niger two different countries [01:55.58]Somehow niger turned to nigger [01:57.10]And sh*t got ugly [01:58.28]The problem is we started thinking like the colonists [02:00.49]Til noble dru ali [02:01.62]Started dropping that consciousness [02:03.35]Trying to erase me from y'all memory [02:05.40]Too late I'm engraved in history I'm here my niggas [02:08.57]Speak my name and breath life in me [02:10.47]Make sure y'all never forget me cuz y'all give me life [02:13.70]Cause y'all use my name so reckless [02:15.54]Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it [02:18.85]And I love it especially when y'all do it in public [02:21.49]And I'm the subject [02:22.67]Cause y'all my niggas [02:23.80]My father was not a banker [02:24.79]Neither was my neighbor when it came to getting paper [02:27.00]Who the hell was gonna train us [02:28.80]A pressure couldn't escape us through the ages [02:30.85]We changed the basis of derogatory phrases [02:33.38] [02:34.63]And I say it's quite amazing [02:36.33]The use the ghetto terms developed our own language [02:38.35] [02:39.67]No matter where it came from [02:41.14]It's celebrated now people are mad if they ain't one [02:43.43] [02:46.75]Every word we use it has a capacity [02:49.94] [02:50.60]And if you don't understand [02:51.51]The word you're using and understand the capacity of it [02:54.08] [02:54.71]You are using words that is creating a destiny for you [02:58.81]That you don't even know or even conscience of [03:01.09] [03:04.42]Trying to erase me from y'all memory [03:06.64]Too late I'm engraved in history I'm here my niggas [03:09.81]Speak my name and breath life in me [03:11.58]Make sure y'all never forget me cuz y'all give me life [03:14.99]Cause y'all use my name so reckless [03:16.66]Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it [03:20.09]And I love it especially when y'all do it in public [03:22.76]And I'm the subject [03:23.78] [03:25.04]Trying to erase me from y'all memory [03:27.02]Too late I'm engraved in history [03:28.98] [03:30.01]Speak my name and breath life in me [03:32.26]Make sure y'all never forget me [03:33.75] [03:35.22]Cause y'all use my name so reckless [03:37.36]Whether to be accepted or disrespected and I love it [03:41.30]Especially when y'all do it in public [03:43.22]And I'm the subject [03:44.54]Cause y'all my niggas