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