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作词 : Nasir Jones/Jamaal Sublett |
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作曲 : Nasir Jones/Jamaal Sublett |
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We use the word everyday |
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Now if we don’t know the capacity of this word |
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Are we headed for conflict or not? |
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Because we did not breakdown the capacity of the same what? |
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Brothers and Sisters this is why we’re still hung up in consciousness |
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we’ve been taught wrong. |
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Find a room to lock yourself in and close the door |
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It's some heavy concepts that we gotta explore |
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We gotta strip the word down rugged and raw |
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The rhetoric of martin king just aint around no more |
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Dave bowie ain't here james baldwin neither |
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They all were leaders |
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But they ain't help me get this Porsche two seater |
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A lawyer left the hood he never looked back |
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To be a fortune 500 ceo it took rap |
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So what if my pants sag with my hat turned back |
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The same swag got our merchandise flying off the rack |
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Marketing companies that's hiring blacks |
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Fresh hip hop lingo for your campaign ads |
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The controversy surrounds who could say it and when |
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Some ****** are full time some play and pretend |
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So **** that no apologies on the issue |
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If it offends you |
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It's meant to |
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It's that simple |
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Tryin to erase me from y'all memory |
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Too late I'm engraved in history (I'm here my ******) |
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Speak my name and breath life in me |
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Make sure y'all never forget me (cuz y'all give me life) |
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Cause y'all use my name so reckless |
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Whether to be accepted or disrespected (and I love it) |
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And I love it especially when y'all do it in public |
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And I'm the subject |
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Cause y'all my ****** |
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Yo I was thinking a little bit what would it take |
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To authenticate my ********* |
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Ball ridiculous |
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26 inches when I call up the dealership |
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Ahh that's some ***** **** |
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We only out for our own benefit |
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We havin’ too many kids |
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We Claudine’s welfare recipients |
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The infamous free clinics is the sickest **** |
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It make me think what the hell they clean they syringes with |
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Everybody bleedin |
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The cops are the demons |
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Courtrooms full of goons |
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Jail buses leanin |
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Handcuffs squeezed too tight |
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On youth life |
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If u fight they just give in |
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People used to do sit ins |
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They got Nigeria and Niger two different countries |
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Somehow Niger turned to nigger |
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And **** got ugly |
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The problem is we started thinking like the colonists |
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‘Til Noble Dru Ali |
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Started droppin that consciousness |
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My father was not a banker |
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Neither was my neighbor when it came to getting paper |
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Who the hell was gonna train us |
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A pressure couldn't escape us through the ages |
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We changed the basis of derogatory phrases |
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And I say it's quite amazing |
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The use the ghetto terms developed our own language |
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No matter where it came from |
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It's celebrated now people are mad if they ain't one |
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Every word we use- It has a capacity |
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And if you don’t understand the word you’re using and understand the capcity of it |
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You are using words that is creating a destiny for you |
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that you don’t even know or even conscience of |
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Too late I'm engraved in history |
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Make sure y'all never forget me |
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Whether to be accepted or disrespected |
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