When we call each other "nigger"
Do you think that makes us bigger?

(You say there's a difference between "nigger" and "nigga"
But slaves been calling themselves "nigga"
ever since they learned to say masta.
And if you think you're saying something different...
Don't fool yourself...slave)

Anyway, back to what I was saying...
When we call each other "nigger"
Do you think that makes us bigger?
Huh? Is that what you think?
How you figure?
While y'all playing
Do you realize what you're saying?

Self creation evolves from our name
We'll become what we proclaim
So folks we speak insane
What? To be "niggers" become our aim?
No! But thats how we've been trained
Still got chains around the brain
Our self-defeat so deep ingrained
that we all laugh to hide the pain

And it's crazy how we fuss
Can't call it nothing else
The way we cuss when they call us
The same name we call ourselves!
But a white voice will make you remember
All the misery and pain
When  "crackers" called us "nigga"
As we were raped and hanged
Tortured and dismembered
All the evil that was done!
So now we call us "nigga"
And say it's all in fun

Now ain't that neurotic?
I mean Ain't that confusion?!
"Nigger" lives be so chaotic
Cause they living in delusion!
Now I know folks disagree with me
They say it's my mistake
And if a brother calls me his "nigga"
Well that's all love and not self-hate

But it is self-hatred
Can't you see the contradiction?
You might have made the N word sacred
But you ain't changed the definition!
And everytime that a brother dies
Because a black man pulled a trigger...
You tell me the reason why
The last word's always"nigger"!