Mrnigga
Mos Def

Say ho, everybody say ho

By the way yo

I said shake your soul like way back in the day-yo

By the way yo, everybody say ho

Everybody say,

Everybody say

And check it out now

Who is the cat eating out on the town

And make the whole dining room turn they head round

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk

Who be riding up in the high rise elevator

Other tenants who be praying they ain't the new neighbor

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

They try to play him like a chump cause he got what they want

He under thirty years old but already he's a pro

Designer trousers slung low cause his pockets stay swoll'

Could afford to get up and be anywhere he go

V.I.P. at the club, backstage at the show

(Yes y'all) the best crib, the best clothes

Hottest whips on the road neck and wrists on froze (say word)

Checks with O's o-o-o-o-ohs

Straight all across the globe watch got three time-zones

Keep the digital phone up to his dome

Two assistants, two bank accounts, two homes

One problem; even with the O's on his check

The po-po stop him and show no respect

Is there a problem officer? Damn straight, it's called race

That motivate the jake (woo-woo) to give chase

Say they want you successful, but that ain't the case

You living large, your skin is dark they flash a light in your face

Now, who is cat dining out on the town

Maitre'd wanna take a whole year to sit him down

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk

Now, who is the cat at Armani buying wears

With the tourists who be asking him, do you work here?

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

Nigga Nigga

Yo, the Abstract with the Mighty Mos Def

White folks got it muffled across beneath they breathe

I didn't say it

But they'll say it out loud again

When they get with they close associates and friends

You know, sneak it in with they friends at the job

Happy hour at the bar while this song is in they car

And even if they've never said it, lips stay sealed

They actions reveal how their hearts really feel

Like, late night I'm on a first class flight

The only brother in sight the flight attendant catch fright

I sit down in my seat, 2C

She approach officially talking about, Excuse me

Her lips curl up into a tight space

Cause she don't believe that I'm in the right place

Showed her my boarding pass, and then she sort of gasped

All embarrassed put an extra lime on my water glass

An hour later here she comes by walking past

I hate to be a pest but my son would love your autograph

(Wow, Mr. Nigga I love you, I have all your albums!)

They stay on nigga patrol on american roads

And when you travel abroad they got world nigga law

Some folks get on a plane go as they please

But I go over seas and I get over-seized

London Heathrow, me and my people

They think that illegal's a synonym for negro

Far away places, customs agents flagrant

They think the dark face is smuggle weight in they cases

Bags inspected, now we arrested

Attention directed to contents of our intestines

Urinalysis followed by X-rays

Interrogated and detained til damn near the next day

No evidence, no apology and no regard

Even for the big american rap star

For us especially, us most especially

A Mr Nigga VIP jail cell just for me

If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake

Just got some shoe-polish, painted my face

They say they want you successful, but then they make it stressful

You start keeping pace, they start changing up the tempo

Now, who is cat riding out on the town

State trooper wanna stop him in his ride, pat him down

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk

Now, who is the cat with the hundred dollar bill

They gotta send it to the back to make sure the shit is real

Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga

Nigga Nigga, Nigga

You can laugh and criticize Michael Jackson if you wanna

Woody Allen, molested and married his step-daughter

Same press kicking dirt on Michael's name

Show Woody and Soon-Yi at the playoff game, holding hands

Sit back and just bug, think about that

Would he get that type of dap if his name was Woody Black?

O.J. found innocent by a jury of his peers

And they been fucking with that nigga for last five years

Is it fair, is it equal, is it just, is it right?

Do you do the same shit when the defendant face is white?

If white boys doing it, well, it's success

When I start doing, well, it's suspect

Don't hate me, my folks is poor, I just got money

America's five centuries deep in cotton money

You see a lot of brothers caked up, yo straight up

It's new, y'all living off of slave traders paper

But I'm a live though, yo I'm a live though

I'm putting up the big swing for my kids yo

Got my mom the fat water-front crib yo

I'm a get her them pretty bay windows

I'm a cop a nice home to provide in

A safe environment for seeds to reside in

A fresh whip for my whole family to ride in

And if I'm still Mr Nigga, I won't find it suprising


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  A Ha   A Soldier's Dream   All Praise Due   All Praises Due   America   Astronomy   Astronomy (8th Light)   Auditorium   B Boys Will B Boys   Beautiful   Beauty In The Dark (Groove With You)   Bedstuy Parade   Bedstuy Parade & Funeral March   Beef   Beef [#]   Black & Blue   Black Jack   Blak Iz Blak   Blue Black Jack   Body Rock   Body Rock (Featuring Q-Tip & Tash)   Boogie Man Song   Breakdown   Brooklyn   Brown Skin Lady   Brown Sugar (Extra Sweet)   Brown Sugar (Fine)   Brown Sugar (Raw)   Caldonia   Casa Bey   Champion Requiem   Children's Story   Climb   Climb - Featuring Vinia Mojica   Close Edge   Come On   Crime & Medicine   Crime and Medicine   Definition   Definition [Instrumental]   Destination Love   Do It Now   Dollar Day   Dollar Day (Surprise Surprise)   Drunk and Hot Girls   Embassy   Excellence   Fake Bonanza   Fear Not of Man   Fear Not Of Men   Freak Daddy   Freaky Black Greetings   Freestyle   Freestyle Over Instrumental   Ghetto Rock   Ghetto Rock [Instrumental]   Good Night   Got   Grown Man Business   Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles)   Habitat   Hater Players   Hip Hop   History   Hurricane   I Against I   If Looks Could Kill (You Would Be Dead)   If You Can Huh! You Can Hear   If You Can Huh...   Invisible Game   Jam on It   Jam on It [Instrumental]   Joy   K.O.S. (Determination)   Kalifornia   Know That   Life in Marvelous Times   Life Is Real   Lifetime   Love   Love Rain [Coffee Shop Mix]   Love Rain [Coffee Shop Mix]   Love Rain [Head Nod Remix]   Mathematics   May-December   Miss Fat Booty   Modern Marvel   Mos Def Freestyle   Mos Def-Grown Man Business (Fresh Vintage Bottles)   Mr. Nigga   Ms Fat Booty   Ms. Fat Booty   Ms. Fat Booty 2   Msfat Booty   Much Respect To Michael Jordan (Nike Commercial)   Murder of a Teenage Life   Nadine   Napoleon Dynamite   New World Water   Next Universe   Niggas In Poorest   No Hay Nada Mas   No Particular Place To Go   Oh No   On My Own   Pistola   Pretty Dancer   Priority   Promised Land   Quiet Dog   Quiet Dog (Bite Hard)   Quiet Dog Bite Hard   RE: DEFinition   RE:DEFinition   Reminisce   Respiration   Revelations   Rock N Roll   Roses   Sex, Love & Money   Sex, Love & Money [Album Version Explicit]   Sex, Love & Money [Instrumental]   Sex, Love & Money   Six Days   Speed Law   Sun, Moon, Stars   Sunshine   Supermagic   Supreme Supreme   Sweepstakes   The Beggar   The Boogie Man Song   The Day   The Easy Spell   The Embassy   The Glow   The Jump Off   The Jump Off [*]   The Light Is Not Afraid Of The Dark   The Panties   The Rape Over   The Undeniable   Theives In The Night   There Is A Way   Thieves in the Night   This Means You   Thug Is a Drug   Travellin Man (Remix)   Travellin' Man   True Magic   Twice Inna Lifetime   Twilite Speedball   U R the One   Umi Says   Umi Says [Live]   Umi Says [Ritual Session]   Undeniable   Universal Magnetic   Very Well   Wahid   War   Water   Workers Comp   Workers Comp.   Wylin Out   Wylin Out [Instrumental]   Wylin Out [Original Version]   Yo Yeah   You Are Undeniable   Zimzallabim

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