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Mos Def
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Say ho, everybody say ho
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By the way yo
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I said shake your soul like way back in the day-yo
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By the way yo, everybody say ho
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Everybody say,
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Everybody say
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And check it out now
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Who is the cat eating out on the town
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And make the whole dining room turn they head round
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk
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Who be riding up in the high rise elevator
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Other tenants who be praying they ain't the new neighbor
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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They try to play him like a chump cause he got what they want
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He under thirty years old but already he's a pro
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Designer trousers slung low cause his pockets stay swoll'
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Could afford to get up and be anywhere he go
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V.I.P. at the club, backstage at the show
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(Yes y'all) the best crib, the best clothes
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Hottest whips on the road neck and wrists on froze (say word)
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Checks with O's o-o-o-o-ohs
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Straight all across the globe watch got three time-zones
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Keep the digital phone up to his dome
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Two assistants, two bank accounts, two homes
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One problem; even with the O's on his check
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The po-po stop him and show no respect
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"Is there a problem officer?" Damn straight, it's called race
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That motivate the jake (woo-woo) to give chase
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Say they want you successful, but that ain't the case
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You living large, your skin is dark they flash a light in your face
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Now, who is cat dining out on the town
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Maitre'd wanna take a whole year to sit him down
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk
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Now, who is the cat at Armani buying wears
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With the tourists who be asking him, do you work here?
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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Nigga Nigga
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Yo, the Abstract with the Mighty Mos Def
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White folks got it muffled across beneath they breathe
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"I didn't say it"
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But they'll say it out loud again
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When they get with they close associates and friends
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You know, sneak it in with they friends at the job
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Happy hour at the bar while this song is in they car
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And even if they've never said it, lips stay sealed
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They actions reveal how their hearts really feel
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Like, late night I'm on a first class flight
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The only brother in sight the flight attendant catch fright
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I sit down in my seat, 2C
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She approach officially talking about, "Excuse me"
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Her lips curl up into a tight space
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Cause she don't believe that I'm in the right place
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Showed her my boarding pass, and then she sort of gasped
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All embarrassed put an extra lime on my water glass
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An hour later here she comes by walking past
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"I hate to be a pest but my son would love your autograph"
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(Wow, Mr. Nigga I love you, I have all your albums!)
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They stay on nigga patrol on american roads
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And when you travel abroad they got world nigga law
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Some folks get on a plane go as they please
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But I go over seas and I get over-seized
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London Heathrow, me and my people
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They think that illegal's a synonym for negro
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Far away places, customs agents flagrant
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They think the dark face is smuggle weight in they cases
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Bags inspected, now we arrested
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Attention directed to contents of our intestines
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Urinalysis followed by X-rays
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Interrogated and detained til damn near the next day
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No evidence, no apology and no regard
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Even for the big american rap star
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For us especially, us most especially
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A Mr Nigga VIP jail cell just for me
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"If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake
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Just got some shoe-polish, painted my face"
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They say they want you successful, but then they make it stressful
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You start keeping pace, they start changing up the tempo
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Now, who is cat riding out on the town
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State trooper wanna stop him in his ride, pat him down
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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He got the speakers in the trunk with the bass on crunk
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Now, who is the cat with the hundred dollar bill
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They gotta send it to the back to make sure the shit is real
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Mr Nigga, Nigga Nigga
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Nigga Nigga, Nigga
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You can laugh and criticize Michael Jackson if you wanna
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Woody Allen, molested and married his step-daughter
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Same press kicking dirt on Michael's name
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Show Woody and Soon-Yi at the playoff game, holding hands
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Sit back and just bug, think about that
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Would he get that type of dap if his name was Woody Black?
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O.J. found innocent by a jury of his peers
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And they been fucking with that nigga for last five years
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Is it fair, is it equal, is it just, is it right?
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Do you do the same shit when the defendant face is white?
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If white boys doing it, well, it's success
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When I start doing, well, it's suspect
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Don't hate me, my folks is poor, I just got money
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America's five centuries deep in cotton money
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You see a lot of brothers caked up, yo straight up
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It's new, y'all living off of slave traders paper
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But I'm a live though, yo I'm a live though
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I'm putting up the big swing for my kids yo
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Got my mom the fat water-front crib yo
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I'm a get her them pretty bay windows
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I'm a cop a nice home to provide in
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A safe environment for seeds to reside in
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A fresh whip for my whole family to ride in
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And if I'm still Mr Nigga, I won't find it suprising
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