- Song Name: Niggaz 4 Life
- Artist Name: N.W.A.
- Album: Niggaz4life/100 Miles and Runnin'
- Songwriters: Andre Young, Bernie Worrell, Bootsy Collins, George (Jr) Clinton, Lorenzo Patterson, Tracy Curry
- Release Date: 2002.09.24
- Label: Priority Records
LYRICS FOR "Niggaz 4 Life"
Why do I call myself a nigga you ask me?
Well
And run me outta my neighborhood
They label me as a dope dealer
But I can't find jobs
Gave up some dope on the corner
When the cops came
Because the life in the streets is just a head game
So
A fifteen year old black kid will go and rob a liquor store
And get shot in the process
He ate up a nine bullet and now he's put to rest
Why do I call myself a nigga
I guess it's the way s*** has to be
Back
F***
Nine to five
And to help a nigga get out of
Yo
But most m************ only want you to stay down
But I'm a smart m***********
One of the best producers in the rap music industry
Gettin' paid like a mother f*****
A young brother
Why do I call myself a nigga
Because police always wanna harass me
Every time that I'm rollin'
They swear up and down that the car was stolen
Make me get faced down in the street
They throw the s*** out my car on the concrete
In front of a residence
A million white m************ on my back like I shot the President
Why do I call myself a nigga
Because my mouth is so mother f*****' nasty
B**** this
In the mean while my pockets are gettin' fat
Gettin' paid to say this s*** here
Makin' more in a week than a doctor makes in a year
So
It's better than pulling the trigger and goin' up the river
And don't I get called a nigga anyway?
Booked as a m*********** and locked away
So
Yo
Niggaz
If there's Hell below
Nigga
I'm treated like a f*****' disease
You say
'Cause I can reach in my draws and pull out a bigger dick
Yo
But
But I got to be a fast nigga to never be the last nigga
Or I have to beat your ass
In the city you see action first
Then hear about it later in a verse I curse
Because I'm real with this to keep my s*** straight bumpin'
Murder created by the streets of Compton
And I get it from the underground poet
I live it
And if you think I'm f****** your wife
Your mother f*****' right
Nigga
The actual fact is that I'm black and bound to attract
The attention of another
But I'm a mother f***** that'll have them running for cover
You see
Except getting paid
Which is all needed to read it and find a rhyme
And then it's time to say
But what about the fake niggas
To get paid quick they gotta suck a fat dick
But NWA is outta your mother f*****' range
We ain't gonna change a mother f*****' thing
I call myself a nigga 'cause my skin won't whiten
I call myself a nigga 'cause the s*** that I'm writing
Hypes me
And that's the reason why they wanna surround me
And ask me
Ain't none of their f*****' business 'cause I'll let the trigger go
So
'Cause MC Ren is a nigga 4 life
You're a nigga 'til you die
If you're a poor nigga
If you're a rich nigga
But you never stop being a nigga
And if you get to be educated
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
It's plain to see
'Cause I'ma be a nigga 4 life
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