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Stop! Using the ?N? Word
Stop! Using The ?N? Word

Somethings disturbing those bodies, resting in freedoms graveyard
Someone insults those leaders who paid the price so we can be free
Someone forgot about the blood drip?n on the slave trade shipyards
Someone forgot about the beatings, the hatred and the misery
So like a fool you go out and call yo homie that evil word
And like a self hating brotha, you claim you?re doing it all with love
But in the halls of heaven, the leaders sing a song of shame
That all the cool young brothas address each other by that evil name

Stop! Using the ?N? Word
Stop! Using the ?N? Word


Someone has lied to my people and told?em it?s the way to be fly
Someone is laughing at the brotha?s who use the word and have no shame
Someone is so confused that they use a racist word on themselves
The very thing they called us is the very thing they became
So like a fool you go out and call your children that evil word
You claim that love is whats given when you call?em such an evil name
But all of you who remember the true meaning of the ?N? word
You?ve stand up and tell them,
you?ve got make your voices heard and tell?m to


You must respect, the sacrifices of your ancestors yeah
You must respect, the memories of those who died yeah
You must remember, the true meaning of the ?N? Word Yeah
You must replace it with a word that?s dignified

Beaten and chained, stripped our names, auctioned to the highest bidder like property. Stripped of our humanity
Hanging from trees, blowing like leaves, feathered and tarred to strip us of our dignity. Racism and bigotry are the roots of that word.
So listen to me, if it takes an eternity, we?ve got to be N word free by knowing the history of depravity through the use of that word


Why you got to use such a filthy nasty word huh
The racists are laughing at ya haven?t you heard?
Now I?m not trying to say that I just don?t understand
Its a word that I?ve heard all my life brotha man
But the truth will set you free and its screaming from above
The ?N? words not word for giving each other love
See if Martin Luther king were alive here today
He?d just hang his head in shame and loud as hell he would say

Stop! Using the ?N? Word