Sucka Nigga

by A Tribe Called Quest

From the album: Midnight Marauders

Duration: 04:05

Midnight Marauders cover art

Lyrics for Sucka Nigga

Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, who— Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are, whoever you are (Ayo) Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are (Turn it up in my headphones, turn everything up in the headphones) Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are (Including my vocals) Hey, sucka nigga, who— hey, sucka nigga (Yeah, that’s good, and my vocals a little bit) Whoever you are, whoever you are (Put the upper bass line in) I be hatin’ sucka MCs, and the sucka niggas Posin’ like they hard when we know they damn card What you figure? Rhyme-wise, I do the figure-eight so concisely Musically, we are the herb, so sit back and light me Inhale My style is kinda phat, reminiscent of a whale Young girls’ desires, older females’ dreams I be the Abstract Poetic representin’ from Queens Socially, I’m not inane, black and white, got game If you came to the jam, well, I’m glad you came See, “nigga,” first was used back in the Deep South Fallin’ out between the dome of the white man’s mouth It means that we will never grow, you know the word, dummy Upper niggas in the community think it’s crummy But I don’t, neither does the youth ‘cause we em— Brace adversity, it goes right with the race And bein’ that we use it as a term of endearment Niggas start to bug, to the dome is where the fear went Now the little shorties say it all of the time And a whole bunch of niggas throw the word in they rhyme Yo, I start to flinch, as I try not to say it But my lips is like a oowop as I start to spray it My lips is like a oowop as I start to spray it My lips is like a oowop as I start to spray The sucka nigga, nigga-nigga I throw the “sucka” in the front for the ones that front The sucka niggas, nigga-nigga I throw the “sucka” in the front for the ones that front The sucka niggas, nigga-nigga I throw the “sucka” in the front for the ones that front The sucka niggas, nigga-nigga It’s the neo-nigga of the ‘90s, c’mon Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, who— Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are, whoever you are (Nigga) Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, who— Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are, whoever you are (I be) I be hatin’ sucka MCs and the sucka niggas (Hatin’) Posin’ like they hard when we know they damn card What ya figure? (I don’t know) Rhyme-wise, I do the figure-eight so concisely (So concise) Musically, we are the herb, so sit back and light me Inhale (Inhale, inhale) My style is kinda phat, reminiscent of a whale Young girls’ desires, older females’ dreams I be the Abstract Poetic representin’ from Queens Socially, I’m not inane, black and white, got game If you came to the jam, well, I’m glad you came See, “nigga,” first was used down in the Deep South Fallin’ out between the dome of the white man’s mouth It means that we will never grow, you know the word, dummy Upper niggas in the community think it’s crummy But I don’t, neither does the youth ‘cause we em— Brace adversity, it goes right with the race Yo, I start to flinch as I try not to say it But my lips is like a oowop as I start to spray it My lips is like a oowop as I start to spray it My lips is like a oowop, yo, you know the rest (Nigga) The sucka niggas, niggas-niggas I throw the “sucka” in the front for the ones that front The sucka niggas, nigga-nigga I throw the “sucka”s in the front for the ones that front (Nigga) The sucka niggas, nigga-nigga I throw the “sucka” in the front for the ones that front Sucka niggas, nigga-nigga Ayo, Shaheed, take us the fuck outta here Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, who— Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are, whoever you are (Nigga) Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are Hey, sucka nigga, who— Hey, sucka nigga, whoever you are, whoever you are (Nigga) You’re not any less of a man if you don’t pull trigger You’re not necessarily a man if you do

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