Niggas chords by
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor

N/A
Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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G
Niggas are the best
of people that were slaves.
You know what mean?
And that's how they got
to be niggas.
Because they stole the cream of the crop from
Africa
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Bb
and brought them over here.
G
G
And God, as they say, works in mysterious
ways.
So he made everybody a nigga,
because we was arguing over in Africa
about the Watusi and the Buhara,
there was the Humo,
and you know, the Zamunga,
you know.
We thought, well, yeah!
In different languages.
So he brought us all over here, the best.
The kings, the queens,
and the princesses,
and the princes, you know.
You know, I mean shit
and put us all together
called one tribe niggas
Don't call you black you a negro
you saw them kids in school
You ever told them dudes
to get mad a motherfucker,
right?
You'd be dumber.
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B
I'll say black boy say man
G
G
What you mean black?
Baby, I'm color. I Don't play
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D
that shit
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G
My parents was like that,
know cousin in my neighborhood,
you know used to be some beautiful black
man would come through the neighborhood dressing
African shit, you know,
really nice shit
You know, and they'd be peace
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Am
G
G
love black is beautiful
Remember the essence of life.
We are people of the universe
and life is beautiful.
My parents go that nigga crazy
You know, I used to love
go to the meetings though when
you get down
I got ultra black for a while
No, I did.
I got down into it.
I was into
I go to meetings shit and brothers be rapping
I never knew what they were saying though,
but the brother be having
emotion you see the
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C
Transitionalization
F
F
within the imperialist society
G
G
has represented a cause
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Am
G
G
whereas we can entangle and
Understand the mass procedure
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F
now you may not dig this bro, but dig this
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G
F
F
The first thing you got to know
G
G
is by eating pork
now you eat a piece of pork
You don't realize the suffocations
of this individuality's prospect
what the man trying to lay on
you through pork
itis you will not understand
because the trichinosis of
your mind
would not relinquish the thought
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C
of individuality.
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G
You know what mean?
So therefore, you must assimilate
within a functional society,
not the society, but the us -ciety,
because without the S,
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F
there's no us involved.
We must manipulate ourselves
through the transitional rise form
G
G
in order to cast a womb -ness
that a black child can be born forthwith,
individual and not.

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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Bb B D Am...