nigga

And you should love it, way more then you hate it Nigga, you mad?

Word comes from a rap/hip-hop slang (most probably derives from the phrase word up) and serves as a laconic means of expressing utter agreement with the previous speaker/interlocutor; in fact, it is an antonym of nigga please.

The social critique related to black identity in the work of Don Omar echoes the presence of the mythical and folkloric African-American figures of the badman and nigga, so ubiquitous in gangsta rap.

Jordan: Man, she's way too happenin' for a nigga like you.

* Not to be left out, in 2005, actor/comedian Damon Wayans attempted to trademark the word "Nigga" for use in a clothing line.

The track "N-Word" evokes the spirit if not the style of The Last Poets, a group whose song "Die, Nigga!!!" was about the negativity and self-hatred that comes from the self-identification of the word.

Aiming more for the head than the heart, films like the short, Save My Lost Nigga' Soul (1993), and his debut feature, Rude (1995), revelled in their heightened aesthetic strategies.

I know the game, so I'm a do the same Don't like when I play the same way And say, hey, freedom got an A-K You better call 9-1-1 The nigga's got a gun.(12) Such a parody of the `American system' often provides short-term benefit for the participants.

Thus, when Ice Cube says, "Let the suburbs see a nigga invasion/Point-blank, smoke the Caucasian," many whites interpret that as an incitement to violence.

"I got a whole 'nother tape with this nigga," Carti says.

'I met another nigga who has been in jail for over 2 years because he is in a relationship with one rich woman's daughter and the woman locked him up for not leaving her daughter'

"Like I said, nigga, every musician has his last gig," Joe repeated.

While most common of them used terms such as 'white boy', 'paki', 'white boy', 'nigga', 'spic', 'crow', 'squinty' and 'wigga', Think tank Demos, which conducted the research, said the majority of slurs identified in its study were used in a non-offensive manner.

I'm a real nigga and you ask your dad about me, he's seen things.

Irene makes the point with humor when, sitting down to grade papers at the kitchen table, she wryly observes, "Maybe of all the words there are, 'nigga' is not the best one to describe Bambi."