The Experience

[Intro: Cee-Lo]

Yeah, better believe that slick

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha yeah

I Thought you said you was the G-O-D

Sound like another nigga to me, ha ha, yeah

I thought you said you was the G-O-D

Sound like another nigga to me, shit

[Verse: Cee-Lo]

What a nigga do, what a nigga does

And a nigga is what a nigga was

And a nigga done read history but yet his eyes didn't see

The only reason you a nigga is because somebody else wants you to be

Well a nigga uneducated, intergrated, singin' "We shall overcome"

A nigga trying to be white is what a nigga seem like have become

And when they call me a nigga to my face'

Can't do nothin' but walk away

But here it is niggers call other niggers niggers each and every day

Dividing and conquering

When they say the lighter shade of black is okay

After the middle class and they passin' by

The project laughing at where we stay

Since a nigga had got grown, had a little bitty of nigga of my own

Should've known I couldn't show 'em no better what I was showin'

Shit, I could've hit the club as fresh as I could be

Really, all for another nigga to see

You know how a nigga get when he see another nigga outfit

Don't want nobody to have what he ain't got

Somebody get drunk, get mad, and get shot

That why the property value ain't no good in a nigga neighborhood

A nigga could overstand if he only understood

I'm sick of lyin' I'm sick of glorifyin' dyin'

I'm sick of not trying, shit I'm sick of being a nigga

Destiny sent me to this dread and she said she felt led

To offer me some wisdom from this notebook she read

And it said that right then the black man's downfall

Was not know that we were not ever niggers at all, hmm

And she looked deeply into my eyes and said brother don't you know

You complain about being black

When they mad coz they can't be black no mo'

So many black men out here trying to be niggers

Keeping it real to the point that they dying to be niggers

When in actuality the fact is you ain't a nigga because you black

You a nigga cause of how you act

But, you don't want me to tell you the truth, so I'mma lie to you

Make it sound fly to you huh, huh

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'mma lie to you

Make it sound fly to you, shit

The nigga experience

The nigga experience

Has been stated, it was created

The nigga experience