Young Niggas – English Lyrics

• By: Nipsey Hussle, Puff Daddy
• Album: Victory Lap

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Yeah, what can make a nigga wanna go and get it?

Said he want a Beamer with the subs in it.

Said he grew up in a house and it was love missin'.

Said he grew up in the set, he keep his guns with him.

Young niggas

Young niggas

Let's go

Young niggas

Young niggas

Let's go

Young niggas

And he don't need a reason, he a young nigga.

And you don't want your daughter and your sons with him.

Young niggas

Young niggas

Let's go

Young niggas

Young niggas

Probably never understand us.

Till he pull up in a Phantom.

When he pull up in a Phantom.

He gon' have that shit blastin'.

Like young niggas, just a young nigga.

Young niggas, just a young nigga.

What they call you where you from, nigga?

My city that was question number one, nigga.

Lookin' at the legend I become, nigga.

I can't help but feeling like I am the one, nigga.

Remember I was on the run, nigga.

Couple years before you had a son, nigga.

Open up your doors and kept it one with me.

Held a nigga down and that was love, nigga.

Nobody wanna stand in front of judge, nigga.

Make you think of better days like when you was winnin'.

Standin' on the couches in the club with us.

We all in here, we all in here.

Then I got my shot, I had to run with it.

Out the gate.

Lost count many days in the studio we slaved.

But this shit we gotta say.

Staring in the space that you fishing for a phrase, uninspired and your mind still a cellophane.

First you over dedicate.

Then you noticed that you're great.

You been a whole time, and it slap you in your face.

Then you stackin' in your safe, got it crack and it was fake.

Now you the definition, nigga laughin' to the bank.

I'm a master of my fate, I'm the type of nigga on the masters of my tape.

Yeah.

In Nevada for the day.

I caught a flight from Philly, we just sold out to L.A.

Fresh up off a stage, on my way to B. Of A.

AMB, we L.A. tryin' to eat, we the way.

Look.

Young Nipsey the Great never taught, I had a drink I just lead to the lake.

Say he self degrees in L.A., fuck it, time to put some jet skis on the lake.

Look.

I got a team in my bank.

I don't even need an ID at my bank.

It used to be a dream we would chase.

I know Jay Stone and Cobby Supreme could relate.

I know the whole team could relate.

I know Adam McKenzie and Ron C. could relate.

Cornell Saddam, Adam and Bron, Stephen Donelson and Black Sam, the honest marathon.

Ballast is my brother, used to hustle out the vines, couple hundred thousand up, he took a shovel to the line.

No exaggeration for the continent of my songs, when he went to dig it up, shit the hundred some gone.

Molden.

You can ask Moms at the plug and blow dry for the ones that we could wash.

South East a little bit, young rich nigga shit.

Pressure on your shoulder, how you gonna deal with it?

Say yourself, nigga.

When you transition, but it's so beautiful.

When you get rich in it, when you start killin' shit.

And they all witness it, when you roll faster than niggas can't finish it.

Open more businesses with your enrolled niggas.

You and your niggas, you are the vision, let's go.

Get your money, young nigga.

Before all this shit we up in the Porsche, watchin' a new Rolls that wasn't joined us.

I forgive you, I remember I was poor, I'm molded.

Got my sign in the way of what you're reaching for.

Gotta play the game, you gotta read the score.

See, I'ma do the same and pop the clutch you for.

Tell me if I want it, got to hustle for it.

Only thing is now that money more mature.

Young nigga

Young nigga

Young nigga

Young nigga

Young nigga

Young nigga

Get your money

Young nigga

Get your money

Young nigga

Get your money

Young nigga

Young nigga

Young nigga

Get your money

Young nigga

Get your money

Young nigga

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot verb - to manage or operate
grow /ɡroʊ/ A2	verb - to develop or increase in size
pull /pʊl/ A1	verb - to move something toward oneself
blast /blæst/ B1	verb - to explode or destroy with force noun - a loud, explosive sound
stack /stæk/ B1	verb - to arrange in a pile noun - a pile of objects
hustle /hʌsəl/ B2	verb - to work hard or move quickly noun - a busy or hectic activity
transition /trænˈzɪʃən/ C1	noun - a change from one state to another
witness /ˈwɪtnəs/ B2	verb - to see or know something happen noun - a person who sees an event happen
enroll /ɛnˈroʊl/ B2	verb - to sign up or register for something
forgive /fərˈɡɪv/ A2	verb - to stop feeling angry or resentful toward someone
mold /moʊld/ B1	verb - to shape or form something noun - a hollow container used to shape something
pressure /ˈprɛʃər/ B1	noun - the force applied per unit area
slave /sleɪv/ B2	noun - a person who is owned by another verb - to work extremely hard
inspire /ɪnˈspaɪr/ B2	verb - to fill someone with the urge to do something
dedicate /ˈdɛdɪkeɪt/ B2	verb - to commit oneself to a task or purpose
exaggeration /ɪɡˌzædʒəˈreɪʃən/ C1	noun - the act of making something more significant than it is
marathon /ˈmærəθɒn/ B1	noun - a long-distance running race
business /ˈbɪznəs/ A2	noun - a commercial activity or company
vision /ˈvɪʒən/ B2	noun - the ability to think about the future with imagination
mature /məˈtʊr/ B2	adjective - fully developed

Key Grammar Structures

• He don't need a reason, he a young nigga.

  ➔ Subject‑verb agreement (third‑person singular) and zero copula

  ➔ The verb "don't" should be "doesn't" for a third‑person singular subject, and "he" needs the copula "is" ("he is a young nigga").

• I can't help but feeling like I am the one.

  ➔ "Can't help but + gerund" construction

  ➔ After "can't help but" the verb must be in the gerund form: "feeling" not "feel".

• I know Jay Stone and Cobby Supreme could relate.

  ➔ Modal verb "could" for possibility

  ➔ "Could" here means "would be able to" or "might" – it shows a possible ability to relate.

• When he pull up in a Phantom.

  ➔ Simple present used for future/habitual actions

  ➔ In informal speech the present tense "pull" can refer to a future event: "When he pull up…" = "When he pulls up…".

• I got a team in my bank.

  ➔ "Have got" for possession

  ➔ "Got" here is not the past of "get" but part of the idiom "have got" meaning "own".

• We all in here, we all in here.

  ➔ Ellipsis of the verb "to be" (zero copula)

  ➔ The sentence omits "are": "We all **are** in here". In informal speech the copula is often dropped.

• He gon' have that shit blastin'.

  ➔ "Going to" future (colloquial contraction "gon'")

  ➔ "Gon'" is a spoken reduction of "going to". The sentence means "He is going to have that shit blastin'."

• I'm a master of my fate, I'm the type of nigga on the masters of my tape.

  ➔ Copular "be" + noun phrase (identity)

  ➔ The structure "I'm a master" uses the copular verb "be" to equate the subject with a noun phrase, expressing identity.