Noun
(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, dated) Pronunciation spelling of nigger.
(vulgar, slang, often offensive, but also often used affectionately in African-American Vernacular) A close and loyal friend.
I'd never betray you, cuz you my nigga, man.
(vulgar, slang, often offensive, but tolerated in African-American Vernacular) A black person (usually male), especially an African American.
As soon as I walked into the class and saw that sea of white faces, I felt alone, so I sat next to the only other nigga there.
(vulgar, slang, often offensive, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Any person, though chiefly male.
White niggas be like, this is too spicy.
All these freshman niggas are so annoying.
These niggas out here bein' fake.
(vulgar, slang, often offensive, but tolerated in African-American Vernacular) A male as opposed to a female.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAccording to Arthur K. Spears in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2006: In many African-American neighborhoods, nigga is simply the most common term used to refer to any male, of any race or ethnicity. Source: Internet
Acceptance of intra-group usage of the word nigga is still debated, although it has established a foothold among younger generations. Source: Internet
Ibid., 227. In other words, gangsta rap defines the experience of blackness, in which he locates in gangsta rap's deployment of the word "nigga," in this new global economic system as "adaptation to the force of commodification." Source: Internet
Ibid., 229. For Judy, nigga (and gangsta rap) becomes an ontologically authentic category for describing the condition of being black in the modern "realm of things." Source: Internet
In this economy, gangsta rap traffics blackness as a commodifiable affect of "being a nigga." Source: Internet
But then immediately after he said all that, he launched into a tirade about black women and c sections and placenta and Shea butter and my "this nigga here" face came back swiftly and with a vengeance. Source: Internet