Nigga

Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/) is a colloquial and vulgar term used in African-American Vernacular English that began as a dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic slur against black people. As a result of reappropriation, today the word is used mostly by African-Americans in a largely non-pejorative sense as a slang term referring to another black person or to themselves, often in a neutral or friendly way. The word is commonly associated with hip hop music and culture, especially that of gangsta rap and G-funk subgenres.

In dialects of English (including standard British English) that have non-rhotic speech, nigger and nigga are often pronounced the same.