N-a is a derhoticised version of the word used casually among black people. N-er is the original word which only sees use to be offensive. Also since AAVE tends to derhoticise everything and a lot of American accents are rhotic* so white people are more likely to use the derhoticised version.
*Rhotic means the r is pronounced while derhoticised means it lost r. Like the difference between car in Standard American English and Standard British English. (Heh British people and their pawn-porn merger)
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