All for One-Brand Nubian

[00:01.848]Yeah [00:04.530](One for all, is all for one) [00:08.807]I hit a beat and swing a note as if my name was David Ruffin [00:11.646]Quick to toast an MC just like an English muffin [00:14.038]Don't worry about a thing because the Puba's never bluffing [00:16.303]I gets headaches from the wack, so then I take a Bufferin and I max [00:19.398]I wait until the opportune time and then I tax but should I max? [00:23.168]Now they say sinning is for sinners so I guess I'm not a sinner [00:25.864]Beginning's for beginners so I guess I'm no beginner [00:28.167]This is how I spark it, puts money in my pocket [00:30.579]When it comes to having pleasure I gets hard as a rocket [00:32.873]MC Grand Pu coming through all the residue [00:35.098]The songs remain classics dating back to the Babalu [00:37.603]My boys I call 'em Akh, the foes I let 'em jock [00:39.899]And I can think of many episodes I swung in Lincoln Park [00:42.259]No I'm not a phony and I got a tenderoni [00:44.842]Love the way she is - not too fat, not too bony [00:47.159]Don't drink Sanka, won't sink like a tanker [00:49.466]Knock the boots off a skirt in Casablanca and I thank her [00:51.851]Some rappers stink like Englebert Humperdinck [00:54.262]Better yet **** Cavett, I got a bad habit [00:56.707]Similar to the girl on She's Gotta Have It [00:59.037]I think with the brain and I whip behind the zipper [01:01.285]I'm living kinda good similar to Jack Tripper [01:03.673]A landlord named Roper did a show at the Copa [01:06.074]When I'm finished with this I'll be paid like Oprah [01:08.468]So if honey wants to act fly [01:10.451]I'll just play like Guy and I'm (saying, "bye, bye, dumb *****!") [01:14.381]Stick out your thumb and hitch [01:15.976]Cause you've been cut off like a light switch [01:17.730]See I'm programmed to slam, winter, summer, spring or fall [01:20.064]Before I do a show I get some kicks out the mall [01:22.556]Then I get my gear and I give Trev a call [01:24.886]Cause he works in the barbershop, right behind the mall [01:27.325]Other rappers tried to rob me but you know they got did [01:29.576]To put it blunt, honey I shrunk the kids [01:32.030]So bookers back off break North here comes the regulator [01:34.504]Betcha that you find none greater [01:36.635](One for all) Brand Nubian! [01:39.103](Is all for one) Brand Nubian! [01:41.252](One for all) Brand Nubian! [01:43.713](Is all for one) Brand Nubian! [01:46.007]On file is a style, that's why you caught a clip [01:48.542]My suitcases is packed and I'm going on a trip [01:50.990]To Mic-a-delphia I go for self and still be slamming [01:53.519]The school bell is ringing and I caught somebody cramming [01:55.760]For the test, oh yes, my study guide was thick [01:58.137]I cut you with my verbal, didn't hurt you just a nick [02:00.401]Off your face, don't play possum watch me and I'll blossom [02:02.788]Like a rose and get some new clothes [02:05.163]And a fresh fade from Rob [02:07.413]Jamar on the phone and now the Now Rule Mob [02:10.254]The come one, come all, we about to get hectic [02:12.226]If my crew don't get in, then the X makes a exit [02:14.643]To the rear, I'm outta here, don't front on my brothers [02:17.073]I take care of them before I take care of others [02:19.387]The wood bats is doomed, in the 90's it's aluminum [02:21.809]Step to the stage with a mic and I'm doing 'em something awful [02:25.010]I'm a citizen and I'm lawful [02:28.577]I go to Hunter in the fall, rip the policemen's ball [02:31.419]I got the power to make a car stall [02:33.463]I get some drinks from Glackens, and when the crowd slackens [02:36.014]I stop drinking and then I start thinking about [02:38.322]Days in the past when Derek X was last [02:40.769]But now I'm on the top, damn, news travels fast [02:43.077]Cause I'm like that, they can't see this [02:45.790]Read my book, it contains many pieces of verses [02:48.577]I took the time to delete all the curses [02:51.035]So moms reach deep in your purses [02:53.170]And buy me, take me home and try me and do me well [02:57.101](One for all) Brand Nubian! [02:59.360](Is all for one) Brand Nubian! [03:01.727](One for all) Brand Nubian! [03:04.054](Is all for one) Brand Nubian! [03:06.454]Well, while I reign rhymes pour [03:08.519]You suck it up like a straw and jump on the dance floor [03:11.602]Cause every time I step in a jam [03:13.608]I make like a door and slam [03:15.952]But then girls try to turn my knob cause I'm a heart throb [03:18.703]I guess it's just a hazard that comes with the job [03:20.703]Cause every time I rock a rhyme that shows Jamar is intellectual [03:23.480]Girls want to get ***ual [03:25.245]Well I guess I have to cope with being so **** [03:27.765]You want to be me, but can't see me with a telescope [03:30.257]You seek and search but still you can't find [03:32.670]You're weak and it hurts to be deaf, dumb and blind [03:35.114]A supreme mind will take you out of your paralysis [03:37.413]I grip the mic so tight I get callouses [03:39.938]And your a**lysis is that the Lord [03:42.344]Whips rhymes into shape with a mic cord [03:44.728]I do it good cause I'm a positive black man [03:46.885]Eating up suckers as if I was PacMan [03:49.296]Not a Dapper Dan fan, I stay casual [03:51.786]To rock like the J it comes gradual [03:54.361]You got to know the ledge to wise the dumb [03:56.579]And understand your culture of freedom [03:58.879]Power equally with the Gods [04:01.033]So you can build and born your cipher [04:03.389]All your life you must teach truth [04:05.612]Of the true and living God, not a mystery spook [04:07.972]And when you do that, pursue that goal [04:09.821]Which made the student enroll and only then you'll prosper [04:13.012](One for all, is..is all for one) [04:31.924](One for all..)