Brand Nubian-Brand Nubian

[00:21.72]Brand Nubian function [00:23.37]A junction of three, collaboration in a style that's like funk [00:26.57]To slap palms, swing arms, tap a soul [00:29.27]Cause no rock rolls down our hill [00:31.56]Yo black it's kinda ill, we don't roll no rocks we just fill [00:34.99]Heads with knowledge, pure foundation [00:37.16]Showing and proving through the manifestation [00:39.41]Of our name which is "Brand Nu" [00:41.35]Brand Nubian and we've come to [00:43.43]Make the people aware that black means first [00:45.61]Four hundreed years and we're made to feel cursed [00:47.87]But now it's our time to rule [00:49.95]Student of the old, teacher of the new school [00:52.29]My inspiration is the Five Percent Nation [00:54.47]As I cram, education was born [00:57.41]Like a thorn in your side I have sworn [00:59.65]Never to divide with Brand Nubian [01:11.77]You have to stand as a black man, Brand Nubian [01:14.40]From the Sudan plus I never ran [01:16.28]I'm from Africa, the central region [01:18.82]There I grew and formed a legion of my force [01:21.46]See me riding on a jet black horse at any cost [01:24.91]Brand Nubians will rise up and be the boss and show it [01:27.71]All fairness if you're black and show awareness [01:29.95]You can rally 'round the flag [01:31.81]Stand tall, or don't stand at all [01:33.79]You're with the three and the three won't sag to the floor [01:36.90]Besides the picture that I'm painting I can draw [01:39.95]See me work nine to five on my easel [01:41.88]My physical is strong and my mind is cock diesel [01:44.47]Brand Nubian function in conjunction with the three [01:57.51]Brand Nubian, not on a bandwagon following a fad [02:00.41]Making use of the knowledge that we already had [02:02.57]Grand Pu, here to send the mind into a frenzy [02:04.96]I bet I'll swing something this summer for the Benzi [02:07.15]Seep into the mind the brain and activate the pelvis [02:09.34]Keeping the blind, deaf, dumb, and blind is Elvis [02:11.53]Meaning old, so behold (The black, the beautiful, the bold) [02:15.20]Now if this falls short, I'll try harder [02:17.17]A wisdom to me is someone like Assata [02:19.61]I'd like to say peace to Bambaata [02:21.55]Tasa Kuma?, Achmed, and Kenyatta [02:23.99]Brothers that'll fight for the cause [02:25.82]And they live in the boundaries of the righteous laws [02:28.16]To put it exact, dominant means black [02:30.31]But some have a hard time trying to swallow that [02:32.49]Now we have some that are fake [02:34.62]Wearing blue eyes and green eyes, come on, gimme a break [02:37.36]Brand Nubian here to wake up [02:38.99]Take off the makeup, 'cause all it'll do is cake up [02:41.44]Just be real that's how I feel [02:43.33]Brand Nubian [03:09.77]Nubian, a native or inhabitant of Nubia [03:14.10]Nubian, A member of one of a group of African tribes [03:17.31]That formed a powerful empire between Egypt and Ethiopia [03:20.32]From the 6th to 14th century [03:22.97]Nubian, any of several languages [03:24.95]spoken in the central and northern Sudan [03:27.45]And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian [03:30.67]As the midnight oil burns, our minds turn [03:33.83]Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn [03:35.93]We're here to teach so you'd might as well learn [03:38.06]That the tree has the knowledge for what you yearn [03:40.09]Brand Nubian