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Verse one: Lord Jamar
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Brand Nubian function
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A junction of three
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Collaboration in a style that's like funk
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To slap palms, swing arms
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Tap a soul
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Cause no rock rolls down our hill
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Yo black it's kinda ill
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We don't roll no rocks we just fill
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Heads with knowledge, pure foundation
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Showing and proving through the manifestation
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Of our name which is "Brand Nu"
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Brand Nubian and we've come to
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Make the people aware that black means first
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4000 years and we're made to feel cursed
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But now it's our time to rule
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Student of the old, teacher of the new school
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My inspiration is the five percent nation
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As I cram, education was born
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Like a thorn in your side I have sworn
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Never to divide with Brand Nubian
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Verse Two: Derrick X (Sadat X)
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You have to stand as a black man
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Brand Nubian
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From the Sudan plus I never ran
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I'm from Africa, the central region
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There I grew and formed a legion of my force
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See me riding on a jet black horse at any cost
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Brand Nubians will rise up and be the boss and show it
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All fairness if you're black and show awareness
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You can rally 'round the flag
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Stand tall, or don't stand at all
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You're with the three and the three won't sag to the floor
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Besides picture that I'm painting I can draw
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See me work nine to five on my easel
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My physical is strong and my mind is cock diesel
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Brand Nubian function in conjunction with the three
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Verse 3: Grand Puba
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Brand Nubian
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Not on a bandwagon following a fad
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Making use of the knowledge that we already had
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Grand Pu, here to send the mind into a frenzy
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I bet I'll swing something this summer for the benzi
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Seep into the mind the brain and activate the pelvis
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Keeping the blind deaf dumb and blind is Elvis
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Meaning old, so behold
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(The black, the beautiful, the bold)
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Now if this falls short I'll try harder
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A wisdom to me is someone like Assata
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I'd like to say peace to Bambaata
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Tasa Kuma(?), Achmed, and Kenyatta
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Brothers that'll fight for the cause
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And they live in the boundaries of the righteous laws
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To put it exact dominant means black
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But some have a hard time trying to swallow that
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Now we have some that are fake
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Wearing blue eyes and green eyes, come on gimme a break
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Brand Nubian here to wake up
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Take off the makeup cause all it'll do is cake up
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Just be real that's how I feel
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Brand Nubian
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Verse four
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Nubian
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(DX) A native or inhabitant of Nubia
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Nubian
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(LJ) A member of one of a group of African tribes that formed a poweful
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Empire between Egypt and Ethiopia
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from the 6th to 14th century Nubian
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(GP) Any of several languages spoken in the central and northern Sudan
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And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian
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(DX) As the midnight oil burns, our minds turn
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Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn
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We're here to teach so you'd might as well learn
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That the tree has the knowledge for what you yearn
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Brand Nubian
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