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Shinin' Star - Brand Nubian |
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Yeah yeah uhh uh huh |
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Brand Nubian yeah yeah check it |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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Uhh now it started it off for me in apartment 6C |
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Project style ate government cheese for a while |
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Pop Duke wasn't there cos he had to do a bid |
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So momma love stuck with these bad a** kids |
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She used to say keep your head up always think positive |
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And never be ashamed of who you are or where you live |
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Teenage years I had to struggle doing that |
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Shorty say Don't talk to him girlfriend look where he live at |
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Crib probably crawlin with roaches and rats |
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Plus cats be in his hallways with the *** and the gats |
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I used to try and honeys used to walk on by |
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Now I'm damn near 20 and still ain't got no ride |
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Caught a record deal now them same old chicks that used to walk on by |
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Go out their way to say hi |
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But they gets none |
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That's why I'm with the same girl from the same projects that I come from |
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Because |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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Well this is that time that you've waited for |
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Three linked from what was said to be extinct |
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You say take my w**d-smellin a** home I'm grown |
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More thirst than if I swallowed sand bags |
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Not fiending enough to go out and grab bags from women |
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I swear if we don't hear this on the air |
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I'll be down at the station |
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Your broadcast from Monday has now been switched to no day |
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With the class team that I'm with we stay fit |
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Just like the calm before the twister hit |
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Brand Nubian name is gonna blister sh*t |
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We raise the flags in three places |
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Employ black faces from midnight blacks to light tan |
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Brand Nubian straight rate policy for the world |
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For your little man for your little girl from Cheryl to Earl |
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Watch how it all go down and unfurl |
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Mark this print I feel like we've all been sent |
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It's more than gettin money and gettin bent |
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(Word life cos you're a shinin' star) |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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Brand Nubian cats spread |
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A four letter word seldom heard amongst my nation |
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Understandings highest elevation the foundation |
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Of creation of motivation in my family there's no relation |
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They got us willing to be killing off our population full time occupation |
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We need to turn it around like oscillation |
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Or watch it all burn to the ground from frustration |
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Lord Jamar I'ma show love to all my people who show |
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To me that's how it's gotta be |
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Peace to Prodigy and Mobb Deep |
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God's working hard on the streets for the love of the peeps |
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Niggas bring their a** in the clubs every week |
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Walk right past the brothers and they can't speak |
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All hands meet to shake for Pete's sake |
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Let's break the ice life livin love love livin life (Yeah) |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
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You don't have to drive a fancy car |
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Just for you to be a shinin' star |
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No matter who you are no matter who you are |
