[00:00.00]Shinin' Star - Brand Nubian
[00:03.62]Yeah yeah uhh uh huh
[00:07.05]Brand Nubian yeah yeah check it
[00:12.54]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[00:14.66]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[00:19.21]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[00:21.89]Uhh now it started it off for me in apartment 6C
[00:24.57]Project style ate government cheese for a while
[00:26.96]Pop Duke wasn't there cos he had to do a bid
[00:29.52]So momma love stuck with these bad a** kids
[00:31.82]She used to say keep your head up always think positive
[00:34.38]And never be ashamed of who you are or where you live
[00:37.13]Teenage years I had to struggle doing that
[00:39.12]Shorty say Don't talk to him girlfriend look where he live at
[00:42.06]Crib probably crawlin with roaches and rats
[00:43.93]Plus cats be in his hallways with the *** and the gats
[00:46.67]I used to try and honeys used to walk on by
[00:49.48]Now I'm damn near 20 and still ain't got no ride
[00:51.85]Caught a record deal now them same old chicks that used to walk on by
[00:55.66]Go out their way to say hi
[00:57.41]But they gets none
[00:58.53]That's why I'm with the same girl from the same projects that I come from
[01:01.34]Because
[01:02.09]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[01:03.90]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[01:08.07]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[01:11.19]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[01:13.56]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[01:17.62]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[01:20.93]Well this is that time that you've waited for
[01:23.36]Three linked from what was said to be extinct
[01:25.73]You say take my w**d-smellin a** home I'm grown
[01:28.29]More thirst than if I swallowed sand bags
[01:30.48]Not fiending enough to go out and grab bags from women
[01:33.72]I swear if we don't hear this on the air
[01:35.84]I'll be down at the station
[01:37.90]Your broadcast from Monday has now been switched to no day
[01:40.87]With the class team that I'm with we stay fit
[01:43.18]Just like the calm before the twister hit
[01:45.11]Brand Nubian name is gonna blister sh*t
[01:47.79]We raise the flags in three places
[01:50.10]Employ black faces from midnight blacks to light tan
[01:52.35]Brand Nubian straight rate policy for the world
[01:55.09]For your little man for your little girl from Cheryl to Earl
[01:57.90]Watch how it all go down and unfurl
[02:00.02]Mark this print I feel like we've all been sent
[02:02.58]It's more than gettin money and gettin bent
[02:04.70](Word life cos you're a shinin' star)
[02:06.70]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[02:10.00]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[02:12.44]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[02:16.62]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[02:19.80]Brand Nubian cats spread
[02:22.11]A four letter word seldom heard amongst my nation
[02:24.93]Understandings highest elevation the foundation
[02:27.12]Of creation of motivation in my family there's no relation
[02:29.80]They got us willing to be killing off our population full time occupation
[02:34.98]We need to turn it around like oscillation
[02:37.23]Or watch it all burn to the ground from frustration
[02:39.92]Lord Jamar I'ma show love to all my people who show
[02:42.60]To me that's how it's gotta be
[02:43.91]Peace to Prodigy and Mobb Deep
[02:45.53]God's working hard on the streets for the love of the peeps
[02:48.64]Niggas bring their a** in the clubs every week
[02:51.70]Walk right past the brothers and they can't speak
[02:54.32]All hands meet to shake for Pete's sake
[02:57.25]Let's break the ice life livin love love livin life (Yeah)
[02:59.50]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[03:01.56]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[03:05.80]No matter who you are no matter who you are
[03:08.86]You don't have to drive a fancy car
[03:11.36]Just for you to be a shinin' star
[03:15.56]No matter who you are no matter who you are