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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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400 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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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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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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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 |