[ti:All For One (Explicit) (2006 Remastered LP Version) (explicit Explicit 2006 Remastered LP Version)] [ar:Brand Nubian] [al:The Very Best Of Brand Nubian (Explicit) (Digital Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All for One (Explicit LP Version) - Brand Nubian [00:09.95]I hit a beat and swing a note [00:11.24]As if my name was david ruffin [00:12.47]Quick to toast an mc just like an english muffin [00:14.71]Dont worry about a thing [00:15.86]Cause the pubas never bluffin [00:17.17]I gets headaches from the wack [00:18.40]So then I take a bufferin and I max [00:20.16]I wait until the opportune time and then I tax [00:22.91]But should I max [00:24.07]Now they say sinning is for sinners [00:25.35]So I guess I'm not a sinner [00:26.68]Beginnings is for beginners [00:27.69]So I guess I'm no beginner [00:29.13]This is how I spark it [00:30.25]With money in my pocket [00:31.43]When it comes to having pressure [00:32.64]I gets hard as a rocket [00:33.92]Mc grand pu coming through all the residue [00:35.69]The songs remain classics [00:37.04]Dating back to the babalu [00:38.43]My boys I call em hot [00:39.67]The phones all of them jock [00:40.80]And I can think of many episodes [00:41.99]I swung in lincoln park [00:43.28]No I'm not a phony and I got a tenderoni [00:45.48]Love the way she is not too fat [00:47.12]Not too bony [00:48.06]Don't drink sanka [00:48.94]Won't sink like a tanker [00:50.10]Knock the boots of a skirt in casablanca and [00:52.06]I thank her [00:52.79]Some rappers stink [00:53.65]Like englebert humperdink [00:55.01]Better yet dick caveat [00:56.14]I got a bad habit [00:57.19]Similar to the girl on she's gotta have it [00:59.80]I think with the brain and [01:01.00]I whip behind the zipper [01:02.25]I'm living kinda good similar to jack tripper [01:04.38]A landlord named roper did a show at the copa [01:06.64]When I finish with this [01:07.73]I'll be paid like oprah [01:09.57]So if honey wants to act fly [01:11.19]Just get life fly [01:15.31]Stick out your thumb and hitch [01:16.78]Cause you've been cut off like a lightswitch [01:18.43]See I'm programmed to slam with the summer [01:20.55]Spring and fall [01:21.44]Before I do a show [01:22.42]I get some kicks out the mall [01:23.61]Then I get my gear and I give trev a call [01:25.86]Cause he works in the barbershop [01:27.12]Right behind the mall [01:27.97]Other rappers tried to rob me [01:29.30]But you know they got did [01:30.44]To put it blunt [01:31.71]Honey I smoked the kids [01:32.87]So hookers back off break north here [01:34.42]Comes the regulator [01:35.29]Cause you doesn't find none greater [01:47.01]On file is a style that's why you caught a clip [01:49.47]My suitcases is packed and [01:50.58]I'm going on a trip to mic-a-delphia [01:52.37]I go for self and still be slamming [01:54.11]The school bell is ringing and [01:55.40]I caught somebody cramming [01:56.28]For the test oh yes [01:57.63]My study guide was thick [01:58.79]I cut you with my verbal didn't hurt you just a nick [02:00.99]Off your face don't play possum [02:02.37]Watch me and I'll blossom like a rose [02:05.04]And get some new clothes [02:06.08]And a fresh fade from rob [02:08.58]Jump on the phone and dial the now rule mob [02:11.02]Now come one come all [02:12.01]We about to get hectic [02:12.93]If my crew don't get in [02:14.05]Then the x makes an exit [02:15.20]To the rear I'm outta here [02:16.58]Don't front on my brothers [02:17.77]I take care of them before [02:18.94]I take care of others [02:19.95]Now wood bats is doomed [02:21.11]In the ninties it's aluminum [02:22.62]Step to the stage with a mic [02:24.04]And I'm doing him something awful [02:25.91]I'm a citizen and I'm lawful [02:29.32]I go to hunt another fall [02:30.70]Rip the policemens ball [02:32.29]I got the power to make a car stall [02:34.05]I guess I'm great from blackness [02:35.62]And when the crowd slackens [02:36.71]I stop drinking and then I start thinking [02:38.96]About days in the past when derek x was last [02:41.33]But now I'm on the top damn news travels fast [02:43.64]Cuz I'm like that they can't see this [02:46.27]Read my book it contains many pieces of verses [02:49.37]I took the time to delete all the curses [02:51.98]So moms reach deep in your purses [02:53.95]And buy me take me home [02:55.18]And try me and do me well [03:07.43]Well while I reign rhymes pour [03:09.52]You suck it up like a straw [03:11.02]And jump on the dancefloor [03:12.41]Cause every time I step in a jam [03:14.52]I make like a door and slam [03:16.63]But then girls try to turn my knob [03:18.57]Cause I'm a hearthrob [03:19.52]I guess its just a hazard that comes with the job [03:21.44]Cause everytime I rock a rhyme [03:22.83]That shows jamar is intellectual [03:24.40]Girls want to get sexual [03:26.14]Well I guess I have to cope with being so d**e [03:28.49]You want to be me but can't see me with a telescope [03:31.06]You seek and search but still you cant find [03:33.12]You're weak and it hurts to be deaf dumb and blind [03:35.74]A supreme mind will take you out of your paralysis [03:38.36]I grip the mic so tight I get callouses [03:40.84]And your analysis is that the lord [03:43.09]Rips rhymes into shape with a mic cord [03:45.49]I do it good cause I'm a postive black man [03:47.72]Eating up suckers as if I was pac man [03:50.36]Not a dapper dan fan I stay casual [03:52.66]To rock like the it comes gradual [03:54.99]You got to know the ledge of wise and dumb [03:57.49]And understand your culture of freedom [03:59.72]Power equally with the gods [04:01.55]So you can build and form your cipher [04:04.45]All your life you must teach true [04:06.35]Of the true and living god not a mystery spook [04:08.68]And when you do that pursue that goal [04:10.36]Which made the student enroll and only then youll prosper