Brand Nubian (Explicit LP Version)-Brand Nubian

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[00:22.27]Brand nubian function
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[00:24.01]A junction of three
[00:24.84]Collaboration in a style that's like funk
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[00:27.22]To slap palms swing arms
[00:28.91]Tap a soul
[00:29.92]Cause no rock rolls down our hill
[00:31.85]Yo black it's kinda ill
[00:33.40]We don't roll no rocks we just fill
[00:35.37]Heads with knowledge pure foundation
[00:37.60]Showing and proving through the manifestation
[00:39.89]Of our name which is"Brand Nu"
[00:41.83]Brand Nubian and we've come to
[00:43.74]Make the people aware that black means first
[00:46.15]4000 years and we're made to feel cursed
[00:48.17]But now it's our time to rule
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[00:50.64]Student of the old teacher of the new school
[00:53.16]My inspiration is the five percent nation
[00:55.09]As I cram education was born
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[00:58.02]Like a thorn in your side I have sworn
[01:00.17]Never to divide with Brand Nubian
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[01:12.37]You have to stand as a black man
[01:14.05]Brand Nubian
[01:15.02]From the Sudan plus I never ran
[01:16.90]I'm from Africa the central region
[01:19.43]There I grew and formed a legion of my force
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[01:22.08]See me riding on a jet black horse at any cost
[01:25.43]Brand Nubians will rise up
[01:26.78]And be the boss and show it
[01:28.14]All fairness if you're black and show awareness
[01:30.24]You can rally 'round the flag
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[01:32.11]Stand tall or don't stand at all
[01:34.28]You're with the three and
[01:35.36]The three won't sag to the floor
[01:37.28]Besides picture that I'm painting I can draw
[01:40.51]See me work nine to five on my easel
[01:42.53]My physical is strong
[01:43.34]And my mind is cock diesel
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[01:45.01]Brand Nubian function in conjunction
[01:46.99]With the three
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[01:58.18]Brand Nubian
[01:59.14]Not on a bandwagon following a fad
[02:00.96]Making use of the knowledge
[02:02.03]That we already had
[02:02.80]Grand Pu here to send the mind into a frenzy
[02:05.52]I bet I'll swing something
[02:06.32]This summer for the benzi
[02:07.48]Seep into the mind the brain
[02:08.55]And activate the pelvis
[02:09.73]Keeping the blind deaf dumb and blind is Elvis
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[02:12.29]Meaning old so behold
[02:13.89]The black the beautiful the bold
[02:15.66]Now if this falls short I'll try harder
[02:17.67]A wisdom to me is someone like Assata
[02:20.10]I'd like to say peace to Bambaata
[02:22.17]Tasa Kuma Achmed and Kenyatta
[02:24.50]Brothers that'll fight for the cause
[02:26.42]And they live in the boundaries
[02:27.71]Of the righteous laws
[02:28.82]To put it exact dominant means black
[02:30.79]But some have a hard time
[02:32.12]Trying to swallow that
[02:33.27]Now we have some that are fake
[02:35.16]Wearing blue eyes and green eyes
[02:36.76]Come on gimme a break
[02:37.77]Brand Nubian here to wake up
[02:39.38]Take off the makeup
[02:40.06]Cause all it'll do is cake up
[02:41.89]Just be real that's how I feel
[02:43.68]Brand Nubian
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[03:10.27]Nubian
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[03:11.26]A native or inhabitant of Nubia
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[03:14.87]Nubian
[03:15.60]A member of one of a group of
[03:16.85]African tribes that formed a poweful
[03:18.37]Empire between Egypt and Ethiopia
[03:20.89]From the 6th to 14th century Nubian
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[03:24.28]Any of several languages spoken
[03:25.79]In the central and northern Sudan
[03:27.96]And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian
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[03:31.17]As the midnight oil burns our minds turn
[03:34.36]Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn
[03:36.41]We're here to teach
[03:37.43]So you'd might as well learn
[03:38.49]That the tree has the knowledge
[03:39.66]For what you yearn
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