Brand Nubian - Brand Nubian lyrics

Brand Nubian function a junction of three
Collaborating in a style that's like funk
To slap palms, swing arms, tap a soul
Cause no rock rolls down our hill
Yo black it's kinda ill
We don't roll no rocks we just fill
Heads with knowledge, pure foundation
Showing and proving through the manifestation
Of our name which is "Brand Nu"
Brand Nubian and we've come to
Make the people aware that black means first
Four hundred years we've been
Made to feel cursed
But now, it's our time to rule
Student of the old, teacher of the new school
My inspiration is the Five Percent Nation
As I cram, education was born
Like a thorn in your side I have sworn
Never to divide with Brand Nubian

You have to stand as a black man
Brand Nubian from the Sudan plus I never ran
I'm from Africa, the central region
There I grew and formed a legion of a force
See me riding on a jet black horse
At any cost
Brand Nubians will rise up and be
The boss and show it
All fairness if you're black
And show awareness
You can rally 'round the flag
Stand tall, or don't stand at all
You're with the three and the three
Won't sag to the floor
Besides the picture that I'm
Painting I can draw
See me work nine to five on my easel
My physical is strong and my
Mind is cock diesel
Brand Nubian function in conjunction
With the three

Brand Nubian
Not on a bandwagon following a fad
Making use of the knowledge
That we already had
Grand Pu, here to send the mind into a frenzy
I bet I'll swing something this
Summer for the Benzi
Seep into the mind the brain
And activate the pelvis
Keeping the blind, dumb, deaf
And blind is Elvis meaning old, so behold
(The black, the beautiful, the bold)
Now if this falls short, I'll try harder
A wisdom to me is someone like Assata
I'd like to say peace to Bambaata
Tasah Kuma, Ahmed, and Kenyatta
Brothers that'll fight for the cause
And they live in the boundaries
Of the righteous laws
To be exact, dominant means black
But some have a hard time
Trying to swallow that
Now we have some that are fake
Wearing blue eyes and green eyes, come on
Gimme a break brand Nubian here to wake up
Take off the makeup
'cause all it'll do is cake up
Just be real that's how I feel brand Nubian

Nubian, a native or inhabitant of Nubia
Nubian, A member of one of a group
Of African tribes that formed a
Powerful empire between Egypt
And Ethiopia from the 6th to 14th century
Nubian, any of several languages spoken in
The central and northern Sudan
And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian
As the midnight oil burns, our minds turn
Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn
We're here to teach so you'd
Might as well learn
That the tree has the knowledge
For what you yearn brand Nubian