Brand Nubian - Foundation lyrics

Brand Nubian baby, here to flip it again
And you know it don't stop
Until the party ends
So get your hands up high
If you feel me reply
Cos you know these brothers here
We keep it extra tight

Look, listen and observe
It took precision to connect
The words of dialect within a
Rhythm you never heard
Forbidden fruit, take a bite
You could lose your life
Like how they crucified Christ
Musa's hair was white
Lord Jamar, Sadat X and Puba's here tonight
We got next on the court
I don't know what you thought
This flow can't be bought, only sold
In exchange for platinum and gold


You've been told
Open up the manifold only to
Reveal scrolls and scrolls
Premeditated to be dedicated to lost souls
Properly educated, never sloppily operated
Playing the beats for all
My people incarcerated
We stay in the streets and
Find new ways to eat
Crime wave, I remember wetting my feet
In my blind days
Now these niggas getting they heat
From under they seat
I wonder when the guns'll deplete

Brand Nubian brothers here to flip it again
And you know we don't stop
Until your party ends
So get your hands up high
If you feel me reply
Cos you know these brothers here
We keep it extra tight the Foundation
As we hit you with a Brand Nu creation
New millennium we don't mess around
Do the knowledge as we blaze the situation
So just feel me now

I'm in a rush, who got the keys to my truck?
Who am I? I just might be a spy
I drop a tear at the sight of the blue NY
I'm a threat just like Garnette
Pick a player out my set like Marbury
Serve me sherry with a cherry
I always eat what you think
I ain't got no shoes on my feet
I'm from down the street, huh
Now cats ride around New York
With the slick hot rods
Some late model usually pushing full throttle
Hanging illegal U's and staying
With the gleaming shoes
Riding one deep but back to back to back
Fuck a buzz, it's gonna happen just because
Sure I was with her was
But I don't know what she does
Big dimes hit me everytime like it's a crime
My prime will steadily climb
Yeah, I can't release nothing to
Y'all before it's time

Brand Nubian brothers here to flip it again
And you know we don't stop
Until your party ends
So get your hands up high
If you feel me reply
Cos you know these brothers here
We keep it extra tight the Foundation
As we hit you with a Brand Nu creation
New millennium we don't mess around
Do the knowledge as we blaze the situation
So just feel me now

Now my verbal illustration graphic
More than Playstation
Microphone occupation operation save
The nation
Black crusader, persuader, educator
Knowledge detonator none greater
Leave haters stuck like a project elevator
Always jammin it airtight like a laminate
You can't contaminate it
Go-getters we be superb like
Justin's catfish fritters
Now I got 2000 flows
Only 4 less than all of my hoes (Hey)
Oops I mean my bro's but I'm
Just keeping y'all on your toes
Excitement for your enlightenment
Spitting novels, getting bravos
Tear it up like El Nino
Keeping it hotter than jalapenos
Microphone holder doing more damage
Than rolling boulders
Rhyme style should've fooled ya
Knocked your head right off your shoulders
See my intention, black-on-black prevention
Break the tension teach the seeds
Tell them what they need and
Then collect my pension brand Nubian, baby
Born more flows than a test tube valve
Your radio ain't really on if Brand
Nubian ain't on your dial

Yeah, as we do it like this
2000, Brand Nubian comin atcha one time
New millennium style