[00:21.72]Brand Nubian function
[00:23.37]A junction of three, collaboration in a style that's like funk
[00:26.57]To slap palms, swing arms, tap a soul
[00:29.27]Cause no rock rolls down our hill
[00:31.56]Yo black it's kinda ill, we don't roll no rocks we just fill
[00:34.99]Heads with knowledge, pure foundation
[00:37.16]Showing and proving through the manifestation
[00:39.41]Of our name which is "Brand Nu"
[00:41.35]Brand Nubian and we've come to
[00:43.43]Make the people aware that black means first
[00:45.61]Four hundreed years and we're made to feel cursed
[00:47.87]But now it's our time to rule
[00:49.95]Student of the old, teacher of the new school
[00:52.29]My inspiration is the Five Percent Nation
[00:54.47]As I cram, education was born
[00:57.41]Like a thorn in your side I have sworn
[00:59.65]Never to divide with Brand Nubian
[01:11.77]You have to stand as a black man, Brand Nubian
[01:14.40]From the Sudan plus I never ran
[01:16.28]I'm from Africa, the central region
[01:18.82]There I grew and formed a legion of my force
[01:21.46]See me riding on a jet black horse at any cost
[01:24.91]Brand Nubians will rise up and be the boss and show it
[01:27.71]All fairness if you're black and show awareness
[01:29.95]You can rally 'round the flag
[01:31.81]Stand tall, or don't stand at all
[01:33.79]You're with the three and the three won't sag to the floor
[01:36.90]Besides the picture that I'm painting I can draw
[01:39.95]See me work nine to five on my easel
[01:41.88]My physical is strong and my mind is cock diesel
[01:44.47]Brand Nubian function in conjunction with the three
[01:57.51]Brand Nubian, not on a bandwagon following a fad
[02:00.41]Making use of the knowledge that we already had
[02:02.57]Grand Pu, here to send the mind into a frenzy
[02:04.96]I bet I'll swing something this summer for the Benzi
[02:07.15]Seep into the mind the brain and activate the pelvis
[02:09.34]Keeping the blind, deaf, dumb, and blind is Elvis
[02:11.53]Meaning old, so behold (The black, the beautiful, the bold)
[02:15.20]Now if this falls short, I'll try harder
[02:17.17]A wisdom to me is someone like Assata
[02:19.61]I'd like to say peace to Bambaata
[02:21.55]Tasa Kuma?, Achmed, and Kenyatta
[02:23.99]Brothers that'll fight for the cause
[02:25.82]And they live in the boundaries of the righteous laws
[02:28.16]To put it exact, dominant means black
[02:30.31]But some have a hard time trying to swallow that
[02:32.49]Now we have some that are fake
[02:34.62]Wearing blue eyes and green eyes, come on, gimme a break
[02:37.36]Brand Nubian here to wake up
[02:38.99]Take off the makeup, 'cause all it'll do is cake up
[02:41.44]Just be real that's how I feel
[02:43.33]Brand Nubian
[03:09.77]Nubian, a native or inhabitant of Nubia
[03:14.10]Nubian, A member of one of a group of African tribes
[03:17.31]That formed a powerful empire between Egypt and Ethiopia
[03:20.32]From the 6th to 14th century
[03:22.97]Nubian, any of several languages
[03:24.95]spoken in the central and northern Sudan
[03:27.45]And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian
[03:30.67]As the midnight oil burns, our minds turn
[03:33.83]Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn
[03:35.93]We're here to teach so you'd might as well learn
[03:38.06]That the tree has the knowledge for what you yearn
[03:40.09]Brand Nubian