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Brand Nubian

Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, consisting of three MC's: Grand Puba (born Maxwell Dixon, on March 4, 1966), Sadat X (formerly Derek X, born Derek Murphy, on December 29, 1968) and Lord Jamar (born Lorenzo Dechalus, on September 17, 1968), and two DJs: DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere. Its debut album, One for All is one of the most popular and acclaimed alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s, known for socially conscious and politically charged content inspired by the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths.About.com placed the group on its list of the "25 Greatest Rap Groups of All Time." more »

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1998

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[Featuring Common] 
[Grand Puba] 
Yeah, yeah yeah yeah 
One time as we do it like this, yeah 
Grand Puba, Common Sense 
[Common] 
Yeah, yeah, yeah 
It's all love y'all (3X) what you say? 
Intro/Chorus: all, Common 
[all] Maybe one day we can work it out 
Strive to understand what life's about 
All it seems to be is sadness and pain 
Blood like rain clogs urban drains 
[Com] When we gonna realize and make the change 
And take the blame, erase the shame 
Cause new millennium is knockin at your door 
The New World Order's what they got in store 
[Grand Puba] 
Now I can't stress this enough, life sure is rough 
You gotta go through a whole lotta shit 
Just for you to get a little bit 
Born into existence where your existence is non-existent 
but your persistence overcomes their resistance 
Your daily mechanism is your defense, whether it be 
past or present tense, don't be dense 
I'm droppin this with Common Sense (true indeed) 
As we linger on into the darkness 
Poisoned by society where high-anxiety is just one variety 
Hatin each other is another, brotha 
I mean I'm really true to the shit, my spit ain't just spit 
My duty is to save my people from all of this shit 
And if I can get somethin for doin that then I'm gon' get 
And I won't quit 
My ways and action manifest in my way of thinkin 
I just can't stand around and do nothin 
while my people sinkin 
I told you that I stay true 
And I gotta do, what I can do, when I can do, so 
Chorus 
[Common] 
Grand Pu...I'ma do....what I gotta do....what I can do 
It's one for all like Brand Nu-bian, feedin the multitudes 
Of five loads, dead men walkin with lost souls 
Some say the games are strange, our ways have been tribal 
Since the days of Kemet, now displayed on Bennett 
Revolution's like a pussy, I'm tryin to stay up in it 
And our music is a message, though some is afraid to send it 
I don't know much about the New World Order; I know I 
Got a new daughter, direction and protection I must provide for her 
The moral of the story I'm building... 
Like ODB say, "We for the children" 
Nike make a killin off us, we kill each other, it kills me to see that 
You take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that? 
We try to escape the mixtapes, rims and weed sack 
And to the new age, they say the women's gonna lead that, so 
Chorus 
[Pub] Oh say it ain't so 
[Com] It ain't so 
[Pub] My peoples at a all time low 
[Com] Double oh Pu' 
[Pub] Nowadays we doin anything for dough 
[Com] For the dough doe 
[Pub] Don't you know that knowledge is the note 
[Com] What? 
[Pub] Know the ledge, don't hit the edge 
The negativity pulls us down like gravity 
[Com] Yup 
[Pub] Devilish ways and actions poisons us like a cavity 
[Com] Yessir 
[Pub] As we send this one throughout our whole proximity 
[all] Grand Pu' and Common strive to come together 
[Common] 
In this era of prepaid calling cards 
I roll with squads called the Gods 
Ignorance is at large, struggles in our backyard 
I slapbox with life and see we wasn't that hard 
Long as you got God, even got Gramps off lah 
It's stray lies and bullets directed, to lead the village 
of lies disconnected like ghetto phones 
F*ck a search through a magazine for Better Homes 
It ain't gonna happen 
Til the devil's gone with the breeze 
and niggas get off they knees so... 
Chorus

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