Straight Outta Now Rule

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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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Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool 
We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do 
Always do what we must, everything that we touch 

A lot of y'all niggas is 85th, on some shady shit 
Bark is much worse than your bite like a baby pit 
In the pitch dark of the night you's afraid to get exposed 
Like the sunlight which rose in the morning 
Froze in a gunfight, forcing those who run with you to reevaluate affiliations 
We salivate from hunger, placed in fucked up situations 
And wonder when retaliation will occur 
Build destroy H-he or her 
It's time to fill the void, niggas kill the noise 
To the young boys, you fuckin' with a grown-ass man 
Watch your tone or get acquainted with the back of my hand 
Nubian Brand steadily influencin' fans 
For other rappers we gon' ruin your plans 
What we doin' stands as a motto 
Like Grace Jones' nipple to the bottle 
We pioneer and never follow 
We're out for the lion's share now watch me take it there 

Yeah, my verbal clarity speaks for my popularity 
Sell five million CDs and give the proceeds to my favorite charity 
Son, I ain't gonna super splash you with no Fantasy Island shit 
I mean I work hard for what I got and I be thankful for what I get 
And if you practice, spit your verbs properly, not sloppily 
Like monopoly, you can end up with cheese, whips and property 
Oh damn, silly of me, I forgot to let y'all know 
It's one thing you should never do in this game and that's sell your soul 
I make a lot of sense then I go and make the dollars 
Work hard like blue collars, ghetto scholars is hard to follow 
Niggas say it's real rough today and I say what you say 
They promised me forty acres and a mule and all I got was a project and a  subway 
I stay positive, niggas mistake that for not hard 
Nigga I'm God, walk through North America like Master Farrad 
Me and my squad, separating the peas from the pod 
No bodyguard, f*ck around and roll a tank through your yard 

[Chorus]

Yeah 
Man, these dick-in-the-butt rappers could get shot in the face 
Dragged through the streets and probably left some place 
I seem shootouts in the park 
Ball games turned tragic, bitch niggas gettin' smacked and smacked again 
In front of they girl, and she's throwing away that ass 
And I ain't really asked for it 'cause a lot of niggas tore it 
And yes, my man Hav had bought me something from VA 
I was gonna hit him with doe but he ain't reall want no shorts 
'cause we had worked together and he knew I was true blue 
Man, I swore I would never go to VA again 
Until I found out who killed my best friend 
I can tell by the wind somebody's gettin' ready to bend 
They lifestyle's bout to end 
I'm in these African cabs on stores run by the Arabs 
With pictures of yen, seem like they schemin' 
Herculoid cats get flattened and reduced to pitchin' 
That girl gave you crabs but I can't explain those scabs 

Ha ha, where we at? Flash one-time 

[Chorus: x2] 

Ha, '98, too soon 
Brand Nubian, what?

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