Brand Nubian - 2006 Remastered Version

Brand Nubian function
 A junction of three
 Collaboration 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
 400 years and we're 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 my 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 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 deaf dumb 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
 Tasa Kuma(?), Achmed, and Kenyatta
 Brothers that'll fight for the cause
 And they live in the boundaries of the righteous laws
 To put it 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
 (DX) A native or inhabitant of Nubia
 Nubian
 (LJ) A member of one of a group of African tribes that formed a poweful
 Empire between Egypt and Ethiopia
 From the 6th to 14th century Nubian
 (GP) Any of several languages spoken in the central and northern Sudan
 And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian
 (DX) 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