《Brand Nubian》歌词

[00:00:20] Verse one：Lord Jamar

[00:00:24] Brand Nubian function

[00:00:28] A junction of three

[00:00:29] Collaboration in a style that's like funk

[00:00:33] To slap palms swing arms

[00:00:36] Tap a soul

[00:00:38] Cause no rock rolls down our hill

[00:00:41] Yo black it's kinda ill

[00:00:44] We don't roll no rocks we just fill

[00:00:46] Heads with knowledge pure foundation

[00:00:49] Showing and proving through the manifestation

[00:00:52] Of our name which is Brand Nu

[00:00:54] Brand Nubian and we've come to

[00:00:59] Make the people aware that black means first

[00:01:02] 4000 years and we're made to feel cursed

[00:01:05] But now it's our time to rule

[00:01:07] Student of the old teacher of the new school

[00:01:09] My inspiration is the five percent nation

[00:01:11] As I cram education was born

[00:01:12] Like a thorn in your side I have sworn

[00:01:14] Never to divide with Brand Nubian

[00:01:16] Verse Two：Derrick X

[00:01:18] Sadat X

[00:01:19] You have to stand as a black man

[00:01:22] Brand Nubian

[00:01:23] From the Sudan plus I never ran

[00:01:25] I'm from Africa the central region

[00:01:29] There I grew and formed a legion of my force

[00:01:32] See me riding on a jet black horse at any cost

[00:01:35] Brand Nubians will rise up and be the boss and show it

[00:01:39] All fairness if you're black and show awareness

[00:01:41] You can rally 'round the flag

[00:01:42] Stand tall or don't stand at all

[00:01:45] You're with the three and the three won't sag to the floor

[00:01:47] Besides picture that I'm painting I can draw

[00:01:50] See me work nine to five on my easel

[00:01:54] My physical is strong and my mind is cock diesel

[00:01:57] Brand Nubian function in conjunction with the three

[00:02:00] Verse 3：Grand Puba

[00:02:02] Brand Nubian

[00:02:03] Not on a bandwagon following a fad

[00:02:05] Making use of the knowledge that we already had

[00:02:08] Grand Pu here to send the mind into a frenzy

[00:02:10] I bet I'll swing something this summer for the benzi

[00:02:13] Seep into the mind the brain and activate the pelvis

[00:02:18] Keeping the blind deaf dumb and blind is Elvis

[00:02:21] Meaning old so behold

[00:02:22] The black the beautiful the bold

[00:02:24] Now if this falls short I'll try harder

[00:02:26] A wisdom to me is someone like Assata

[00:02:28] I'd like to say peace to Bambaata

[00:02:30] Tasa Kuma

[00:02:30] Achmed and Kenyatta

[00:02:32] Brothers that'll fight for the cause

[00:02:34] And they live in the boundaries of the righteous laws

[00:02:36] To put it exact dominant means black

[00:02:39] But some have a hard time trying to swallow that

[00:02:42] Now we have some that are fake

[00:02:44] Wearing blue eyes and green eyes come on gimme a break

[00:02:47] Brand Nubian here to wake up

[00:02:50] Take off the makeup cause all it'll do is cake up

[00:02:52] Just be real that's how I feel

[00:02:56] Brand Nubian

[00:02:57] Verse four

[00:02:58] Nubian

[00:02:58] DX

[00:02:59] A native or inhabitant of Nubia

[00:03:01] Nubian

[00:03:02] LJ

[00:03:03] A member of one of a group of African tribes that formed a poweful

[00:03:06] Empire between Egypt and Ethiopia

[00:03:08] From the 6th to 14th century Nubian

[00:03:10] GP

[00:03:10] Any of several languages spoken in the central and northern Sudan

[00:03:17] And that's why we call ourselves Brand Nubian

[00:03:20] DX

[00:03:21] As the midnight oil burns our minds turn

[00:03:23] Make a mistake and be fake and you'll burn

[00:03:26] We're here to teach so you'd might as well learn

[00:03:31] That the tree has the knowledge for what you yearn

[00:03:32] Brand Nubian