Straight off da Head

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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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1994

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Yeah, yeah, fo' your mind 
Hmm right, let's see what we can come up with 
Record after record, yeaaah, rhyme after rhyme check it 


[Sadat X] 

In the studio, on the first try 

On the verse high only birds fly 

You get out the pack like that y'all 

Straight off da head (what?), let niggas know I use to wear the pro 

Get three strikes yo, I used to have to court awarder 

but now I got a daughter and she gotta grow 

And I let her know that that ain't the way to go 

My name is X, yo I'm like a puzzle when I get released 

Just like I had my muzzle off, check it out yo 

I can never be sold 

You don't stop (and you don't quit) and you don't stop 

(We're makin hit after hit after hit y'all) Ya don't stop 


[Lord Jamar] 

Comin straight off da head one time it's the dread Lord J 

Come around the way, would you say? 

One time with my crew, manifessin 

Just like that, now who you think you tessin? Uhh 

Brand Nubian, my crew be in effect, uhh 

Get erect with the blunts and ya check 

right in, one time, goin to the bank, I'm 

cashin, and you know I be stashin 

in the mattress, one time with the phatness 

beats, I be blowin up, showin up 

at shows, checkin all the hoes 

Just like that and defeatin all my foes 

Go for jack 


[Sadat X] 

Yo my name is X, yo my name is X and I was born in 

the BX, I went to New Rochelle 

Know my man Mark the Spark who live in the Vernon 

And my man be they rhythm, dwell in Bronxdale, in the home of the 

boss, goin down the block or go to forest 

Keep on goin past Morris High School 

Then I go down the street to Courtland Ave. 

Vietnam, the male goes in Jackson 

Over the bridge, on 45th to 8th Ave. 

Go to 7th Ave., go to Polo Grounds 

Go to Drewham, 1-0-6 all the way to 1-10 

Black Puerto Rican and Dominican, check it out 


[Lord Jamar] 

Uhh, we're gonna show you how we live, take you straight across the bridge 

to Medina where the GODs is meaner, wisdom is cleaner 

Straight down on Flatbush Ave. 

Some of the streets in Brooklyn'll make you laugh 

Names like Myrtle and Willoughby 

Things like Scurmerhorn and Classun 

and funny names like that but still they got the gats rollin 

Just like that that's how we be strollin 

Maestro Manny and my man Big Ill, we fill blunts 

Just like that we kill stunts 

Guts, and what'cha want like that, we got nuts 

Just like that 'cause it's phat, uhhh 


[Sadat X] 

Check it out, yeah (Like that, ya don't stop) 

And I keep on goin, I keep on goin (Just like that ya don't stop) 

My head keep goin on 

Rob deep from mackadocious, your cut be close 

With the one blade, ever since the first grade 

I been a fan of the rap and I can do this 

I use to watch and listen, and watch the ol' time greats 

and watch em how they did things and I learned it well 

I rip in New Rochelle, that's where I dwell (Uhh) 

Check it out, my name is X, yo my man Mark the Spark's with me 

My man Serge got the urge to splurge, he came from Cleveland 

All the way from Ohio, he's gonna letcha know 

can you deal with his flow, yo yo? 


[Lord Jamar] 

Aiyo, peace to the GODs, peace to the Earth 

Peace to the birth of me and my seed Khari 

It's like that in effect one time, and I'm 

the black man, intelligent with the plan 

Islam be the bomb, droppin on the devils 

Goin to a higher level 

Peace to Farrakhan and the Nation like that 

Creation is black, one time, that's a fact 

Original solar, I'm Lord Jamar, yes I be the 

intelligent one, I be the sun shinin 

Like the light in the night, but still I be bright 

One time, now I recite the lessons for ya 

one time, messin for ya or 

check it out, without a doubt 

Peace to the GODs, sincere, makin it clear 

Peace to Tamiq, yeah that's the language we speak 

Peace to Knowledge, he didn't go to college 

but still he got the supreme mind

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