Lyrics: All For One
Rob Miller
Just passing this along for a friend. (?)'s are not-sures.
Peace.
-Rob rmi...@pokvmcr3.vnet.ibm.com
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All For One - Brand Nubians
I hit a beat and swing a note as if my name was David Ruffin
Quick to toast an MC just like an English Muffin
Don't worry about a thing because the Puba's never bluffin'
I catch headaches from the wack, so then I take a Bufferin and I max
I wait until the opportune time, then I tax - but should I max?
Now they say sinning is for sinners so I guess I'm not a sinner
Beginnings for beginners so I guess I'm no beginner
This is how I spark it puts loots in my pocket
and when it comes to having pleasure I get hard as a rocket
M.C. Grand Pooh coming through all the residue
The songs remaining classic dating back to the Babaloo (?)
My boys I call 'em up, the foes I let 'em jock
I can think of many episodes I swung at Lincoln Park.
Though I'm not a phony and I got a tenderoni
I love the way she is not too fat, not too bony
Don't drink sanka won't sink like a tanka
I knock the boots of a certain casablanca and I thank her
Some rappers stink like Englebert Humpledink (?)
Better yet Dick Cavett I got a bad habit (?)
Similar to the girl on She's Gotta Have It
I think with the brain not with what's behind the zipper
I'm livin' kinda good similar to Jack Tripper
A landlord named Roper did a show at the Copa
When I finish with this I'll be paid like Oprah
So if honey wants to act fly
I'll just play like guy
and I'll say see you later
Here comes the man and you'll find none greater
A program to slam winter, summer, spring or fall
Before I do a show I get some kicks at the mall
and then I get my gear and I give Trev a call
'cause he works at the barbershop right behind the mall
Other rappers try to ride me but you know they got did
To put it blunt - Huh! Honey I shrunk the kids
So boga's back off break north, here comes the regulator
Betcha that you'll find none greater.
Cause it's all for one - Brand Nubians
...and one for all - Brand Nubians
On file is a style that's why you caught a clip
My suitcase is packed and I'm going on a trip
To Micadelphia, I go for self and still be slamming (?)
School bell's ringing and I caught somebody cramming
for a test, oh yes, my study guide is thick
Cut you with my verbal didn't hurt you just a nick
off your face don't play possum
watch me blossum
like a rose
and get some new clothes
and a fresh fade from Rob
Jump on the phone and dial the now rude mob
Now come one swing 'em all, he's about to get hectic
If my crew don't get in, the X makes an exit
to the rear
I'm outta here
Don't front on my brothers
I take care of them before I take care of others
Now wood bats is doomed in the 90's it's aluminum
Step to the stage with a mike and doing them
something awful
I'm a citizen and I'm lawful
I go hunter in the fall, ripped the policeman's ball (?)
I got the power to make a car stall
I get some drinks from the glackers (?)
and when the crowd slackens I stop drinking
and then I start thinking
about the days in the past, when Derrick X was last
But now I'm on the top, damn news travels fast
'cause I'm like that, and they can't see this
Read my book, it contains many pieces
of verses, I took the time to delete all the curses
So moms reach deep in your purses
and buy me take me home and try me, do me well
it's one for all - Brand Nubian
it's all for one - Brand Nubian
Well, while I reign, rhymes pour
Suck it up like a straw and jump on the dance floor
'cause every time I step in a jam
I make like a door and slam
Then girls try to turn my knob 'cause I'm a hearthrob
I guess that's a hazard that comes with the job
Every time I rock a rhyme Jamar is intellectual
girls want to get sexual
I guess I have to cope with being so dope
You want to be me, but can't see me with a telescope
You seek and search but still you can't find
Your weak and it hurts to be deaf, dumb and blind
A supreme mind will take you out of your paralysis
I grip the mike so tight I get callouses
And your analysis is that the lord
whips rhymes into shape with a mike cord
I do it good 'cause I'm a positive black man
Eatin up suckers as if it was pacman
Not a dapper dan fan I stay casual
To rock like the J it comes gradual
Gotta know the way otherwise your dumb
Understand your culture and freedom
Power evenly with the gods
so you can build and bond your psyche from
All your life you must teach truth
of a true living god not a mystery spook
And when you do that, pursue that and don't be a stooge
and you'll go on and you'll prosper.
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