🎵 All for One // by Brand Nubian

45 ContributorsAll for One Lyrics The opening salvo on the group’s classic One for All album, this song shows off all three group members at their most virtuosic and playful, while still making plenty of time for dropping knowledge.… Read More  [Verse 1: Grand Puba] 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 bluffing I gets headaches from the wack, so then I take a Bufferin and I max I wait until the opportune time and then I tax but should I max? Now they say sinning is for sinners so I guess I'm not a sinner Beginning's for beginners so I guess I'm no beginner This is how I spark it, puts money in my pocket When it comes to having pleasure I gets hard as a rocket MC Grand Pu coming through all the residue The songs remain classics dating back to the Babalu My boys I call 'em Akh, the foes I let 'em jock And I can think of many episodes I swung in Lincoln Park No I'm not a phony and I got a tenderoni Love the way she is - not too fat, not too bony Don't drink Sanka, won't sink like a tanker Knock the boots off a skirt in Casablanca and I thank her Some rappers stink like Engelbert Humperdinck Better yet Dick Cavett, I got a bad habit Similar to the girl on She's Gotta Have It I think with the brain and not what’s behind the zipper I'm living kinda good similar to Jack Tripper A landlord named Roper did a show at the Copa When I'm finished with this I'll be paid like Oprah So if honey wants to act fly I'll just play like Guy and I'm (saying, "bye, bye, dumb bitch!") Stick out your thumb and hitch Cause you've been cut off like a light switch See I'm programmed to slam, winter, summer, spring or fall Before I do a show I get some kicks out the mall Then I get my gear and I give Trev a call Cause he works in the barbershop, right behind the mall Other rappers tried to rob me but you know they got did To put it blunt, honey I shrunk the kids So bookers back off break North here comes the regulator Betcha that you find none greater [Hook] "One for all" BRAND NUBIAN "And all for one" BRAND NUBIAN "One for all" BRAND NUBIAN "And all-and all for one" BRAND NUBIAN [Verse 2: Sadat X] On file is a style, that's why you caught a clip My suitcases is packed and I'm going on a trip To Mic-a-delphia I go for self and still be slamming The school bell is ringing and I caught somebody cramming For the test, oh yes, my study guide was thick I cut you with my verbal, didn't hurt you just a nick Off your face, don't play possum watch me and I'll blossom Like a rose and get some new clothes And a fresh fade from Rob Jump on the phone and dial the Now Rule Mob The come one, come all, we about to get hectic If my crew don't get in, then the X makes a 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 The wood bats is doomed, in the 90's it's aluminum Step to the stage with a mic and I'm doing 'em something awful I'm a citizen and I'm lawful I go to Hunter in the fall, rip the policemen's ball I got the power to make a car stall I get some drinks from Glackens, and when the crowd slackens I stop drinking and then I start thinking about Days in the past when Derek X was last But now I'm on the top, damn, news travels fast Cause I'm like that, 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 and do me well [Hook] "One for all" BRAND NUBIAN "And all-and all for one" BRAND NUBIAN "One for all" BRAND NUBIAN "And all- and all for one" BRAND NUBIAN [Verse 3: Lord Jamar] Well, while I reign rhymes pour You 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 But then girls try to turn my knob 'cause I'm a heartthrob I guess it's just a hazard that comes with the job Cause every time I rock a rhyme that shows Jamar is intellectual Girls want to get sexual Well 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 You're weak and it hurts to be deaf, dumb and blind A supreme mind will take you out of your paralysis I grip the mic so tight I get callouses And your analysis is that the Lord Whips rhymes into shape with a mic cord I do it good cause I'm a positive black man Eating up suckers as if I was Pac-Man Not a Dapper Dan fan, I stay casual To rock like the J it comes gradual You got to know the ledge to wise the dumb And understand your culture of freedom Power equally with the Gods So you can build and born your cipher All your life you must teach truth Of the true and living God, not a mystery spook And when you do that, pursue that goal Which made the student enroll and only then you'll prosper [Outro] "One for all" "And all-and all for one" "One-one for all" "And all-and all for one" "And all-and all for one" "And- and all for one" "And all-and all for one" "And- and all for one" "One for all"