Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool   We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do   Always do what we must, everything that we touch   Is going platinum plus, comin' through in a clutch      Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool   We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do   Always do what we must, everything that we touch   Is going platinum plus, comin' through in a clutch      A lot of y'all niggas is 85th on some shady shit   Bark is much worse than your bite like a baby pit   In the pitch dark of the night you's afraid to get exposed   like the sunlight which rose in the morning      Froze in a gunfight, forcing those   Who run with you to reevaluate affiliations   We salivate from hunger, placed in fucked up situations   And wonder when retaliation will occur, build destroy he or her      It's time to fill the void, niggas kill the noise   To the young boys, you fuckin' with a grown-ass man   Watch your tone or get acquainted with the back of my hand   Nubian Brand steadily influencin' fans      For other rappers we gon' ruin your plans   What we doin' stands as a motto   Like Grace Jones' nipple to the bottle   We pioneer and never follow      We're out for the lion's share now watch me take it there   Yeah, my verbal clarity speaks for my popularity   Sell 5 million CDs and give the proceeds to my favorite charity   Son, I ain't gonna super splash you with no Fantasy Island shit      I mean I work hard for what I got and I be thankful for what I get   And if you practice, spit your verbs properly, not sloppily   Like monopoly, you can end up with cheese, whips and property   Oh damn, silly of me, I forgot to let y'all know      It's one thing you should never do in this game and that's sell your soul   I make a lot of sense then I go and make the dollars   Work hard like blue collars, ghetto scholars is hard to follow   Niggas say it's real rough today and I say what you say      They promised me 40 acres and a mule   And all I got was a project and a subway   I stay positive, niggas mistake that for not hard   Nigga I'm God, walk through North America like Master Farrad      Me and my squad, separating the peas from the pod   No bodyguard, fuck around and roll a tank through your yard      Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool   We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do   Always do what we must, everything that we touch   Is going platinum plus, comin' through in a clutch      Yeah, man, these 'Dick in the butt', rappers could get shot in the face   Dragged through the streets and probably left some place   I seem shootouts in the park, ball games turned tragic   Bitch niggas gettin' smacked and smacked again      In front of they girl, and she's throwing away that ass   And I ain't really asked for it cos a lot of niggas tore it   And yes, my man Hav had bought me something from VA   I was gonna hit him with doe but he ain't real want no shorts      'Cause we had worked together and he knew I was true blue   Man, I swore I would never go to VA again   Until I found out who killed my best friend   I can tell by the wind somebody's gettin' ready to bend      They lifestyle's 'bout to end, I'm in these African cabs   On stores run by the Arabs with pictures of yen   Seem like they schemin'   Herculoid cats get flattened and reduced to pitchin'   That girl gave you crabs but I can't explain those scabs   Ha ha, where we at? Flash one-time      Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool   We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do   Always do what we must, everything that we touch   Is going platinum plus, comin' through in a clutch      Straight outta Now Rule, Brand Nu keepin' cool   We drop a jewel and never stoppin' what we do   Always do what we must, everything that we touch   Is going platinum plus, comin' through in a clutch      Ha, '98, too soon   Brand Nubian, what?