Straight Off Da Head - Brand Nubian

Straight Off Da Head - Brand Nubian
Yeah yeah for your mind
Hmm right let's see what we can come up with
Record after record yeah rhyme after check it
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 niggaz 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 stop
And you don't quit
We're makin hit after hit after hit y'all
You don't stop
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
Brand nubian my crew be in effect
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
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 45 th to 8 th ave
Go to 7 th 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
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 cos it's phat
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
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
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