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["Rat Pack" style announcer]
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Well ahh, good evening my nubian brothers and sisters ahh
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Tonight we got a REALLY big show ahh really big show ahh
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Con-duc-ting his Con-cer-to in X Minor
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We have, the brother, Derek X
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Ahh, his theme tonight, will be on
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racism, in a New Yawrk, backdrop
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Brother Derek X..
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[Derek (Sadat) X]
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Aw yes yes yes thank you thank you thank you
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and alla that, yo
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Before I get this wreck I wanna give a STRONG shout
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to all the positive brothers and sisters that's out there
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And I just wanna let y'all know
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who I came down here with
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I slid in here with Lord J
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and Alamo with the A
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And I came to get wreck, like THIS!!
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I'm kinda blessed so I wrote this manifesto for life
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Co-signed by the others with a knife
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* Alamo cuts and scratches "Brand Nubian!" *
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On the real tip let's take a field trip from the ghetto
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You pick the time and we'll meet in the meadow
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to discuss racial issues and tension
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New York's a powder keg did I forge to mention?
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* Alamo cuts and scratches "New York, New York" *
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Now case in point y'all remember that Brooklyn Bridge joint
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when things got wild and willy?
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Yeah that day the FEDS played the role of the bully
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"Up against the car!"
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"Yo I ain't even do nuttin man"
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"Aiyyo shut up or you get smacked!"
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"Yo why you pushin me why you hittin me man?"
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Now Huey Newton was slain and we all felt the pain
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of Yusef Hawkins, and they was mad but we was squakin
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They tried to show a false compassion, yet at the rally
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they tried to bash in our brains
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Further adding to the bloodstains
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I was mad at this news and so was my brothers
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And I wanted to get violent but I'm a lover of black mothers
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And black mothers need sons
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Not children that's been killed by guns..
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It's, just a-nother form of slavery, a modern day lynchin
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The others get the world, the black man feels the tension
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inside, not out to hide, just provides us all the answer
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I will stop racial injustice if I get the chance to!
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* Alamo cuts and scratches "When the revolution comes" *
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Now, the
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civilized man's main goal is to teach
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And I try to achieve this with verbal outreach
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in my community, and all outlaying counties
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Spread the message of good with my Now Rule mighty
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Step up to the right, dispense and be known
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Remember what I said is to teach your own
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at home first, and as we disperse
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I sparks your head like a cloudburst
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Ya don't stop, ya don't quit
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Derek X I'm guaranteed to be the ultimate
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(Brother Derek X) I kicks the flavor!
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So bust that I drop the stack from my almanac
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It's all truth so it's got to be a shown fact
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So keep on this is the dawn of the Capricorn Turtle
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A rhyme that I kick is stored daily in my journal
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or my diary when speakin on the black man I gets fiery
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The record's in the record store, category's black war
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Best you ever saw and it comes in a three or a four pack
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In a month or two I'll be back
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to confer with you on both of my works
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In my contract, I get crazy perks from Elektra
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See me kick this rhyme and I covered the whole spectrum
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This is the final verse, grand finale in Crescendo
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Message substance of the X cannot be thrown out the window
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unseen, lean two years past the teen
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Never use makeup got a natural sheen
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It's like that y'all let's have a ball
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I'm Derek X about six feet tall
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Yeah and as I stop this wreck for one sec
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I wanna give a shout to the Grand Puba
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Also to club kid Marley Marl ("I understand that time is running out")
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Pete Rock from the Vernon
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I wanna give a shout to Mike P and Cherokee also in Tucson
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("I understand that time is running out")
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Rich with the carry on
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I wanna give a shout to all the Gods in Now Rule
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("Understand that time is running out")
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Melacasis, Sea and my man True Born
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I wanna give a shout to Big Bob ("Time is running out")
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Scooby Real and the whole Mob from the Stallion Mark the Spark
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And I'm outta here
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* Alamo cuts "Running out" *
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Concerto In X Minor
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Brand Nubian |