Straight Outta Now Rule Lyrics - Brand Nubian

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?