Brand Nubian - Black Star Line lyrics
[red foxx] ** best guess ** Follow me! upon a black star line Off for the rest and for brand nubian Now go to africa again, watch dis! Chorus: repeat 4x [sx] black star line [lj] it's the black star line [lj] everybody come aboard [sx] and free your mind [sadat x] It's the black star line that's leavin at nine Here's a paid ticket so you can free your mind Playgrounds is filled with visions of steel Grab the black babies it's time to build [lord jamar] See we got a mental ship somethin like noah's ark Spark your brain cell now let's set sail (with no avail) we flowin on a positive trip All nubians is welcome, male and female [sadat x] I, wouldn't resort, to askin for a pa**port Love vibes rule so your black face is cool [lord jamar] Cool, but not frozen, a trip for the chosen few.. [red foxx] ** best guess ** Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner Goin to africa, one more time (3x) Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner Goin to africa, one more time, true! Let me tell you bout marcus garvey Born in jamaica, god left him in country He go to america to make black people free He walk around low and just try make money Him buy up some ship and just start for we America or africa and live irie We hav some man where wan gonna be Young nasty and just licky licky Some love marcus garvey, the place of peace Or peace around it, and dem sparkle up him say I just light up, make the first hungry Writer no block it but just run follow me Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner Goin to africa, one more time Form a line-ah, upon the black star liner Brand nubian!! tell dem one more time [sadat x] As we look to the stars, they take ours Yeah we got fly cars but you can live in four wheels? We need new approaches, old style is null and void Makes me paranoid, to think That we own the whole ocean yet we can't even drink [lord jamar] You couldn't swim the nine thousand so we got you a means Of transportation, for the nubian nation Marcus garvey had the idea back in the days Doin for self, keepin the wealth I gotta add on and create Though the devil thinks it's not the latest fashion Navigatin lost, somethin like a ship's captain Chorus [red foxx] ** best guess ** When i'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black (2x) Call me proud to be black, cause i'm not tryin to f** When i'm proud to be black, i'm not some young eedyot (2x) Be gone! i want no dem i want no dem-dem dem-dem dem-dem Never know they wickedness they haffa come to an end Don't take a no fey word for de white boy dem Awayaa tell me - all you get in de end Awayaa tell me - all you get isa dem Awayaa tell me - all you get more den dey spend C'mon, tell de world black man entertainer Rock dem one and rock entertained Tell the red foxx style dem a get When i'm ova, arms will be raised for the tom-toms Push up ya arm they call ya proud to be black (2x) [lord jamar] Brand nubian wanna give nuff respect to the one marcus garvey [sadat x] Nuff respect to red foxx [lord jamar] Sting international in the house [sadat x] Dave kennedy on the boards [lord jamar] Knowhati'msayin? the one rafael [sadat x] Nuff respect to the god sincere [lord jamar] Yeah, yaknowhati'msayin? mark the spark is in the house And umm, this how we work out For the ninety-two season