Concerto In X Minor Lyrics - One For All - Brand Nubian

Well ah, good evening my Nubian brothers and sisters ah 

Tonight we got a really big show ah really big show ah 

Conducting his Concerto in X Minor 

We have, the brother, Derek X 

Ahh, his theme tonight, will be on 

Racism, in a New York, backdrop 

Brother Derek X 

Ah yes yes yes thank you thank you thank you 

And all of that, yo 

Before I get this wreck I want to give a strong shout 

To all the positive brothers and sisters that's out there 

And I just want to let y'all know 

Who I came down here with 

I slid in here with Lord J 

And Alamo with the A 

And I came to get wreck, like this 

I'm kinda blessed so I wrote this manifesto for life 

Co-signed by the others with a knife 

On the real tip let's take a field trip from the ghetto 

You pick the time and we'll meet in the meadow 

To discuss racial issues and tension 

New York's a powder keg did I forget to mention? 

Now case in point y'all remember that Brooklyn Bridge joint 

When things got wild and willy? 

Yeah that day the Feds played the role of the bully 

"Up against the car" 

"Yo I ain't even do nuttin' man" 

"Ayo shut up or eat this night stick" 

"Yo why you pushin' me, why you hittin' me man?" 

Now Huey Newton was slain and we all felt the pain 

Of Yusef Hawkins, and they was mad but we was squakin' 

They tried to show a false compassion, yet at the rally 

They tried to bash in our brains 

Further adding to the bloodstains 

I was mad at this news and so was my brothers 

And I wanted to get violent but I'm a lover of black mothers 

And black mothers need sons 

Not children that's been killed by guns 

It's, just another form of slavery, a modern day lynchin' 

The others get reward, the black man feels the tension 

Inside, not out to hide, just provides us all the answer 

I will stop racial injustice if I get the chance to 

Now, the 

Civilized man's main goal is to teach 

And I try to achieve this with verbal outreach 

In my community, and all outlaying counties 

Spread the message of good with my Now Rule mighty 

Step up to the right, dispense and be known 

Remember what I said is to teach your own 

At home first, and as we disperse 

I sparks your head like a cloudburst 

Ya don't stop, ya don't quit 

Derek X I'm guaranteed to be the ultimate 

(Brother Derek X) I kicks the flavor 

So bust that I drop the stack from an almanac 

It's all truth so it's got to be a shown fact 

So keep on this is the dawn of the Capricorn Turtle 

A rhyme that I kick is stored daily in my journal 

Or my diary when speakin' on the black man I gets fiery 

The record's in the record store, category's black war 

Best you ever saw and it comes in a three or a four pack 

In a month or two I'll be back 

To confer with you on both of my works 

In my contract, I get crazy perks from Elektra 

See me kick this rhyme and I covered the whole spectrum 

This is the final verse, grand finale in Crescendo 

Message substance of the X cannot be thrown out the window 

Unseen, lean two years past the teen 

Never use makeup got a natural sheen 

It's like that y'all let's have a ball 

I'm Derek X about six feet tall 

Yeah and as I stop this wreck for one sec 

I want to give a shout to the Grand Puba 

Also to club kid Marley Marl ("I understand that time is running out") 

Pete Rock from the Vernon 

I want to give a shout to Mike P and Cherokee also in Tucson ("I understand that time is running out") 

Rich with the carry on 

I want to give a shout to all the Gods in Now Rule ("Understand that time is running out") 

Melacasis, Sea and my man True Born 

I want to give a shout to Big Bob ("Time is running out") 

Scooby Real and the whole Mob from the Stallion Mark the Spark 

And I'm outta here