Shinin' Star Lyrics - Brand Nubian

Yeah yeah, uhh, uh-huh 

Brand Nubian, yeah yeah, check it 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

Uhh, now it started it off for me in apartment 6C 

Project style, ate government cheese for a while 

Pop Duke wasn't there 'cos he had to do a bid 

So momma love stuck with these bad ass kids 

She used to say, "Keep your head up, always think positive 

And never be ashamed of who you are or where you live 

Teenage years I had to struggle doing that" 

Shorty say, "Don't talk to him, girlfriend, look where he live at 

Crib probably crawlin' with roaches and rats 

Plus cats be in his hallways with the drugs and the gats" 

I used to try and honeys used to walk on by 

Now I'm damn near 20 and still ain't got no ride 

Caught a record deal, now them same old chicks 

That used to walk on by go out their way to say, hi 

But they gets none that's why I'm with the same girl 

From the same projects that I come from because 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

Well this is that time that you've waited for 

Three linked from what was said to be extinct 

You say, "Take my weed-smellin' ass home" 

I'm grown more thirst than if I swallowed sand bags 

Not fending enough to go out and grab bags from women 

I swear if we don't hear this on the air I'll be down at the station 

Your broadcast from Monday has now been switched to no day 

With the class team that I'm with, we stay fit 

Just like the calm before the twister hit 

Brand Nubian name is gonna blister shit 

We raise the flags in three places 

Employ black faces from midnight blacks to light tan 

Brand Nubian straight rate policy for the world 

For your little man, for your little girl, from Cheryl to Earl 

Watch how it all go down and unfurl 

Mark this print, I feel like we've all been sent 

It's more than gettin' money and gettin' bent 

Word life, 'cos you're a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

Brand Nubian cats spread 

A four-letter word seldom heard amongst my nation 

Understandings highest elevation, the foundation 

Of creation of motivation, in my family there's no relation 

They got us willing to be killing off our population, full-time occupation 

We need to turn it around like oscillation 

Or watch it all burn to the ground from frustration 

Lord Jamar, I'ma show love to all my people who show 

To me that's how it's gotta be peace to prodigy and Mobb Deep 

God's working hard on the streets for the love of the peeps 

Niggas bring their ass in the clubs every week 

Walk right past the brothers and they can't speak 

All hands meet to shake, for Pete's sake 

Let's break the ice, life livin' love, love livin' life 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are 

You don't have to drive a fancy car 

Just for you to be a shinin' star 

No matter who you are, no matter who you are