Straight Off Da Head Lyrics - Brand Nubian

Yeah, yeah, for your mind 

Hmm right, let's see what we can come up with 

Record after record, yeah, rhyme after check it 

In the studio, on the first try 

On the verse high only birds fly 

You get out the pack like that y'all 

Straight off da head 

(What?) 

Let niggaz know I use to wear the pro 

Get three strikes yo, I used to have to court awarder 

But now I got a daughter and she gotta grow 

And I let her know that that ain't the way to go 

My name is X, yo, I'm like a puzzle when I get released 

Just like I had my muzzle off 

Check it out yo, I can never be sold 

You don't stop and you don't stop 

(And you don't quit) 

(We're makin' hit after hit, after hit y'all) 

You don't stop 

Comin' straight off da head one time it's the dread Lord J 

Come around the way, would you say? 

One time with my crew, manifessin' 

Just like that, now who you think you tessin'? 

Brand Nubian, my crew be in effect, 

Get erect with the blunts and ya check 

Right in, one time, goin' to the bank, I'm 

Cashin' and you know I be stashin' 

In the mattress, one time with the phatness 

Beats, I be blowin' up, showin' up 

At shows, checkin' all the hoes 

Just like that and defeatin' all my foes, go for jack 

Yo, my name is X, yo, my name is X 

And I was born in the BX, I went to New Rochelle 

Know my man, Mark the Spark who live in the Vernon 

And my man be they rhythm, dwell in Bronxdale 

In the home of the boss, goin' down the block or go to forest 

Keep on goin' past Morris High School 

Then I go down the street to Courtland Ave. 

Vietnam, the male goes in Jackson 

Over the bridge, on 45th to 8th Ave. 

Go to 7th Ave., go to Polo Grounds 

Go to Drewham, 1-0-6 all the way to 1-10 

Black Puerto Rican and Dominican, check it out 

We're gonna show you how we live 

Take you straight across the bridge 

To Medina where the Gods is meaner, wisdom is cleaner 

Straight down on Flatbush Ave. 

Some of the streets in Brooklyn'll make you laugh 

Names like Myrtle and Willoughby 

Things like Scurmerhorn and Classun 

And funny names like that but still they got the gats rollin' 

Just like that, that's how we be strollin' 

Maestro Manny and my man Big Ill, we fill blunts 

Just like that we kill stunts 

Guts and what'cha want like that, we got nuts 

Just like that 'cos it's phat 

Check it out, yeah 

(Like that, ya don't stop) 

And I keep on goin' 

I keep on goin' 

(Just like that, ya don't stop) 

My head keep goin' on 

Rob deep from mackadocious, your cut be close 

With the one blade, ever since the first grade 

I been a fan of the rap and I can do this 

I use to watch and listen, and watch the ol' time greats 

And watch 'em how they did things and I learned it well 

I rip in New Rochelle, that's where I dwell 

Check it out, my name is X, yo, my man Mark the Spark's with me 

My man Serge got the urge to splurge, he came from Cleveland 

All the way from Ohio, he's gonna letcha know 

Can you deal with his flow? Yo, yo 

Aiyo, peace to the Gods, peace to the earth 

Peace to the birth of me and my seed Khari 

It's like that in effect one time, and I'm 

The black man, intelligent with the plan 

Islam be the bomb, droppin' on the devils 

Goin' to a higher level 

Peace to Farrakhan and the Nation like that 

Creation is black, one time, that's a fact 

Original solar, I'm Lord Jamar 

Yes I be the intelligent one, I be the sun shinin' 

Like the light in the night, but still I be bright 

One time, now I recite the lessons for ya 

One time, messin' for ya or check it out, without a doubt 

Peace to the Gods, sincere, makin' it clear 

Peace to Tamiq, yeah that's the language we speak 

Peace to Knowledge, he didn't go to college 

But still he got the supreme mind