One for all (One for all baby)
But it's freedom or death, exert speed til my last breath
My conglomerates reign dominance with prominence
That's the way we do (That's the way we do)
I be the slave that always misbehave, runnin for days
Me for you (Fo' sho', I'm for you, dogg)
My rhyme flow be imported, got so many different styles my shit is assorted
That's the way we do (That's the way we do)
I'm ridin on the underground rail, hidin from the face that's pale
U for me (Yeah sho' nuff)
That's the way we do (That's the way that we do)
One for all (One for all baby)
Me for you ('98-'99)
Talkin bout cabbin off the bat
U for me (Is it in like that?)
Me for you (Me for you, huh)
That's the way we do (And that's the way, that's the way, that's the way)
And me for you (Me for you)
U for me (That's you for me)
It can't happen, why is ya still yappin?
See I'm here like welfare, got so many niggas livin my nickname should be
Never distorted, wanna catch my flow, better cam cord it
Sadat X Luther King
Yeah, we engage the enemy, arrange the assembly
One for all (One for all now)
Me and Harriet, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and take me home
That's the way we do (That's just the way that we do)
U for me (Brand Nu, Brand Nu)
Relax nigga, you here with me, we don't get down like that
And me for you (That's right)
I'm known by college grads and then by anyone who all knighted
Let me find out, y'all tryin to dine out without me there
Me for you (Me for you)
Thru the ages I existed only as a memory
Once a nigga begin to spit, get ya high like trees and shit
One for all (One for all)
Nobody wants to die and be a mural on the wall
Can y'all feel me because we feel y'all can
If they catch me they just might ax me
U for me (U for me, u for me y'all)
One for all (One for all)
They wanna break my bones and take me where they keep the tombstones
Yeah I keep truer, sidestep MC's like manure
Can't half step, Whitey's on my trail
That's the way we do (That's just the way we do)
Some of me exists inside your biochemistry
Weed spots is like my need spots, let freedom ring
I'm a take you there, believe me yo
One for all (One for all)
Me for you (and that's me for you)
One for all (Touche, here we go)
One for all (I said it's one for all)
U for me (Brand Nubian huh)
That's the way we do (That's just the way we do)
U for me (U for me)
Won't arraign me, they probably hang me
But I'll swing by you like Eve with a gun in my sleeve
U for me (Uhuh)
I ain't got no time to play, I'm trying to get away
But I told the bouncer, I said "Yo that's not my fault
The North Star help me find my way
One for all (One for all)
Flip thru the pages of time, do you remember me?
That's the way we do (That's the way we do)
Why you so excited? You scarin chicks and grabbin em
U for me (That's you for me)
Ya heard my shit be off the optimately optimate
Play the corner like a sewer, keep it milky like Kahlua
One for all (One for all)
Smoke the tree right off the times, long live Brand Nubian
Bloodhounds tryin to track me down, tryin to bring me back to town
Yeah I moosh, watch me hook it off like a Nike swoosh
I'm the apostle y'all, I'm like Samuel L.L
Me for you (Uhuh)
Me for you (Uhuh, keep it goin)
That's the way we do (That's the way we do)
There's no need for assault", push and hit the asphalt
Son, a lot of niggas thought I was done but I only just begun
"Air"
I keep 13 with one in the ass, you Catholic mass
That's it, then I push it uptown to the Bush
Me for you (Fo' sho', here we go)
Now I'm a peaceful man, would you do for me, or is it
U for me (U for me)
You for me, me for you, that's how we do, 99-to-two-thou Brand Nu
I wanna 1000 from the housing, don't know how much the club allows in
