Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down

Brand Nubian

("Get nothin' but a beat down!")



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Punks jump up to get beat down!



("Get nothin' but a beat...")




Sadat X:



One day when I was ridin' on the train I seen these two kids talkin'



about the Nubian reign had fallen.



I didn't say nothin' cuz these kids caught my goat,



even wore my coat like a murder that they wrote.



So this kid with mouth swagger 'n I'll blaze the cloak and dagger



so I gotta show Dukes the macho lot that I am.



I can rock a jam, make the world drop ham,



oh yes, I'm the bad man, and bad men wear black.



And if it comes to droppin' bombs, yo, I'm with that.



Though I can freak, fly, floow, fuck up a faggot.



Don't understand their ways I ain't down with gays.



You wanna grab the style that was made from my mom and my dad,



when I was young I used to run with a notepad.



Then dimes knew and somehow I knew that I was bad to the bone...



black prodigy since the age of twen-ty.



I could write a rhyme, rip it up and write a next one,



right on the spot, sign my name with a dot.



Diamond D threw me some smooth shit, Bronx crowd roar.



Stick up your wack jam, everybody hit the floor.



Okay it's you, Slim, the hard rock of the pack,



don't wanna kneel to the brothers, you must be holin'.



Bust some shit in his chest, now his whole body's swollen.



Why did I have to do it? He asked for it.



His man saw it, so it don't mean shit to me.



He's gone, that's how it's supposed to be....check it out now.



I ain't goin' out, man that short shit is dead,



have you heard what I said? If not, ask the dread.



He got a can and that's bad...similar to the one that I got from my own dad.




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