All for One (Radio Version 7" Edit)

One for all and all for one

One for all and all for one (Once again, Brand Nubian)

I hit a beat and swing a note as if my name was David Ruffin

Quick to toast an MC just like an English muffin

Don't worry about a thing because the Puba's never bluffin'

I gets headaches from the wack, so then I take a Bufferin and I max

I wait until the opportune time and then I tax, but should I max?

Now, they say sinning is for sinners so I guess I'm not a sinner

Beginning's for beginners so I guess I'm no beginner

This is how I spark it, puts loot in my pocket

When it comes to havin' pleasure, I gets hard as a rocket

MC Grand Pu' comin' through all the residue

The songs remain classics, datin' back to the Babalu

My boys, I call 'em akh, the foes I let 'em jock

And I can think of many episodes I swung in Lincoln Park

No, I'm not a phony and I got a tenderoni

Love the way she is, not too fat, not too bony

Don't drink Sanka, won't sink like a tanker

Knock the boots off a skirt in Casablanca and I thank her

Some rappers stink like Engelbert Humperdinck

Better yet, Dick Cavett, I got a bad habit

Similar to the girl on She's Gotta Have It

I think with the brain and not what's behind the zipper

I'm livin' kinda good, similar to Jack Tripper

A landlord named Roper did a show at the Copa

When I'm finished with this, I'll be paid like Oprah

So if honey wants to act fly

I'll just play like Guy and I'll say, "See you later"

Here comes the man and you're flying, young gator

I'm programmed to slam, winter, summer, spring, or fall

Before I do a show, I get some kicks out the mall

Then I get my gear and I give Trev a call

'Cause he works in the barbershop right behind the mall

Other rappers tried to rob me, but you know they got did

To put it blunt, honey, I shrunk the kids

So, bookers, back off, break north, here comes the regulator

Bet you that you find none greater

So, Alamo, tell me, what's he gonna do?

Because it's

One for all (Brand Nubian) and all for one (Brand Nubian)

One for all (Brand Nubian) and all for one (Brand Nubian)

On file is a style, that's why you caught a clip

My suitcases is packed and I'm going on a trip

To Mic-a-delphia, I go for self and still be slamming

The school bell is ringing and I caught somebody cramming

For the test, oh, yes, my study guide was thick

I cut you with my verbal, didn't hurt you, just a nick

Off your face, don't play possum, watch me and I'll blossom

Like a rose

And get some new clothes and a fresh fade from Rob

Jamar on the phone and now the Now Rule Mob

The come one, {swing 'em} all, we about to get hectic

If my crew don't get in, the X makes a exit

To the rear, I'm outta here, don't front on my brothers

I take care of them before I take care of others

The wood bats is doomed, in the 90's it's aluminum

Step to the stage with a mic and I'm doing 'em something awful

I'm a citizen and I'm lawful

Check it out

I go to Hunter in the fall, rip the policemen's ball

I got the power to make a car stall

I get some drinks from Glackens, and when the crowd slackens

I stop drinking and then I start thinking about

Days in the past when Derek X was last

But now I'm on the top, damn, news travels fast

'Cause I'm like that, they can't see this

Read my book, it contains many pieces of verses

I took the time to delete all the curses

So, moms, reach deep in your purses

And buy me, take me home and try me and do me well

One for all (Once again, Brand Nubian) and all for one (Once again, Brand Nubian)

One for all (Once again, Brand Nubian) and all for one (Once again, Brand Nubian)

Well, while I reign, rhymes pour

Suck it up like a straw and jump on the dance floor

'Cause every time I step in a jam

I make like a door and slam

But then, girls try to turn my knob 'cause I'm a heartthrob

I guess it's just a hazard that comes with the job

'Cause every time I rock a rhyme that shows Jamar is intellectual

Girls wanna get sexual

I guess I have to cope with being so dope

You want to be me, but can't see me with a telescope

You seek and search, but still, you can't find

You're weak and it hurts to be deaf, dumb, and blind

A supreme mind will take you out of your paralysis

I grip the mic so tight, I get callouses

And your analysis is that the Lord

Whips rhymes into shape with a mic cord

I do it good 'cause I'm a positive black man

Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man

Not a Dapper Dan fan, I stay casual

To rock like the J, it comes gradual

Gotta to know the 'ledge to wise the dumb

And understand your culture of freedom

Power equally with the gods

So you can build and born your cipher

All your life, you must teach truth

Of the true and living God, not a mystery spook

And when you do that, pursue that goal

Which made the student enroll, and only then, you'll prosper

One for all (Brand Nubian) and all, and all for one (Brand Nubian)

One for all (Brand Nubian) and all, and all for one (Brand Nubian)