A Day in the Life

featuring Brand Nubian

[Lord Jamar]

Aw yeah back to basics kicking shit in Asics it's like this

It's just a day in the life (of three black men) (Repeat 3x)

Day one...

I wake up to the sun in the morning after justice hour

Get dressed but first my mind gets blessed

Not words but best cess compressed in a philly

Silly of me to think that I

Could ever have a morning where the phone didn't ring, I am sir

A sweet young thing, once a romancer

I didn't really fancy her, so build equality

I get a beep downstairs from Y.Z.O.

Knowledge in his head, beats pump the red Geo

Tracker, and in it, we get much blacker

Ride around town running down crackers

Last Sunday of the month so to Harlem we went

Not clubbing, the parliaments of Harriet Tubman

Peace to the Gods, peace to the earths

Peace to the seeds, peace to the birth

Of the nation of the 5%

That's it, I tell the gent brothers to represent

We left the rally now we're maxing uptown

8th Ave, 25th, 45th, and the Polo Grounds

And when it's time to refuel

Lord Jamar jump in the car, say "Back to the Rule"

It's like that y'all, you know it's as sharp as a knife

It's just a day in the life, it's just a day in the life

[Diamond]

It's just a day in the life (of three black men) (Repeat 3x)

Day two, yo check this out

Every day when I wake up, phone calls seem to take up

My time, but I don't mind because it's fine

I don't get heated even though I can't sleep

Jump in the shower, then I brush the teeth

Hit the stereo in an instant

Then I twist up a bud, light an insync

Call up a honey if I'm not feeling sunny

Or call up my boys when I want to make noise

The brother Lord Jamar, the brother Derek X

Ahem, oh I forgot, I meant "Sadat"

X and I flex when I'm writing a rhyme

I got thousands in the bank but I never did a crime

Afternoons I go shopping, but I don't lift

Back in '84 I used to wear K-Swiss

Catch me in Yonkers in the mall buying gear

Take in a movie and sit in the rear