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196120\n  - text: 'no '\n    start_ms: 196440\n  - text: 'matter '\n    start_ms: 196580\n  - text: 'who '\n    start_ms: 196900\n  - text: 'you '\n    start_ms: 197160\n  - text: are\n    start_ms: 197260\nplain: |-\n  Yeah yeah, uhh, uh-huh\n  Brand Nubian, yeah, yeah, check it\n\n  You don't have to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are\n\n  Uhh, now it started it off for me in apartment six c\n  Project style, ate government cheese for a while\n  Pop Duke wasn't there 'cause he had to do a bid\n  So momma love stuck with these bad ass kids\n  She used to say keep your head up, always think positive\n  And never be ashamed of who you are or where you live\n  Teenage years I had to struggle doing that\n  Shorty say \"don't talk to him, girlfriend, look where he live at\n  Crib probably crawlin' with roaches and rats\n  Plus cats be in his hallways with the drugs and the gats\"\n  I used to try and honeys used to walk on by\n  Now I'm damn near 20 and still ain't got no ride\n  Caught a record deal, now them same old chicks that used to walk on by\n  Go out their way to say hi\n  But they gets none\n  That's why I'm with the same girl from the same projects that I come from\n  Because\n\n  You don't have to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are, oh yeah\n\n  You don't have to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star, come on\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are\n\n  Well this is that time that you've waited for\n  Three linked from what was said to be extinct\n  You say take my weed smellin' ass home, I'm grown\n  More thirst than if I swallowed sand bags\n  Not fiending enough to go out and grab bags from women\n  I swear if we don't hear this on the air\n  I'll be down at the station\n  Your broadcast from Monday has now been switched to no day\n  With the class team that I'm with, we stay fit\n  Just like the calm before the twister hit\n  Brand Nubian name is gonna blister shit\n  We raise the flags in three places\n  Employ black faces from midnight blacks to light tan\n  Brand Nubian straight rate policy for the world\n  For your little man, for your little girl, from Cheryl to Earl\n  Watch how it all go down and unfurl\n  Mark this print, I feel like we've all been sent\n  It's more than gettin' money and gettin' bent\n  (Word life, 'cause you're a shinin' star)\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are\n\n  You don't have to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are, yeah\n\n  Brand Nubian cats spread\n\n  A four-letter word seldom heard amongst my nation\n  Understandings highest elevation, the foundation\n  Of creation of motivation, in my family there's no relation\n  They got us willing to be killing off our population\n  Full-time occupation\n  We need to turn it around like oscillation\n  Or watch it all burn to the ground from frustration\n  Lord Jamar, I'ma show love to all my people who show\n  To me that's how it's gotta be\n  Peace to prodigy and Mobb Deep\n  God's working hard on the streets for the love of the peeps\n  Brothers bring their ass in the clubs every week\n  Walk right past the brothers and they can't speak\n  All hands meet to shake, for Pete's sake\n  Let's break the ice, life livin love, love livin life (Yeah)\n\n  You don't have to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are\n\n  You don't to drive a fancy car\n  Just for you to be a shinin' star\n  No matter who you are, no matter who you are\n"}]