Brand Nubian Discography
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Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, composed of three emcees: Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar, and formerly two DJs: DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere. Their debut studio album, One for All (1990), is one of the most popular and acclaimed alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s, known for socially conscious and political lyrics inspired by the teachings of The Nation of Gods and Earths. In 2008, About.com placed the group on its list of the 25 Greatest Rap Groups of All Time.
Brand Nubian formed in 1989 and their first single, "Brand Nubian," was released in 1989. Signed to Elektra Records by A&R man Dante Ross, their debut album, One For All, was released in 1990. Generally acclaimed, the album drew fire for militant Five-Percenter rhetoric on tracks such as "Drop the Bomb" and "Wake Up".[citation needed] The controversy helped selling in excess of 400,000 copies.[citation needed] A version of the Fab Five Freddy-directed video of the single "Wake Up," featuring a black man in white-face makeup, was banned from MTV. On that channel and from official WEA sources, this image was replaced by a Baptist preacher. The singles "Slow Down," "All for One," and "Wake Up" all became hits on Billboard’s Hot Rap Tracks chart in 1991.
Shortly after the group's debut release, Grand Puba quarreled with Sadat X and Lord Jamar, and he left the group, along with DJ Alamo, to pursue a solo career.Following this, Lord Jamar and Sadat X asked DJ Sincere to join the group in 1992. The same year, Puba released his solo debut, Reel to Reel.
At the end of 1992, Brand Nubian released the single "Punks Jump up to Get Beat Down". The track created controversy because of its homophobic content such as Sadat X's line "I can freak, fly, flow, fuck up a faggot/I don't understand their ways; I ain't down with gays". Despite this, the single charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 77.Later versions omitted the line and replaced it with different lyrics, including the version on the greatest hits compilation The Very Best of Brand Nubian.
Studio Albums:
(1990) One For All
(1992) In God We Trust
(1994) Everything Is Everything
(1998) Foundation
(2004) Fire In The Hole
(2007) Time's Runnin' Out
(2020) One For All (30th Anniversary Remastered) (Limited Edition)
EP:
(2005) Hi-Five: Brand Nubian (EP)
(2009) The Now Rule Files (EP) (Limited Edition)
Compilation:
(2010) Enter The Dubstep, Vol. 2
(2017) The Very Best Of Brand Nubian (Remastered)
Single:
(2004) Who Wanna Be A Star? (It's Brand Nu Baby!) / Just Don't Learn (Single) (Promo)
(2004) Young Son / Still Livin' In The Ghetto (ft. Starr) (Single)
(2021) Don't Let It Go To Your Head (Maxi-Single)
(2021) Let's Dance (ft. Busta Rhymes) (Single)