Brand Nubian's 1990 debut album, One for All, has been canonized as a hip-hop classic. Since then the group's leader, a diminutive, mustachioed slacker known as Grand Puba, has gone solo. While Brand Nubian's devotion to the Five Percent Nation of Islam was in evidence on almost every track on One for All, on Reel to Reel, Puba restricts his political views to one song, "Soul Controller," a...