Brother Ali - The Truth Is Here (Hip-Hop content)

[KeithBMI]

Has anyone else listened to this? I've never heard of Brother Ali, but I was browsing through the hip-hop section and found him. His newest album was released on March 10th.

The beats are ******* sick.

YouTube - Brother Ali - The Believers ft. Slug

Needless to say, I bought the entire album.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Brother Ali is good, if you dig him you should check out the rest of the Rhymesayers rappers.

[rezin]

i'm an ali fan, but i actually didn't like that cd that much. i preferred the previous stuff.

[Vorago]

Blasting 'Shadows from the sun' through my speakers as we speak.

It opens with 'Room with a view'. Now there's a way to open an album

I try to block it out with a bed sheet the moonlight's as a curtain
'Cause I'm not comforted by red and blue lights when I'm hurtin'
Mommy loves you yeah I knew but I wasn't certain
'Cause the lenses through which she views life wasn't workin'
As a boy she told me wait till' your father to come home
I'm 24 still waitin' for my father to come home
And some parents only touch they children when a whips brought
That's why bad kids do bad ****, just so they could caught
And get touched, this growing up ****'s rough
That's a big part of why were so mixed up
**** we don't have Bar Mitzvah's
We become men the first time our father hits us
And we don't open gifts up

[jefkritz]

brother ali is the man. if you dig that, check out atmosphere (also in the rhymesayers crew) for some more underground minneapolis hip hop.

[Vorago]

And new albums by El-P & Aesop Rock coming out soon