Another one of them long ass breaks. Damn, Brother Ali where the hell you been? What, you disappear?
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Stop the presses give me couple seconds
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Let tell my friends what¡¯s up with big brethren
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New year new beard a new record
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Made a few adjustments I want to discuss it
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In a life of pain and sadness
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Never would¡¯ve guessed that a taste of success
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Would¡¯ve been the first time I ever got depressed
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I know I¡¯m blessed I just couldn¡¯t adjust
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In life all I ever knew how to do is fight
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Scrapped on the playground fighting for the mic
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Trying to build a life with an insane wife
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Fighting for a little bit of time in the light
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Then I got a daughter a car and house
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No one left to fight with but myself
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Gained a lot of weight wasn¡¯t thinking about my health
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Maybe the music I¡¯m making could help
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I can¡¯t drive ¡®cause this albino shit
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Told you I was legally blind that¡¯s legit
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I ain¡¯t want Ant to have to come scoop the kid
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So I bought a crib a couple blocks from his
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That¡¯s the greatest friend I ever had
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Like a brother to me a borderline dad
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Maybe making a record will get me on track
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Help fix whatever¡¯s wrong with my head
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I jumped back in the basement at once
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Made the album Us in a couple of months
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But I can¡¯t lie to y¡¯all I felt lost
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Energy I brought might¡¯ve been a bit off
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Couple great moments though of course
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Babygirl Puppy Love and The Travelers
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I toured two years off that album
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Was on the road ten months out of one of them
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Did the globe with my brother BK
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My life coach slash DJ
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Literally been with me since day one
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Had a lot of hard times had a lot of fun
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Long story short he got hell of a wife
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Catastrophe damn near ended her life
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Brought our wifeys out to Hawaii
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These fuckers got pregnant on Waikiki
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He said "I need to talk to you Ali
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This is what you were born to do, but not me"
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So after Soundset two thousand and ten
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Say goodbye to my Deejay but not my friend
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My career ain¡¯t stop it just grew
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I rock(ed) the bells and Glastonbury too
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Close enough to smell Beyonce¡¯s perfume
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But it just ain¡¯t the same without dude
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Couldn¡¯t slow me down no lord
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Stayed on the planes and the busses and cars
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Brought a young DJ into the squad
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Sucker quit on me cause I toured too hard ¡°Wahhhh¡±
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On to the next one
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Then me and Ant had trouble connecting
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If I was here then he was always there
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Touring or recording with Atmosphere
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What the hell's goin on with my career
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Within a year my team disappeared
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Got a phone call on the 4th of July
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My dad died, he committed suicide
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Shit should've been there for him
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Had to fly home from Europe to bury him
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Im sorry, I need a minute
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Bismillah...) Alright, listen
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Trying to hold this marriage together
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But me and my baby barely see each other
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I¡¯m in France with the fans taking pictures
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She¡¯s with the kids making dinner doing dishes
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She ain¡¯t got to worry bout me screwing other [?]
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But that ain¡¯t enough to make a woman feel precious
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If we don¡¯t start to intersecting
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We got no choice but grow in different directions -Damn
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I got that phone call again
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You know the kind you never want to get
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Mikey¡¯s mom couldn¡¯t get a hold of him
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And found him dead in his apartment
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Just drowning in tears
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Probably won¡¯t get over that in all my years
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I¡¯ll remember forever
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A day later boarded a plane to Mecca
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And the next month changed my life
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Listening to God in the holy sites
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Inklings I had all my life
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Suddenly presented themselves in plain sight
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Any doubts I had about the mic
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And whether or not what I write is right
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Fell out of sight like the tears on the floor
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Now I¡¯m going harder than I ever did before
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Got a couple of beat tapes from Jake
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Genuine dude and his music is great
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I told Zach to hold my tour dates
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Roll the tape I got something to say
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So, I¡¯m gonna go make this album. Let me start it off right though
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Stop The Press
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Brother Ali |