'Round Here-Brother Ali

[00:21.88]Brother Ali is back in town [00:23.88]Came a long way to make that sound [00:26.68]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [00:29.12]Played with my blood to wear this crown [00:31.67]Brother Ali is back in town [00:34.11]World on my shoulder weigh me down [00:36.73]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [00:39.29]Played with my blood to wear this crown [00:41.32] [00:42.07]Uh fact about it I'm a force of nature [00:44.87]Leader of men boss of my organization [00:47.35]I ain't in to bein ostentatious [00:49.34]I offered the pages that [00:50.30]Caught a lot of y'all in the Matrix [00:52.46]Soon as I caught a break I was off to the races [00:55.02]Invaded the remotest possible places [00:57.46]Seen it first hand yeah it's hard to explain it [00:59.95]I've been around the world [01:00.79]Left my heart on them stages [01:02.57]They want your boy all all on they faces [01:05.07]Hollered out a roar they holla in amazement [01:07.50]I follow all the greatest A-list taste makers [01:10.39]That shaped this and they're all innovators [01:12.64]I'm so firmly grounded in the basics [01:14.79]Yeah dishonor get pounded to the pavement [01:17.10]Dealin with the voice of the nameless faceless [01:19.47]Face it your participation ain't gonna be painless [01:22.60]I won't debate that I'm sort of a sadist [01:25.15]I use most your faces to sharpen my blade with [01:27.77]Combat takin place not entertainment [01:30.14]Lives been lost it's a hostile arrangement [01:32.89]Brother Ali is back in town [01:35.20]Came a long way to make that sound [01:37.19]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [01:39.63]Played with my blood to wear this crown [01:42.31]Brother Ali is back in town [01:44.68]World on my shoulder weigh me down [01:47.55]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [01:49.90]Played with my blood to wear this crown [01:52.95]Uh your eyes never spied where I've been [01:56.00]Low parts where the heights of rhymin [01:58.56]Back alleys where the dice is flying [02:00.81]Darkness is trying the lights are blinding [02:03.49]Sheist environment the nights are violent [02:05.68]Red beam silent the siren's crying [02:07.99]Clean mighty tights or your life surviving [02:10.54]Nights where the roaches or mice might slide in [02:13.41] [02:14.04]The highest you can climb is that limelight [02:16.15]And so downing on that mic meant fighting [02:18.24] [02:18.80]Braggin rights are all that you rhyme with [02:20.86]Can't stand to see all your pride get sliced in [02:23.36]When the spotlight hit my **** y'all just [02:25.85]Bet I'm a stomp this ************ party [02:28.15]Till it's cold and lifeless [02:29.95]Close your eyelids behold the righteous [02:32.14]It's cold as night gets [02:33.95]Brother Ali is back in town [02:35.76]Came a long way to make that sound [02:38.00]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [02:39.56] [02:40.45]Played with my blood to wear this crown [02:43.07]Brother Ali is back in town [02:45.32]World on my shoulder weigh me down [02:47.50] [02:48.01]Break through Earth from hallowed ground [02:50.44]Played with my blood to wear this crown [02:53.07] [03:17.23]There was a standoff [03:17.85]And there's like a Russian dude a old black pimp dude [03:20.54]Some gangsta black dude some Armenian dude [03:23.03]Like a motley crew literally [03:24.66]Like a weirdo but street angry grown ass men [03:28.71]Against me and Dibbs and Art and the God Loves Ugly crew [03:32.21]And it's like a line and I walk in between 'em [03:34.47]And I just start going off [03:36.09]Like Cause Blood like ************ [03:37.71]I'm a get on the phone and I'm a make everybody cry [03:40.40]I'm just talkin crazy I'm mad this is my hometown [03:42.52]I'm about to call the homies [03:43.95]But you know like [03:44.66]The old pimp dude had a piece or something [03:46.45]Like a gun or something [03:47.63]And it was about to jump off [03:49.69]And then he goes like "oh ain't you Brother Ali " [03:52.11] [03:53.11]Brother Ali you a bad ************ man