brother ali is back in town
came a long way to make that sound
break through earth from hallowed ground
played with my blood to wear this crown
brother ali is back in town
break through earth from hallowed ground
played with my blood to wear this crown
i ain't in to bein ostentatious
i offered the pages that caught a lot of y'all in the matrix
invaded the remotest possible places
yeah it's hard to explain it
i've been around the world
left my heart on them stages
i follow all the greatest
that shaped this and they're all innovators
i'm so firmly grounded in the basics
get pounded to the pavement
dealin with the voice of the nameless
your participation ain't gonna be painless
i won't debate that i'm sort of a sadist
i use most your faces to sharpen my blade with
it's a hostile arrangement
your eyes never spied where i've been
low parts where the heights of rhymin
back alleys where the dice is flyin
clean mighty tights or your life survivin
nights where the roaches or mice might slide in
the highest you can climb is that limelight
and so downin on that mic meant fightin
braggin rights are all that you rhyme with
can't stand to see all your pride get sliced in
bet i'm a stomp this motherfuckin party 'til it's cold and lifeless
and there's like a russian dude
against me and dibbs and art and the god loves ugly crew
and it's like a line and i walk in between 'em
and i just start goin off
i'm a get on the phone and i'm a make everybody cry
i'm about to call the homies
but you know like the old pimp dude had a piece or somethin
and it was about to jump off