A deceptively sunny and upbeat Jake One-produced number provides the backdrop for Brother Ali to ponder key social questions of our depression-hit times such as “How are so many poor people conservative?” And since he’s clearly a lot more patient than I am, he explains to those same people how they are responsible for their wannabe neo-feudal overlords “those companies took your
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BROTHER ALI: Work Everyday (2013) video
BROTHER ALI: Mourning In America (2012)
Rhymesayers’ finest, Brother Ali, delivers a track here that is profoundly unsympathetic towards the ethos of the NRA, US government foreign policy and violence-bent firearms-bearing individuals everywhere. God knows how you’re supposed to defend your ill-gotten foreign commercial interests, protect yourself against all those thieving immigrants or massacre your teachers
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BROTHER ALI: The Bite Marked Heart EP + ‘Shine On’ video (2012) – Free download
Just in time for Valentine’s day, Rhymesayers rapper Brother Ali comes through with The Bite Marked Heart EP complete with the Nikki Jean-featuring paean to love-at-first-sight Shine On. The video alone (see below) is worth a look just to check out Ali’s chat-up technique. There he is on his Jack Jones in a restaurant when in walks lone beauty. Any normal bloke would be checking her ass out from behind the menu but not Ali. Oh no
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BROTHER ALI: UK Tour (2012)
He recently dropped the wicked little Jake One-produced Writer’s Block video and now there’s more good news regarding Rhymesayers best export, rapper Brother Ali, who’s back in the UK in May with a five date tour. The good news doesn’t end there though. Ali will be touring to promote his upcoming LP Mourning In America, Dreaming In Color and that whole package is exclusively produced by…Jake One. Ali and Jake One together
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BROTHER ALI: Writer’s Block (prod. Jake One) (2012) video + free download
We’ve all been there – no matter how hard you strain, nothing comes out. Yep – writer’s block is a bastard. Thankfully, the jewel in the Rhymesayers label’s crown, Brother Ali managed to gain relief by the ingenious means of writing about the fact that he couldn’t think of anything to write about. And it wouldn’t be the first time in hip-hop that this solution to lyrical constipation has
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RHYMESAYERS: London Tour Stories video (2011)
In which various artists on the 2011 Carhartt/ Rhymesayers tour relate why they love the Big Smoke. Or not. Slug found the bacon undercooked, Budo informs us that he’s half English and like everyone this side of the Atlantic he already drinks tea with pinkie raised and salutes the Queen while Evidence hates Heathrow but thinks the weed is pretty good. Thus it is Brother Ali alone, who
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RHYMESAYERS PRESENT: The Rhymesayers European Tour – Atmosphere/ Brother Ali/ Evidence (of Dilated Peoples) / Blueprint/ Grieves & Budo (2011)
Rhymesayers? They’re not law obeyers they’re non-stop rhythm rock poetry sayers and they’ll be proving it by invading Europe this November starting in London. Actually they probably are law obeyers, that bit just sounded good. Yes, this autumn is all about emo-hoppers Atmosphere and various homies from the underground behemoth of a label that Atmosphere founded: Brother Ali, Evidence, Blueprint and Grieves and Budo
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ATMOSPHERE: ‘She’s Enough’ video (2011)
She’s Enough off new LP The Family Sign is Atmosphere’s new track about Slug’s missus. Since it’s Atmosphere though, it’s not ‘she’s enough’ as in ‘Bloody hell mate, one’s enough! Christ – imagine having two wives?!’ but rather ‘she’s enough’ as in ‘she completes me, I’ll do anything she wants.’ This sentiment is conveyed through the medium of video by the juxtaposition of Slug’s lyrics
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BROTHER ALI: UK summer tour dates 2010 cancelled
It looks like Brother Ali is having a bummer in the summer. The Minneapolis rapper has had to fly back home to the states due to a family tragedy and as a consequence his scheduled UK summer has had to be cancelled with no news of a re-schedule as yet, if at all. Spare a thought for the big man next time somebody moans about how their summer’s been ‘ruined’ by England’s poor performance in the World Cup.
BROTHER ALI: UK tour dates and free download ‘Don’t Look At Me, Look Around’
He’s white, he’s Muslim and he’s not Barry from Four Lions. Yup, it’s dope MC Brother Ali of last year’s freshest underground LP and he’s back on these shores later this month and early next month. Thus, if you missed him last time around (like me) now’s your chance to catch up…just don’t mention ‘rubber dinghy rapids.’ Also, there’s a free Brother Ali track Don’t Look At Me, Look Around for FREE DOWNLOAD of which he says, “A few weeks ago I put out a call on Facebook and Twitter for producers to send me beats for Streets’ Mixtape and received over 900 beats in the first 24 hours. I ended up choosing this track from Medium Zach and did the song the next day. Peep game.” Tour dates below:
Brother Ali – UK tour dates June/ July 2010
26th June – Glastonbury Festival
08th July – Dingwalls, London
09th July – The Cooler, Bristol
10th July – Freebutt, Brighton
