Brother Ali - Victory! (Come Forward) lyrics

Victory ours are the cries that breathe
Life in the concrete victory
Ours are the tears that splash
Genius at God's feet victory
Ours are the prayers that weave
Poetry through drum beats victory

Step inside the mind of
A soon-to-be legendary straight paramilitary
Brother Ali exist to read the scripture
It's never read
Whoever said this underground Hip-Hop
Shit is dead must have fell and hit his head
Spent my lifetime buildin
Writin rhymes I remind rappers of everything
That scared them as children
They call me show stopper
No opera singer has hit the exact pitch
I spit my flow out of
Taught directly by the source
Of all knowledge


You don't affect me till you're
Forced to draw powers
Respect me as a voice amongst scholars
Who speak deep to thee
Move the sleep from your eye lids
Make your lungs flutter
Get it right, my inner light
Cast shadows on the sun, brother
I'm where the rubber meets the concrete
It's a cold world
Not sayin bring your your own heat
I'm just sayin don't sleep
I'm walkin with Allah until the
Day that I die and the pens have been lifted
And the pages have dried
And a thick smoke screen wrote
My name in the sky
Politickin with the angels knowin
They would reply got the lungs of a cyclone
Tongue of a python
The reason why your favorite MC
Sleep with the lights on
Right on, brother, we def as fuck
Not 'deaf' like (What?) but 'def' like (WHAT)
From the depths around the planet
Where my name's spoken
We here to get our brains
Open and our chains broken
Watch me walk around the planet
With the same notion
His adversaries thought the pain broke him
But we run up in a stadium with diagnostics
Two tables and a mic and take a crowd hostage
And the very first item on my list of demands
Is that all these freedom fighters
Start liftin they hands

To my freedom fighters and
The graffiti writers
And the people like us - come forward
And to the torch carriers speakin Arabic
Ridin on your chariots - come forward
To my political prisoners
Individual listeners
Who feelin this - come forward
And to the bone shakers and the home makers
Raisin our own saviors - come forward

Me and my people are
Signed, sealed, delivered, incorporated
Brought to you by Rhymesayers Entertainment
You got to face it, we not complacent
We came via the basement and
Left your face bent and me
Mister Brother Ali is
The stomp down-beat-kicker
Who walkin the streets with
The so real philosophy
Until I fulfill prophecy there's
No real stoppin me
Obviously I'm the bomb, believe me
Opponents come up missin and
They all beneath me
I know my soldiers need me
They call and beep me
I walk the streets freely
With chalk beneath me, boy
We stays gettin it on
Act hard and I probably make
You strip to your thong
Dissin your song and feel you mouth
To fist when you yawn
Nibblin on a rapper till the gristle is gone
I stand and sing from atop my minaret
I am a king, just ain't got my kingdom yet
And my anthem ring from the Congo to your set
I'm Alfred Hitchcock with my silhouette
Pourin Blood On Beats till
The trumpet is blown
Coffins, I release em when I'm up in the zone
Fortune favors the brave and press
On is the motto
Cast shadows on the sun with my bravado

To my freedom fighters and
The graffiti writers
And the people like us - come forward
And to the torch carriers speakin Arabic
Ridin on your chariots - come forward
To my political prisoners
Individual listeners
Who feelin this - come forward
And to the bone shakers and the home makers
Raisin our own saviors - come forward