When The Beat Comes In-Brother Ali

[ti:When The Beat Comes In] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Shadows On The Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.03]Open the doors let the people in [00:01.66] [00:02.93]Turn up the mics let me speak to them [00:04.56] [00:05.60]Victorious when the evening ends [00:07.25] [00:08.21]It all starts when the beat begins [00:09.74] [00:10.46]You're now f**kin with the show stopper [00:12.53]A-l-i the Brother since "'89's the number" [00:15.37]F**k "another summer " I'm the world's most accurate [00:18.01]Take the roughest cats and get em passionate [00:20.26]Shake awake the walking dead Lazarus [00:21.74]With off-the-head narratives it'm embarrassing [00:24.44]I mean I'm the albino but y'all pale in comparison [00:27.57]I'm not arrogant oh sh*t well yeah I'm arrogant [00:30.31]Grab the microphone out your arm so fast I tear a limb [00:33.21]Roman fashion give yo soul a spasm [00:35.55]If you don't know find someone that knows and ask him [00:38.21]I'm right in front of ya tight muthaf**kin mic muzzler [00:40.79]Who might struggle ya my sh*t's wild like that [00:43.71]There's 8 million ways to stretch words around beats [00:46.20]And 6 million rappers be sharin the same three [00:49.04]But me takin the time to be creative with mine [00:51.70]Touch your soul till I see it in your face when I rhyme [00:54.52]And in the two or three seconds it may take to rewind [00:56.99]I hold a rapper to the flames until I make him resign [00:59.59]Want nobody hold your place in this rhyme you find a space to recline [01:02.84]You're dead got to stay breakin your spine [01:05.17]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [01:07.69]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [01:10.51]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [01:13.06]We settle the beef (when the beats commence) [01:15.93]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [01:18.67]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [01:21.32]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [01:24.09]We settle the beef [01:24.97] [01:26.58]Ladies and gentlemen Brother Ali bare the resemblence [01:29.48]Of Moses freein y'all with sentences vocabulary venomous [01:33.03]Telling domestic horror stories [01:35.15]Non-fiction with the majestic oratory [01:37.41]Instead of concentratin on strippin the youth naked [01:40.15]I give em the truth naked livin proof for the sacred [01:43.02]Unless I'm mistaken there's like three kind of people [01:45.65]Black people and white people and my people [01:48.07]I blister MC's and let em' twist in the breeze [01:51.10]I got a funny knack for bringin kids to their knees [01:53.42]Y'all got Christopher Reeve-sized bravery tryin to play with me [01:56.63]Have you in fetal positions shoutin "Get away from me " [01:59.35]Every day I see rappers I wanna slap or strangle [02:01.93]Around they neck disaster dangles so that's the angle [02:04.42]Next millennium same percentage of em are weak [02:07.20]Y'all thinkin y'all can rhyme don't even come from the streets [02:09.81]You got any sense at all you mean-mug and retreat [02:12.50]Or end up a human pinada hung from your feet [02:15.05]When I told you you were tight I had my tongue in my cheek [02:17.98]And you ain't lookin at my team buddy our huddle is deep [02:20.59]Born to hustle on beats I just have it within [02:23.17]If I had any more potential I would have to be twins [02:26.13]Cackle and grin when rappers begin to babble and spit away [02:28.86]Y'all should pick a day the it-day the off-the-ick day [02:31.39]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [02:34.14]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [02:36.69]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [02:39.58]We settle the beef (when the beats commence) [02:42.11]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [02:44.90]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [02:47.59]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [02:50.42]We settle the beef (when the beats commence) [02:52.71]I'm a desperado but I guess that y'all know that already [02:56.51]My stick-and-move flow pattern steady [02:58.38]The Bro has already dissed rappers of every race [03:01.16]Got em together for a "We Are the World" remake [03:03.62]If Ali's fake please take this opportunity to tell he [03:06.37]To his face get your infrastructure erased [03:09.21]When I flip damn it I'm fly kick sand in your eye [03:11.85]And tell your record company to eat a sh*t sandwich and die [03:14.70]Ali's a big teddybear [03:16.03]Till they scream "Stop slammin the car door that's my f**kin head in there " [03:20.47]Your teeth are everywhere I serve your family [03:22.85]And write about it in my journal like I'm Mister Belvedere [03:24.94] [03:25.63]I seldom stare in the sky only at nighttime [03:28.41]Envision endin your mission when I write rhymes [03:30.88]History's never witnessed a mission quite like mine [03:33.72]And the more they try to extinguish it the more the light shines [03:36.36]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [03:38.84]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [03:41.65]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [03:44.28]We settle the beef (when the beats commence) [03:46.69]Every father mother son and daughter send em to me [03:49.67]Do not approach the ock without bendin your knees [03:52.35]I might be on the stage but my head's in the streets [03:55.13]We settle the beef [03:56.05] [03:59.97]When The Beat Comes In - Brother Ali