Victory!-Brother Ali

[ti:Victory!] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Shadows On The Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Victory! - Brother Ali [00:04.80]Victory [00:05.68] [00:06.62]Ours are the cries that breathe life in the concrete [00:09.30] [00:10.03]Victory [00:11.14]Ours are the tears that splash genius at God's feet [00:14.38] [00:15.31]Victory [00:16.36]Ours are the prayers that weave poetry [00:18.52]Through drum beats [00:19.56] [00:20.30]Victory [00:21.24] [00:25.57]Step inside the mind of a soon-to-be legendary [00:28.49]Straight paramilitary [00:29.89]Brother Ali exist to read the scripture [00:31.84]It's never read [00:32.96]Whoever said this underground hip-hop sh*t is dead [00:35.80]Must have fallen on his head [00:37.09]Spent my lifetime buildin [00:38.43]Writin rhymes I remind rappers of everything [00:41.28]That scared them as children [00:42.73]They call me show stopper [00:44.12]No opera singer has hit the exact pitch [00:46.47]I spit my flow out of [00:47.88]Taught directly by the source of all knowledge [00:50.35]You don't affect me [00:51.38]Till you're forced to draw powers [00:52.94]Respect me as a voice amongst scholars [00:55.77]Who speak deep to thee [00:56.78]Move the sleep from your eye lids [00:58.55]Make your lungs flutter [01:00.04]Get it right my inner light [01:01.38]Cast shadows on the sun Brother [01:03.41]I'm where the rubber meets the concrete [01:05.18]It's a cold world [01:06.03]Not sayin bring your your own heat [01:07.42]I'm just sayin don't sleep [01:08.70]I'm walkin with the lion till the day that I die [01:11.20]And the pens have been lifted [01:12.54]And the pages have dried [01:14.08]And a big smoke screen [01:15.29]Wrote my name in the sky [01:16.61]Politickin with the angels [01:18.00]Knowin they would reply [01:19.35]Got the lungs of a cyclone tongue of a python [01:22.15]The reason why your favorite MC [01:23.74]Sleep with the lights on [01:24.98]Right on brother we def as f**k [01:27.11]Not 'deaf' like (What ) but 'def' like (WHAT ) [01:30.11]From the depths around the planet [01:31.65]Where my name's spoken [01:32.86]We here to get our brains open [01:34.49]And our chains broken [01:35.40]Watch me walk around the planet [01:37.07]With the same notion [01:38.19]His adversaries thought the pain broke him [01:40.10]But we run up in a stadium with diagnostics [01:42.77]Two tables and a mic and take a crowd hostage [01:45.49]And the very first item on my list of demands [01:48.12]Is that all these freedom fighters [01:49.59]Start liftin they hands [01:51.02]To my freedom fighters and the graffiti writers [01:53.52]And the people like us come forward [01:55.75]And to the torch carriers speakin Arabic [01:58.29]Ridin on your charriots come forward [02:01.05]To my political prisoners individual listeners [02:04.19]Who feelin this come forward [02:06.25]And to the bone shakers and the home makers [02:08.67]Raisin our own saviors come forward [02:11.66]Me and my people are signed [02:12.64]Sealed delivered incorporated [02:14.69]Brought to your by Rhymesayers Entertainment [02:17.26]You got to face it we not complacent [02:19.89]We came for your debasement [02:21.38]And left your face bent [02:22.76]And me mister [02:23.70]Brother Ali is the stomp-down-beat-kicker [02:26.33]Who walkin the streets with the so real philosophy [02:29.61]Until I fulfill prophecy there's no real stoppin me [02:33.45]Obviously I'm the bomb believe me [02:35.79]Opponents come up missin [02:36.92]And they all beneath me [02:38.39]I know my soldiers need me [02:39.94]They call and beep me [02:41.13]I walk the streets freely with short [02:42.94]Beneath me boy [02:43.82] [02:44.82]We stays gettin it on [02:46.26]Act hard [02:46.91]And I probably make you strip to your thong [02:48.88]Dissin your song [02:49.93]And feel you mouth to fist when you yawn [02:51.74]Nibblin on a rapper till the gristle is gone [02:54.32]I stand and sing from atop Mount Ararat [02:56.80]I am a king just ain't got my kingdom yet [02:59.44]And my anthem ring from the Congo to your set [03:02.14]I'm Alfred Hitchcock with my silhouette [03:04.47]Pourin Blood On Beats till the trumpet is blown [03:07.26]Coffins I release em when I'm up in the zone [03:09.96]Fortune favors the brave and press on is the motto [03:12.66]Cast shadows on the sun with my bravado [03:15.19]To my freedom fighters and the graffiti writers [03:17.93]And the people like us come forward [03:20.21]And to the torch carriers speakin Arabic [03:22.73]Ridin on your charriots come forward [03:25.48]To my political prisoners individual listeners [03:28.45]Who feelin this come forward [03:30.75]And to the bone shakers and the home makers [03:33.22]Raisin our own saviors come forward