Stop The Press-Brother Ali

[ti:Stop The Press] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Mourning In America And Dreami] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Stop The Press - Brother Ali [00:02.11]Another one of them long a** breaks [00:03.64] [00:05.83]Damn Brother Ali where the hell you been [00:07.83] [00:08.64]What you disappear [00:09.70]Stop the presses give me couple seconds [00:12.32]Let tell my friends what's up with big brethren [00:14.88]New year new beard a new record [00:17.12]Made a few adjustments I want to discuss it [00:19.68]In a life of pain and sadness [00:21.81]Never would've guessed that a taste of success [00:24.24]Would've been the first time I ever got depressed [00:26.55]I know I'm blessed I just couldn't adjust [00:29.03]In life all I ever knew how to do is fight [00:31.46]Scrapped on the playground fighting for the mic [00:33.77]Trying to build a life with an insane wife [00:36.08]Fighting for a little bit of time in the light [00:38.58]Then I got a daughter a car and house [00:40.90]No one left to fight with but myself [00:42.74] [00:43.36]Gained a lot of weight wasn't thinking about my health [00:46.17]Maybe the music I'm making could help [00:48.10]I can't drive 'cause this albino sh*t [00:50.60]Told you I was legally blind that's legit [00:53.09]I ain't want Ant to have to come scoop the kid [00:55.65]So I bought a crib a couple blocks from his [00:58.02]That's the greatest friend I ever had [01:00.21]Like a brother to me a borderline dad [01:02.64]Maybe making a record will get me on track [01:05.01]Help fix whatever's wrong with my head [01:07.57]I jumped back in the basement at once [01:09.77]Made the album Us in a couple of months [01:12.01]But I can't lie to y'all I felt lost [01:14.70]Energy I brought might've been a bit off [01:16.64] [01:17.32]Couple great moments though of course [01:19.32]Babygirl Puppy Love and The Travelers [01:21.84]I toured two years off that album [01:24.46]Was on the road ten months out of one of them [01:26.77]Did the globe with my brother BK [01:29.20]My life coach slash DJ [01:31.45]Literally been with me since day one [01:33.69]Had a lot of hard times had a lot of fun [01:36.19]Long story short he got hell of a wife [01:38.57]Catastrophe damn near ended her life [01:40.99]Brought our wifeys out to Hawaii [01:43.24]These f**kers got pregnant on Waikiki [01:45.38] [01:46.06]He said "I need to talk to you Ali [01:48.12]This is what you were born to do but not me" [01:50.43]So after Soundset two thousand and ten [01:52.74]Say goodbye to my Deejay but not my friend [01:55.49]My career ain't stop it just grew [01:57.73]I rock(ed) the bells and Glastonbury too [02:00.23]Close enough to smell Beyonce's perfume [02:02.66]But it just ain't the same without dude [02:05.22]Couldn't slow me down no lord [02:07.34]Stayed on the planes and the busses and cars [02:09.71]Brought a young DJ into the squad [02:11.96]Sucker quit on me cause I toured too hard “Wahhhh” [02:15.20]On to the next one [02:17.39]Then me and Ant had trouble connecting [02:19.44]If I was here then he was always there [02:21.69]Touring or recording with Atmosphere [02:24.18]What the hell's goin on with my career [02:26.56]Within a year my team disappeared [02:28.93]Got a phone call on the 4th of July [02:31.36]My dad died he committed suicide [02:33.29] [02:34.24]Sh*t should've been there for him [02:36.24]Had to fly home from Europe to bury him [02:38.55] [02:39.37]I'm sorry I need a minute [02:40.81] [02:41.49]Bismillah Alright listen [02:44.18]Trying to hold this marriage together [02:45.79]But me and my baby barely see each other [02:48.29]I'm in France with the fans taking pictures [02:50.60]She's with the kids making dinner doing dishes [02:53.14]She ain't got to worry bout me screwing other [02:55.63]But that ain't enough to make a woman feel precious [02:58.26]If we don't start to intersecting [03:00.32]We got no choice but grow in different directions -Damn [03:03.12] [03:03.74]I got that phone call again [03:05.24] [03:05.80]You know the kind you never want to get [03:07.80]Mikey's mom couldn't get a hold of him [03:10.42]And found him dead in his apartment [03:12.29] [03:13.04]Just drowning in tears [03:14.91]Probably won't get over that in all my years [03:17.16] [03:17.91]I'll remember forever [03:19.72]A day later boarded a plane to Mecca [03:21.59] [03:22.15]And the next month changed my life [03:24.33]Listening to God in the holy sites [03:26.71]Inklings I had all my life [03:28.95]Suddenly presented themselves in plain sight [03:31.13] [03:31.70]Any doubts I had about the mic [03:34.01]And whether or not what I write is right [03:36.25]Fell out of sight like the tears on the floor [03:38.56]Now I'm going harder than I ever did before [03:41.24]Got a couple of beat tapes from Jake [03:43.55]Genuine dude and his music is great [03:45.99]I told Zach to hold my tour dates [03:48.23]Roll the tape I got something to say [03:49.69] [03:54.00]So I'm gonna go make this album [03:55.50] [03:56.49]Let me start it off right though [03:57.68] [03:58.43]Lyrics by 卟 断 努 力