Pen To Paper-Brother Ali/Amir Sulaiman

[ti:Pen To Paper] [ar:Brother Ali/Amir Sulaiman] [al:All The Beauty In This Whole Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pen To Paper (动笔) - Brother Ali/Amir Sulaiman [00:00.21]I am not beautiful I am an elegant beast [00:03.87] [00:05.04]A well-mannered monster a charming barbarian [00:07.91] [00:09.34]I will pillage your heart with language so lavishly violent [00:12.63]You will curse me for coming and curse me for going [00:14.70] [00:16.00]Your crying and your moaning will share the same sound [00:18.48] [00:47.60]Put pen to paper the first time when I was barely eight or [00:50.97]Maybe nine that was the late eighties Reagan time [00:54.11]Put in the freshest tape rewinds wait let me take my time [00:57.59]The entire landscape of that blank page was mine [01:00.52] [01:01.12]Created space to climb inside escape the crazy times [01:04.66]Reshape the climate break it down that was my frame of mind [01:07.47] [01:08.10]Thank the divine great designing this as my sacred shrine [01:11.42]I made myself a place to shine wait let me spray this rhyme [01:15.04]When I was thirteen I met KRS he put me on the stage [01:18.47]Suggested I read up on Malcolm X y'all know the rest [01:21.61]So much pushing down on my chest [01:23.26]Both my folks got laid to rest [01:24.90]Loved ones wishing me all the best [01:26.57]I'm a ball of stress yet I digress [01:28.17] [01:28.79]I've spent my every hopeless dream and my unspoken secret [01:31.96]You hear it floating through your speakers in my old releases [01:34.75] [01:35.65]My fanbase began to grow beneath crowd around me [01:39.01]I never tiptoed 'round here shy I spit it loud and proudly [01:42.49]The u s government profiled me and the sponsors dropped me [01:45.91]Some of my listeners felt a way so they no longer got me [01:49.20]I knew that telling that truth is costly no one alive can stop me [01:52.81]I rolled that flag out on the ground and prostrated my body [01:55.29] [01:56.09]This is more than music to me this is ancestors [01:59.17]Speaking through me at the tomb of Rumi [02:01.75]My mic's a rifle I'm honor bound to fire my weapon truly [02:04.87]Whether they jeer me cheer me boo salute me or just shoot me [02:08.56]Let it be known my whole life I break that cycle set it in stone [02:12.18]I'd still rather be known as a man that stand on my own [02:14.75]Rather than beg at a throne cold [02:16.38]You know I still honor my own code that go down to the bone [02:19.88]We just want to get it on shooting at the devil [02:21.47]With a megaphone till we dead and gone [02:23.01]Boom