Brother Ali Life Sentence
Oh yeah
The flow here is so rare
Won't hear me so bare and focused nowhere
No hood or burrow post golden years
My most sincere quotes -- I unload 'em here
Your local hero don't compare
An' oh yeah don't you dare hold a mirror to me that's
no fair
You ain't gotta do your poker stare over here
Honestly don't care what cards you holdin', dear
Most my heroes don't even compete with me
I'm on my own kinda sucker- free frequency
I got a IQ I refuse to speak beneath
And to lie to you would only cheapen me
Seem to me most these dudes are carpoolin'
One a y'all do something new and then y'all do it
Havin' déjà vu --
They enjoy something jay-z do
And then need a sample that ll say it too
I guess we wasn't tauight the same rules
I was brought up "bitin' is a sin, you gotta pay your
dues"
That's for underground and mainstream too
The blame's on you bitches, shame on you...
Streams roll into the ocean
Rivers roll into the sea
If I can't sing my life
One of y'all might gotta come and bury me
I should only have to tell y'all once
When we come back just to prove it to ya
Never had to do much (and) it's confused
On my particular brand the truth is undisputed
It's a fact-stupid people dig stupid-ass music
And that label shoots seven out of ten humans
I'm cast in "underground movement"
I do exactly what I wanna do
And I'm building one room at a time, damn the blueprint
And I'm doin' just fine in my own mind
Trynna be one of the greatest of all time
If you ain't doin' that then you're wasting your time
I shake the floorboards to the foundation wide
You know nothing about what it takes to shine
Do an about-face and and holler out "Peace, goodbye..."
I'm a star in the evening sky
Got the sun in my hand and the fire in my eyes (oh,
lawd)
Streams roll into the ocean
Rivers roll into the sea
If I cant sing my life
One of y'all might gotta come and bury me
