[00:00.00]Stop The Press - Brother Ali
[00:02.11]Another one of them long a** breaks
[00:05.83]Damn Brother Ali where the hell you been
[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
[00:43.36]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
[01:17.32]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
[01:46.06]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
[02:34.24]Sh*t should've been there for him
[02:36.24]Had to fly home from Europe to bury him
[02:39.37]I'm sorry I need a minute
[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
[03:03.74]I got that phone call again
[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
[03:13.04]Just drowning in tears
[03:14.91]Probably won't get over that in all my years
[03:17.91]I'll remember forever
[03:19.72]A day later boarded a plane to Mecca
[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
[03:31.70]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
[03:54.00]So I'm gonna go make this album
[03:56.49]Let me start it off right though