[00:08.64]If you know me  you know I
[00:10.39]Love my family love my God
[00:12.14]Before I knew either I loved my art
[00:14.13]So I'm married to the pen till death do us part
[00:16.57]Rock hard with all my heart
[00:18.50]College broads call me avant garde
[00:20.56]Probably 'cause I'm all off the chart
[00:22.75]Only thing poppy about me
[00:24.43]Is what my Puerto Rican mami call me when she on me
[00:27.43]And the raw me is all I let y'all see
[00:29.73]I believe I rock it properly
[00:31.63]Obviously a lot of y'all agree
[00:33.92]Remind me  what the f**k can stop Ali
[00:36.42]Only me as far as I can see
[00:38.35]Line 3 of "My Philosophy"
[00:40.27]By BDP  it apply to me
[00:42.39]I'm just the guy to lead a crew
[00:44.70]That means the true people who believe in you
[00:46.75]And hold you down and do what they need to do
[00:48.97]Street Preacher
[00:49.79]Say you don't believe what these people teach
[00:51.91]Well me neither
[00:52.91]He who follows his dream is deemed leader
[00:55.03]The freedom fighter meets the peace keeper
[00:57.09]See me creeping up in the pulpit
[00:59.40]With a full clip fit to speak to the people
[01:01.72]May I suggest you just believe dude
[01:03.65]Everything he speak on  really true
[01:05.78]He's proved he would never mislead you
[01:08.02]Or treat you as nothing less than equal
[01:10.29]That's why they call me Brother Ali  too
[01:12.28]The feeling always seems to bleed through
[01:14.47]No quitting I kill it until the beats through
[01:16.65]No kidding I'm real in everything we do
[01:18.65]Rap beef bullshit so see through
[01:20.64]They don't like the hoops they got to leap through
[01:23.14]So they turn on each other like the weak do
[01:25.33]Your little teeth chew meat  fool me too
[01:27.45]I came here to turn the party out
[01:29.38]Y'all know just what I'm all about
[01:31.24]My crew throw down without a doubt
[01:33.69]We here let me hear you holler out
[01:35.75]I came here to turn the party out
[01:37.81]Y'all know just what I'm all about
[01:39.81]My crew throw down without a doubt
[01:42.05]We here let me hear you holler out
[01:44.11]Rest assured I'm the best to do it in my neck of the woods
[01:46.74]Hell yes I'm good
[01:47.85]You can give me any test and I'll prove it no question
[01:50.35]Let this be a lesson to you
[01:52.16]When a superior send a message through the air waves
[01:54.72]Your way  fool  just accept it
[01:57.43]And consider it a blessing
[01:58.99]I won't rest till the moment they press play
[02:01.30]This jam come down and cave your chest in
[02:03.48]There's a couple more things y'all have to know
[02:05.60]Y'all been violating the rapper code
[02:07.66]Can't just walk around here acting bold
[02:09.60]Got to earn respect to brag and boast
[02:12.10]Skills get you that not swag and clothes
[02:14.03]Chin might get tapped  I crack your nose
[02:16.34]Fall back before y'all collapse
[02:18.09]Me  I'm an artist all a y'all are acts
[02:20.34]That's why my heart bleed all on the track
[02:22.52]Tell me what the f**k's wrong with that
[02:24.57]Y'all foreplaying I'm raw dogging that
[02:26.51]I lead the way 'cause y'all lost the path
[02:28.76]This dialogue is all about the facts
[02:30.69]That's why my stories are hard to match
[02:32.94]Never been afraid at all  follow that
[02:36.00]I came here to turn the party out
[02:37.99]Y'all know just what I'm all about
[02:39.62]My crew throw down without a doubt
[02:41.62]We here let me hear you holler out
[02:43.80]I came here to turn the party out
[02:45.86]Y'all know just what I'm all about
[02:47.98]My crew throw down without a doubt
[02:50.10]We here let me hear you holler out
[02:52.16]Preacher in here this evening
[02:54.03]Let me see your hands if you believe him
[02:56.46]I don't know but I got this feeling
[02:58.55]These people need some healing
[03:00.37]And there just so few real ones
[03:02.61]I got just what you're seeking
[03:04.63]That giant can't keep sleeping
[03:06.67]Wake up and touch that freedom