Brother Ali on Jake One's White Van Music

[spillamen1]

i still bump like it just came out White Van Music

[OzBoomBap86]

word this guy dope !!



[SURtifiediLL]

dope guy

[DBoYAcExX]

the M.O.P. song tho?!

[aeoner81]

Haha. They get to be rich and famous, and we get you!

[leoandpisces]

HIP HOP GOT NO COLOR

[ABTheBeatmaker]

one of the best albums of 2008. and i agree with ali on the mainstream thing.

[KungFatty]

nice hat , whens the sell out party ?

[akmusicpage]

saw Brother Ali perform live In New York a year ago, he killed it, homie is the truth

[jap340]

what that MOP joint he has playin?

[natefranklin]

he's cooo as fuck

[conmanduck]

I heard he is blind I dont thinks so now

[sopl99]

such a pimp

[Revo1]

lol @ "get in the van" as the tag line. hilarious! but a great album.

[didafan08]

who cares about color Brother ali and jake one and everyone from rhymesayer are DOP3

[suckmybass]

he so black yo

[DamitDre]

i feel what hes sayin tho speakin some real words

[GoldGraffitiKing]

funny how people and hip hop has changed, remember the times when u could spit a rhyme and whether your white or black u could get respect? but now adays, IF your white and have blonde hair and blue eyes u cant get respect. fucking hip hop has changed,

[LeoGMaster]

if you all would listen to brother ali closely you would not talk about race in general you fools...sorry but it is like it is

[wordandcharacter]

Why the f*ck does everybody care what race Brother Ali is? Regard him for what he is, and that would be a great musician.

[DiggiDelFu]

Haha jake one is wack???????? ^^ wtf

who's better

[suckmybass]

He's Black and you're color blind. So live with that and stop hating.

[suckmybass]

Hes clearly Black

[checkabreak]

that i'm saying Ali is the whites black white gray light black white guy i know :) he flows

[megaman7430]

no brother ali was born in madison wi to white parents he is just an albino google him no need to argue...

[mobspeak]

50 cent is BS, but bro you is one real dude.. one word QUALITY.. peace BRO!

[davesmontecarlo]

hahahahaha

[ViVACiOUSx]

Everybody should just shut the fuck up about his race and how he is. He's an amazing guy and none of you sitting here on Youtube are gonna ever gonna get close to his level.

[dragonspitjones]

Now Jake one, on the other hand, is a straight up white dude and his beats got sooooouuuul!

[PancakeRecipes]

why does he sound like a black dude???? He's Caucasian I thought.

[dragonspitjones]

HES ALBINO!!!!! his parents are black and he is black but he was born without the coloration. That's what happens with albinos. It's not that serious. The dude is nice with the pen and he can spit. Why does everything have to be about race?

[PancakeRecipes]

His parents are not black moron. LOL His parents are white. It is people like you spread ridiculous rumors on the interwebs about shit you obviously have no clue about. Dude is from Minnesota....nuff said.

[dragonspitjones]

Damn Shrek, you cut me real deep just now. EVERYONE!!!!!!!MY BAD>>>>>>>BROTHER ALI IS WHITE AND SO ARE HIS PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!

[PancakeRecipes]

lol no sweat man. Sorry I said moron I was a little drunk when I commented. It was a honest mistake. Keep up.

[mrcheereo]

jesus, why does everything with brotha ali on it have race comments. Who gives a fuck! FUCK! Ur right man!

[dabomb1357]

because you're wrong, hes white

[COMPTONCRIPNIGGA]

hes an albino with black parents.

[dabomb1357]

NO HES NOT YOU IDIOT.

"So when they got me in an interview and asked me what race I was, I didnt know what to say. You can look at me and tell Im not Black so, what is the question really? What are you implying? I didnt answer them and they decided I must be black. Brother Ali, March 20, 2007

[COMPTONCRIPNIGGA]

HE IS BLACK

but hes albino you fucking retard

dont quote me on shit faggot.

[dabomb1357]

He's a caucasian (white) albino. I wasn't quoting you dumabss, I was quoting BROTHER ALI. Yes, thats right Brother Ali said he's white. How much more convincing do you need, you think hes confused abous his own race?

[COMPTONCRIPNIGGA]

suck my left nut fucking jiggaboo ass peice of shit

served.

[dabomb1357]

rofl, could you make yourself look any more retarded?

[PraPHunk]

I love you Brother Ali.

You speak the truth always.

[dragonspitjones]

I thought the dude was albino.

[ProblyNotYurNmba1Fan]

he is

[KRich206]

When writers first asked him if he was black he refused to answer the question. later he said it was a mistake I'll give him that, but how are you going to tell me he is the truth when he couldn't even admit he is white? obviously he has tons of white guilt and self hate issues. hopefully he is working through them. I wish nothing but good things for Jason Newman, but enough with the false prophets for profits.

[ZohanJr]

but the thing with the race issue was that, he felt that he was emotionally black b/c he was pretty much raised by them and adopted theyre life style, and he felt the african american community accepted him, but he still coulda answered the question, its 2009, values have changed

[newjersey02]

Values have not changed. Actually yes they are, We are livin on the edge.

[PancakeRecipes]

LOL "emotionally black"....god I hope that is a joke.

[ZohanJr]

he's feels like hes truly black, ya dick

[PancakeRecipes]

how can a white dude "feel" black? LOLOLOL

[ZohanJr]

b/c hes been around them his whole life, and he took up their culture, so he feels black

[PHANTASTIKMUSIK]

I was sleeping on this one...got it today! If you dont have it, go get it!

[Davemo69]

wow this dude speaks alot of sence i can relate to that and i like how he dont diss on the mainstream, im still to take to brother ali like ive took to other my fave at the moment and to this day are eminem dilla DOOM dre lupe gza nas kweli mos common monch. but maybe one day ali gets added to the mix

[claptonman]

"You gon' clickety click and get your head split

What the hell you look like on a message board

Discussing whether or not the brother is hard core

I ain't got to prove to any of you

that anything I ever said was is the truth but I'm ready to do it"

[WuTangSword05]

real shit right here

i got mad respect for brother ali

that joint on jake's album was hot!

[jbs4life97]

Brother Ali is fucking great, Underground for life I'm sorry. Fuck mainstream, but only T-Pain bullshit mainstream. It's garbage radio filler.

[Mister9mm]

fuckin love ya man

[81toinfinity]

yo "Brother Ali" is one of the most poetical rappers thats came up in the last 10 years, he is a pure truth spoken person & you can hear it in his rhymes,dude is what we need to see more in hip hop to keep it alive, much respect Ali. p.s cop that "Jake One " album shit dope....

[allinthegame90]

damn. ali just really expressed all of my thoughts more eloquently than anybody else ever has.

[risingprmc]

word?? then why the fuck is his lil brother mulatto like, that dude has black in him, he just albino

[Zari7000]

OK IT IS HIP-HOP.

[Zari7000]

ooo.. my mistake.

[Zari7000]

Why are these white boys trying to be black? Don't they have a culture?

[leonmurphy78]

Brother Ali is a black albino.

[JustChillin07]

no caucasion albino and who the fuck cares

[rizwan182]

He's a white albino actually quoted as saying that he may have a white family but was "raised by a black community" Zari7000, skin color doesn't matter, expressing his soul through music is what he's doing.

[rlballa420]

@rizwan182 yeah he is black as fuck! thats Bro Ali and he albino but dope as fuck!!

[BIGDO13]

no he's not dummy....

[movado18]

SO blacks have a "culture" Its called being musically inclined. They have an ear for sound. They know how to speak in a tongue that most understand. When you're raised in certain society, you learn to adapt and overcome. Walk a mile in Brother Ali's shoes, see what he has seen. Now STFU, get some hooked on phonics, and read a little. You might learn what culture really means!!!

[KRich206]

Tell Brother Ali to walk in OUR shoes. He could be from the hardest hood in America but when the Cops show up he looks like a cracker and gets different treatment, EASY! And he is NOT black albino, wikipedia son! I seen crazier shit in my diaper days than he has as a grown man.

[Brotha633]

and thats his fault?...do people need to go through a struggle to be "hip hop"?..

[brianrob1989]

Um, yeah! That's what hip hop is and that's how it was created...off of a struggle. You can't separate that from hip hop. I can take a guess and say that you're one of those people who consider the people of Anticon to be "real" hip hop.

[Nyder]

I hate niggas like you who think they've got it the hardest in the fucking world. Take your ass to Cambodia and look at the impoverished people over there that I've met, spoken to, and connected with first hand before you act like an elitist racist little bitch.

There's other kinds of struggle. Maybe he was ostracized for being albino. Maybe he was outcasted because of his views. Maybe he struggled through disease and poverty. The whole world ain't stereotypes motherfucker grow the fuck up.

[brianrob1989]

LMAO! What the fuck are you talking about?

[boomboomcroome]

haha....

"Wikipedia son!"

so hard...

[KRich206]

since when did ignorance become synonymous with hard? So if somebody does research on another individual they are "soft"? I teach regularly in jails, rehab centers and schools (in the real hood, not the rap hood) and nobody out here knows who the fuck brother ali is, because his music is of little or no relevance to those of us who are really going through it. NO white person can ever speak on the struggle of black/brown people.

[boomboomcroome]

I was talking about you saying "wikipedia son!" and how bad ass it sounded. Of course us whites won't ever understand the shit we have and still put blacks through, it doesn't mean we can't try.

[newjersey02]

Yes, We can understand. Just please, Don't hate us whites ;)

[Nyder]

Man, those retards in jails, rehab centers, and schools don't know who brother ali is because all they get is radio and who controls the radio is the man. Same thing with rich white kids. Has nothing to do with connecting to the music.

Why only white people? Why do you specifically point out white people? You ignorant motherfucker I'm a white first generation American with Icelandic and Celtic blood my people have either been isolated from or oppressed by the same shit you have been.

[12112vw]

fuckin shut up all ive seen is Nyder, Fuck Nyder, dumb fuck.

[Nyder]

No war but class war keep up your counterrevolutionary shit and find yourself in front of a firing squad you small-world living racist fuck. The world don't revolve around you and neither does hip hop. If I can't love what black people gave me than you can't love the radio you hear hip hop on, and that's the fucking truth.

[12112vw]

Stupid ass bitch.

[kaybronson100]

walk in your shoes? oh you mean like the presidents loafers? kill that noise.

[JustChillin07]

his culture is not black, his culture is hip-hop

[KRich206]

Hip-Hop IS black culture that is respected universally. I fucking hate how people dismiss race out of ignorance. I bet you think Rock music was started by Elvis?

[ZohanJr]

rock music was actually started by a black man

[KRich206]

exactly

[newjersey02]

Rock music was not, The music industry knew Caucasians across the globe understood violins, pianos had a much warmer feel then some one singing. They then had to put the lower class with the new age music which was mostly blacks. They then took ELVIS PRESLEY and put him in to get the white folks attention.

[Nyder]

It's just music that originated from black people. Black immigrants, even. The first skinheads were working class brits who worked on the docks with Jamaicans and they shared a reggae culture. Hip-Hop is American music. Real people approach it with their own perspective and they don't bite other cultures, they merely share a point of view and taste in music. Your problem is that you have no individuality so you're obsessed with your own blackness no one gives a fuck nigga it's 2010 act like it.

[djfakt]

@JustChillin07 YEAH! You say it, white man!

[BIGDO13]

damn, that's crazy that those early joints that Ali and Jake did didn't pan out....

[eotm03]

Nice video. I used to work at Macy's brookdale MN. Brother Ali used to come in all the time and buy clothes. I always wanted to say something but I know some celebrities just want to be left alone when they are out and about with there family.

[irish1234567891011]

But we get you, HELL YEAH

[johnnyboldt]

Can anyone make out anything on that calendar in the background? :P

[punchNathan]

brother ali - shadows on the undisputed champion bowl hat

[KANEANITE708]

I like his message in terms of rap.

He's a hell of a musician and a smart man.

Also..I lit up like a christmas tree at the thought of a new MF Doom track.

Doom...Ali....what more could you ask for?

[keyonte0]

You guys would be a lot more famous if you got your albums in the stores more often. I can't buy these online... wtf... AWESOME AUDIO PREVIEWS!!!

[Rider222]

AWESOME, THANKS.

[KelTheGroovyHuman]

yoo, since ali told me to get it, i'mma get it. ya word has great value with me.

[useyouforfood]

I'll definitely check this album out.

[aerodave88]

Ali is God...

Hip hop aint dead...

[coldrockdaspot]

The album is dope, I find it odd that Brother Ali didn't mention that he too is on the album.

[Mmunchies]

ali is humble man. One of my fav rappers.

Im getting this album

[y3k23k]

it's because he's so modest and a great inspirational man.

[billyfuckenbob]

i'm sure that this CD will be dope.

as well i'm glad that you do not forget mainstream (i.e. Busta, 50 etc.), this is all respectful, but the most i worry about that those mainstream guys do not forget about you. i mean that feat on such a CD is not that attitude you deserve guys. you guys deserve much more than that. but i see that you, guys from RS, and underground scene at all are higher than that - and that scores my respect to you.

Peace, Rhymesayers.

Peace, Brother.

Love Ya.

[ghostdog221]

I want it, badly, plus I want those Instrums.

But it's good that you mention that hip hop is not segmented, people need to hear that.

[powderedwaterpudding]

Best rapper alive... ask about him!

[KRich206]

It's cool to big up Brother Ali. But best rapper alive? Gimme a fucking break

[dagster11]

Yeah i don't Know about Best rapper alive...but in my opinion he is one of the best.

[jolsonator]

i agree

[thibodrl]

who's the best than?

[KRich206]

Hard to say lately, cause a lot of the cats I'm feeling have yet to show me a classic album but they are truly better MC's than this guy. A la Royce 5'9 Crooked I Saigon. But honestly as far as mixtape/album I'd have to say Lupe takes the cake.

he said "... you can't back out, there's no back doors, like porsche/ of course, it's the boss/ Tony Danza of Stanza the Springstein of 16's/ it's nothing sweet, it's Lupe/ I am white people's Kool-Aid, it's mean/"

[Nyder]

Dude that shit's whack it rhymes but it's not saying anything that matters. Lame overused metaphors that aren't even solid. Tony Danza of Stanza? SERIOUSLY? What the fuck is Danza even that great at? It's like he's calling himself half-assed and famous.

You're fucking stupid you don't even pay attention to the words they have to real meaning to be worth dick you know. *sigh* Most heads just hear rhymes and bop they heads though...

[KRich206]

Obviously you a 90's baby nigga. Tony Danza was the star of the 80's sitcom "the boss". Bruce Springstein is an american musician famous for his hit "The Boss" so when Lupe says "it's the boss, tony danza of stanzas, springstein of 16's" he's referring to himself as the boss by comparing two well known but disconnected pop culture references. If you couldn't comprehend that the first listen through then eat a dick wit aids on the tip and keep my name out your lips b grade nigga.

[12112vw]

Blow me no one cares.

[biditch210]

Brother Ali stay bringin the truth

[robrush]

hell yeah... i'm so glad you made the point to talk about listening to all kinds of hip hop.. heavy d to PE to NWA... that's some real shit. big ups ali.

[hanaaB]

nice 1 akhi ali....circumvent hypocritical major labels...buy jake one....support real hiphop.....

[Clerkz]

Cant wait for this album! It seems great.

[JacobBroesder]

I"m getting it

[mherriges]

This is a great album! Make sure to get it on October 7!

[JJJJennings]

Everyone should buy it. From what I've heard, it sounds great.

[dallasINtokyo]

nice vid, well said, Brother

[jakemoney82]

Pick up the album next Tuesday!  10.7.08!