Brother Ali - The Travelers

[MaJiK75]

I actually uploaded this song to show in my history class because it was brand new at that point and wasn't on YouTube! Everyone loved it, including the teacher... if you're in a high school history class I recommend showing this in class!

[aanthonyslipknot]

this is a pretty fucking sick song

[DopeDTV]

I'm a 22 year old rapper from Canada and I uploaded my first 2 tracks ever. I ain't begging you to come check it out, just do if you want. Thanks.

Dope D

[mamaaint]

ha! lebron just travelled



[kizzatta]

power to the ali!

[artismineful]

words of plain out right out there in ur face truth.

[FTWbarcelona]

mind = BLOWN

[RustyGunsM10]

brother ali is a fat white guy lol

[MrHollinsworth]

@RustyGunsM10 isnt it pristine how he spit at sixteen? clean words don't describe the shit that he's seen

[gatorboy124]

@RustyGunsM10 yeah so in my eyes hes a damn good singer if him being a fat white guy that sings about good stuff borthers you go back and listen to your crap rap this is true rap not that lil wayne faggot

[RustyGunsM10]

@gatorboy124 suck a dick you cock gobbling queer, my post was a observation i jam brother ali but im not his fuckin little gatorboy slave like your obviously trying to be faggot.

lil wayne waitin for ya next ,ya fuckin toss around

[gatorboy124]

@RustyGunsM10 hahahah umad? little man

[gatorboy124]

@RustyGunsM10 i like how you resort to calling me names and cursing you made a stupid ass comment and you didn't expect a reply who said i was his slave you sir need to calm down

[RustyGunsM10]

@gatorboy124 ill kill you and piss on your corpse

[gatorboy124]

@RustyGunsM10 lolcomeatmebro

[mamaaint]

@RustyGunsM10 but have you heard him rhyme though :p ?

[RustyGunsM10]

@mamaaint oh yea he jams

[VishousV]

godly

[trentlikestoski]

damn, this song gave me mad chills

[thatguy220711]

respect to the ali.

[BlackBoxThirst333]

Such a perfect song & perfect beat.

[CouchPotato0608]

fucking hell, this song makes me freeze at my computer screen

[mccontraband]

brother ali is one bad ass motherfucker!!!!

[DrUnderground01]

thank god for underground.. or we'd have to be stuck listening to that mainstream shit.

[Maliceyee]

DAMN this is good!!

[MECKeyes]

I listened to this in history class. Great song!

[Alilalialju]

god bless rhymesayers and ali

[CapnMoffitt]

Jesus christ, the fans of this guy are some of the most pretentious fucks i have ever seen...

[carpju14]

@CapnMoffitt *passionate

[BlackBoxThirst333]

Powerful.

[PandaMakers]

4 People are really, really, really, really, really, really racist.

[SkylarrL]

Brother Ali.... you killed this. completely. such an emotional track.. i just.. i can't even. this song is perfect.

[UtterlyUninspired]

@SkylarrL Totally, totally agreed. This song is just.. WOW. Seriously. On every level. Best Brother Ali song ever.

[Militia1993]

eh.. music is based upon your own interpretation of it.. shut the fuck up. this could be bad or good.

[ThePazilya]

people always say something like "4 people have no ears", but here i'm serious, what is wrong with the people who disliked this? I think anyone, with any taste of music must agree that this is a good song. I think this is one of the worlds greatest songs and artists.

[AlexanderMahan]

What's the sample from?

[Godfadr]

"I'm desperate to find my place Emptiness lies behind my face Flowers only die in a vase A heart only dies encased in a lie we call race I hear the song but I can't sing along Something's really wrong I can't put my finger on Terrified to admit it's wrong Cause I'm hiding in the ruins of a legacy that still lives on Our identity is hinged upon the miserable myth we've been taught since we're born Until we mend what was torn The debt of a sin lingers long after the vicitim's moans" masterpiece!

[TheSoulger]

today blacks now have some white in them due to those times

[theseus45]

@TheSoulger Listen again. One of the important messages from this song is that as long as you accept the "lie we call race," you help promote race-based systems. Stop thinking in terms of race and you start being free.

[caucasianjake]

2 people don't know real music

[UKLH760]

this is probably one of the dopest songs ever! and its not all about bullshit like getting hoes and slapping bitches and what not!

[kyoukilis20]

watch?v=oG7UzPMPj-k

best ali song

[brumster01]

music like this makes me annoyed,why can't i hear this when i flick the radio on? why can't i go into my local Music store and buy the album(in the uk),why do i have to do it online all the time and wait a week before it gets at my house i know i could download it from itunes,but i like to collect my albums with the case and everything, this to me should be getting the awards that the artists we see today are getting.

[dave0338]

Where's the love button?

[SpiritofBoulder]

Ive been looking through the comments and found that

[MrSlimShadyBaby420]

Story of my parents' grandparents life

[95Pine]

Mr. Ali knows no boundaries. Not race, not gender, not religion. What I love about his songs is there is such a powerful concept behind each and every one of them and they really make you think. When it comes down to it that's what music should be about, not how to dougie.

[zimgir5000]

goin to see this dude tonight for a big bash new years ever party! so stoked

[TheMeisjje]

He is so sick!!

I LOVE THIS SONG <3.

[malikstaysfreash]

amazing song

[pletta17]

Such a deep song, beautiful and sad.

[Bienvenau]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[Moufwash]

He broke like 600 pages of Roots down into a single verse, and understanding is still there. Simply amazing in any idiom, let only hip-hop, Ali is a true artist.

[kpchawaii]

Favorite rapper of all time hands down. I wonder sometimes if Ali realizes how deep his lyrics really are. Seems everytime I listen to his music I find new messages, metaphors, and meanings in everything he says. Never ceases to inspire. This is real fuckin hip hop. Those sold out worthless fagets on the radio these days should learn a thing or two from artists like this.

[megamo234]

great song, goin to see him tonight :D cant wait

[SubwayZombie]

@megamo234 How was the show man?

[ToeInspector]

Fire

[ToroToker]

brother ali is one of the very few rappers who truly deserves to be called an artist. The mans a poet.

[blueberryyumyumish]

Brother ali motherafuckas

[Chong8223]

this song is bad

[smithjohn134]

I usually despise rap because of the shit i hear lil wayne and snoop dogg spew out on the radio, but brother ali is the only rapper i have ever liked because his music means something

[Oquatix]

my history teacher played this song in class lol

[intoxsik]

@Oquatix You've got a badass History teacher.

[souloh77]

Deeeeeeeeeaaaaaaammm.  King Ali

[Zachdudeio2]

hell yeah

[samteha]

Deaaam,, my life story in 5mins!!!!

[SaxonBeats]

This my shit right here!!

[krapchonweezy]

This song is in a mike hornbeck edit. Sick beat.

[staremisie]

dammmmn x2 . Amazing song

[Connorkrice]

this is his best song ever

[wiNUtS]

This is real, the truth all in a song.

[ZombieRabite]

Wow, these lyrics are strong. The words are a brilliant masterpiece alone, on top of the music.

I love that the first verse is the perspective of the abused and enslaved, and the second verse is the perspective of slave owners.

Obviously slaves got the worst of it, but the message here isn't just about their persecution.

Slave owner's brutality destroyed their own humanity along with their slave's.

And today, we're still victims of the inherited lie that race makes us different.

[ZombieRabite]

I'm not sure it was his intention, but I think

"You've got to save my soul

Put me back together make me whole"

is talking about humanity: How dividing people by races has fractured humans into groups that we see as different.

"Put me back together make me whole"

means seeing all humans as one group. No different.

Because if you're the same as me, then I can love you as I love myself. Why would I hurt myself?

Breaking people apart by differences is the first step to hurting others.

[TheIMM15]

The way I took it is that he is talking about how the white people took blacks as slaves and then blacks just wanting to be treated equal. I do agree that treating people different because they are different is the first step to hurting others; coming from someone who has been treated differently her entire life because of a mental disability and is still smarter then most people in my grade and and has gone through hell in life. My opinion may have no meaning at all though.

Izzy 12, MN

[janitorsam333]

@ZombieRabite

Thanks dude cause i couldn't figure that out on my own, thanks for sounding smart while stating the complete obvious...

[ZombieRabite]

@janitorsam333 No problem, man. Welcome to the internet.

[o0debs]

@ZombieRabite its beautiful really how brother ali can do that many rappers wouldnt give you two perspectives

[dannyofzo]

sorry wrong person to put a thumbs down! it was the reaction on the dumbas chong@o0debs

[dannyofzo]

sorry wrong reaction to put a thumbs down! it was the reaction on the dumbas chong@o0debs

[o0debs]

@dannyofzo haha what i dont get it

[deathbygreek]

@ZombieRabite deeep. So true.

[BCmountainDriver]

@ZombieRabite The second verse seems to be from the perspective of a descendant of a slave master rather than the slave master themselves.

[Moufwash]

@ZombieRabite

first verse is for all purposes the book Roots.

[jewses]

@ZombieRabite agreed, and on top of that, i reckon it's fuckin TOPS to see an artist considering and expressing views from both sides of the story. so many ignorant people out there just talk shit without thinking about the other persons position or opinion. keep it up Ali you fuckin genius

[ToroToker]

@ZombieRabite That is not a lie, clearly different races have different physical features, cultures, and histories among other things, the problem("lie") is that people think these differences are something that makes one race better than the other. But unfortunately i don't think that will ever change, people always look for something to fight or compete over.

[SkylarrL]

@ToroToker agreed 100% man... nice username by the way toro tubes are sick

[kannabiz420]

@ZombieRabite awesome insight.

[Sagefrakrobatik]

@ZombieRabite Dude you have no idea lol. reading James Baldwin FIre Next Time and I came across this passage: "THere is no Reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you....You must accept them and accept them with love...TRAPPED IN A HISTORY WHICH THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND UNTIL THEY UNDERSTAND IT, THEY CANNOT BE RELEASED FROM IT."

[vinceez]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

[3DSpirit]

Thank God you know the funk!

[reneluna96]

i like the beat to it and the word to it

[n0s1r]

First Verse - The Middle Passage and Slavery, mostly about the mental controls and brutality of Willy Lynch tactics.

Second Verse - How racism still affects us today. ALL OF US. How it is impressed on us, ALL OF US, by society from an early age. And how race is a bullshit concept that is ingrained on us, ALL OF US, at an early age, by society in general.

[lordfridge2]

This best album so far. Love it!

[bklynbam1978]

wow.. the beat is funky as hell, but it's also a vivid, chilling, brilliantly told depiction of the middle passage and slavery.. it's like you want to dance and cry at the same time.. life's like that..

[LaughingD03]

dammmmn.

[fiend4hiphop]

and madvillian have to agree with you on "curls" madlib killed it...just wish it was a little longer..he shoula rocked t hat beat for twice as long..."villian get the money like curls..just tryna get a nut like squirrels in this mad world"

[fiend4hiphop]

who else could flow about the slave trade and do it so fucking well....and the beat stimulates the senses!!! he played this live at the fresh air tour..was amazing..."if humanity is one then we all get burned when its hell that were traveling through.... youve got to save my soul...put me back together make me whole"

[bongrippinboy]

this is an amazing song!!! deep lyrics that give me goose bumps everytime,, makes ya think of how good we have it and how fucked up the slave trade was,, no human should go through that,, Ali is the SHIT!!!

[MShepherd88]

This beat blows my mind...so good (Ali of course does a good job too).

By the way, I'm pretty sure those are marimbas, not steel drums (no offense)

[SugarFreeRecordsUK]

Hell yeah those steel drums are ill

[madvillain6184]

DAMN! nice steel drum beat, but my favorite is still "Curls" by Madlib. Ant brought the house on this one tho!

[GoldenArms96]

and what do you think the governemt is? "commercial interests and advertisers" there all about the dollar just as much as the fucks who promote the faggot bitch shit on the radio. and the FCC is a governemt organization. so yes, the government is just as much a part of it as the corporations directly involed with faggot bitch shit on the radio.

[hackmaster121]

conspiracy theories much

[GoldenArms96]

really? cause it makes so much sense that our government looks out for us. it makes sense that they care about anything else besides themselves and their money. if you stop listening to the shit they feed you and watch them, actions speak louder than words. they would kill a baby to make a buck. and they do.

[bongrippinboy]

its about the slave trad you wich was not a fuckin conspricay theory,,"this is actually true now stop and imagine thats you"

[hackmaster121]

dude i know... i was responding to goldenarms who was talking about modern today shit.

[bongrippinboy]

yea my bad dog

[R1234567809]

ha true shit holmes

[4tja]

can't you express yourself without saying "faggot"?

[GoldenArms96]

this type of shit doesnt get radio play cause the government controls the radio. Ali is one of the greatest. but there is a sea of artists who's voices wont be heard while faggot ass bitches like lil wayne and solja boy are on the radio all day. "these puppet rappers playin the piper for they masta, a sea of material beings is what they afta." -TRUTH

[blackpatentleather]

no, not so much the government, more like commercial interests and advertisers

[hackmaster121]

DOPE

[jfico89]

What an amazing album

[bbell64591]

it truly is i cant believe that this hasnt hit the radios yet

[MrWannaBfree]

Too good. The whole album is amazing, buy it, make sure he makes more!

"So if humanity is one then we all get burned when its hell that we're travelling through"

[buckr02]

Man, you can really feel the emotion.. that's hard to find.

[DB1994DB]

This is the kind of Hip-Hop that people should be listeing to not that Soulja Boy and Lil Wayne bullshit.

Much respect Ali. 5/5*

[mrbinks456]

This song is on a different level. All music should be like this. So much pain emotion passion, music must send a positive uplifting message or one with oppression and what needs to change. Music is all about emotion and expressing yourself. even King David (david and goliath) wrote psalms to God expressing his joy or sorrows, i wish i could have heard him sing those songs

[antec06]

That's what sets Ali aside from the rest. He delivers with emotion like no other. Plenty of artists have great lyrics - it's not always what you say, but how you say it. Ali doesn't stick to one cadence or emotion - he changes on every track which keeps everything fresh and makes his albums something you really never grow tired of. He runs the gammit of emotional delivery - pain, joy, disdain, indifference even, etc. Ali has become my favorite emcee of all time. He's taking it to a new level.

[newsjunkie23]

This song is dope...period.

[boface187]

Straight up jungle beat or some shit.

Fuckin awesome!!

[thatwazdope16]

"You only taste Joy,When Babies are Born/ which Became an Occasion to Mourn"---->UGh!!! Too Sick.

[oldentymes]

Wow the beat sounds sooo shitty on youtube/my comp.. for everbody that thinks this beat is sick.. bump it on somethin with some real bass.. it's too nice on clear speakers

[Blarbling]

Man I know how you feel. I only have two 10 inch subs in the trunk with the bass not even turned up all the way and it bumps like crazy. But on YouTube it doesn't sound near as good.

[ILLER121]

this beat tickles my brain

[1309mw]

great comment...

[unknownkilla14]

i aint gone lie. i always liked ali.. just never got fully into most of his songs. but this album is.. wow. got to buy it.

[robdibbles]

Damn, great topic 4 a trippy ass beat.

[atmostfere]

this beat is completely off the hook. its insane! no matter what type of music your into you gotta respect this song big time. Ant does work!

[flatpockets]

Sick instrumental!!!

[JoelVmay27th]

Damn, You gotta give it up to Ant on this one... Hot damn! This on some other ish right here. I give Ali a lot of props too though. I'm sure pickin' a topic for this instrumental wasn't as easy as it seems. Much respect!

[1309mw]

ant showed out on this cd for sure. sick...

[imhh1]

genuis beat this goes in my top 5 for sure

[jglenellen]

Hey Ant,if you're listening,this is one of the most insane beats I have ever heard in my life,complete and total insanity,my friend

[spydr1313]

what a beat..