Brother Ali - Left In The Deck lyrics
rate meLadies and gentlemen on the piano tonight
To my left your right is Jake One
And I am big bad body rocking
Failure is not an option
I’ve been grinding 9 to 5 like Dolly Parton
Art for talking make them lean like oxycotin
Not for nothing but the dream sequence kind of vibrant
No I'm not a prophet nor am I proselytizing
My assignment to take my little light and shine it
They can not define it so they wanna to water it down
Gotta colonize ground and come out afire
Put you on a diet of this honest pious modest
Live wire writer piping loud enough start a riot
Heart of a lion both eyes open wide
Soul in overdrive you duly notified
Bonafide North Side, alma mater
Yeah my momma might had got us out of there
Still though my heat is near
Home base Mosque is there
Took my Shahada there
When I'm out of here
I swear to God I drop a tear
Nothing is new under the sun
And so I'm doing what’s been done
By those who trooped though
And proved it can be won
Truth is that these musicians grew me as their son
So you're a philosopher
My Uzi weighs a ton
The fluid native tongue
The true creative hum drum
Blessed it in that melting pot
The two became as one
Recognize an old soul
With new school influences
Soothing music oozes through him like he blew a kiss
Gin really do exist I submit the proof is this
Truth is the broken heart is harder than the human fist
I'm too committed for that superficial foolishness
Gotta wear the shoe that fits even if its a crucifix
Wallace you are truly missed
Pardon all your human sins
My dourer is you live in the garden and it’s purely bliss
We still bear the fruit of his
Houda that was beauty kissed
Before Gabriel pick that horn and play that tune of his
You won't let the humans live
Let the humans love
Let us never dictate
Who’s below and who is above
Let he who lives without sin cast the first stone
Most high hung up the phone hear the dial tone
Ran up in the liquor store waving the pistol round
Everybody hit the floor everybody hit the ground
Both of them in the zone all about the business now
If they can stick to code they can hit it and get out
Oh so professional cleaner than a basset hound
Dog when his dick is broke
Run it like a give a go
Did it before, just to get him some dough
Stash box getting too low they inching for more
Outside here kicking doors
Twenty inches of snow, fifty bellow
Pistol grip is frigid and cold
Forever they been going through this Rigor more
Getting locked up grandma bring them some dough
Put a house up so they can come oh they oh so grown
Two twin brothers raised by grandmother
One was always running and gunning and cause trouble
The other one suffer cause they look like one another
He wasn't doing nothing
But the fuzz still bust him
He must have grew accustomed
To the boys trying to rush him
One day he had enough and said fuck it
Uh so baby now it's on little brother ride along
One was the brain other the brawn and they twice as strong
They thinking if it's right or it's wrong
One heist the alarm of the ones with the arms
You make a move and act shiesty your gone
He ever pulled a trigger in life, but be warned
He cold as stone and bad to the bone let’s get it on
Uh they started off buying shit trying to have the flyest fits
Rocking all the brightest kicks knocking all the hottest chicks
Driving a shiny whip buy all the drinks
That was the old brothers thing
The younger brother digs the excitement side of it
Trying to out smart a Vic
It was the leader till their grandmother got sick
She needed surgery it hurts to see her
If they don't act first something worse could occur
Might lose a leg, suffer a seizure
Emergency might cover her up with dirt
Can't suffer to hurt put something in her purse
And so they urgently burst into work
We gonna bleed this city, like a thirst our gift is your curse
Back to the hearing now, we don't have a lot of time
Cash drawer clear it out hand over the dollar signs
And feel free to sound the alarm all you want
We already downed the phone and the power lines
And I really doubt you wanna to step out of line
This Gluck nine of mine will make your mind hard to find
Ignorant only sound I want to be hearing
Is the lock on the safe go clickity-cllick
This is a bad feeling isn't it
Yea listen bitch here’s a bag, get to filling it
Lady moved kind of slow like she forgot the code
Younger brother watch the clock
Yo, it's time to go
He ain't leaving out this door with the pot of gold
Lock and load
The old owners down stairs doing invoices
Seen the power go out and he could hear noises
Knew what was taking place
And had a little something of his own waiting
For this situation
He came out bombing this to show them what time it is
The guns are kind of big but one ain't ever fired his
Aim ain't confident plus he got the power kick
Hitting all kind of shit except what the target is
But old papa did just the opposite
Shots just ricocheting listen mister, is it playing?
Kids made it out the spot
But he followed them, non still firing siren's hollering
Police arriving the younger twin dropped just then
The owner hit him in the collar and bodied him
Kemosabe isn't stopping
Continue throwing shots at the cops till the officers slaughter him
Damn, now who’s supposed to tell grandmamma now?
Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!
Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!
Living in a time where life is hate
But you don’t think your sense have been insightful
You just need to quietly admire my desire
Get inspired by a higher form of life or just retire
Is only fire the ingredients inside of you
Would you tie the wrong Mike Tyson to iron?
Meaning you say you would when I only say to iron him?
I knew the verses only do reverses no trying
Sidebar pioneer the scientific dying
Most about environment you save the life with the right click
You can stab me then now he’s been excited to ...
Words colliding you better bring a CD
Hustle and I’m building and I think it’s still quickly
The only beat whimsy you can dress it up quickly
Found adjacent I could break you with my pinky
Then I bought a blow can hear your body slow
But I can look inside your eyes and I can know you have no soul
Lying to yourself from the moment you press go
You ballin on you’re only know for what you own
Chain is gorgeous but you didn’t make it
Balls are flawless but you’re the creator
Closing up but you were born naked
The whole time, my legacy the only thing we take with
Listen are we living through this digital age
Even though you ain’t locked up in no physical case
Still don’t need to see your way all through that instant maze
Put your keep inside a cage
Picture bought a scripture and I flip through every page
Look for some proof to be not the inner vase
Every since sacred declaration been displayed
Everything that I’ve been happening, now the dead have been raised
Used to have a passion to my patronized passion
Intoxicated thought are breaking pages you could have...
You won’t get the...to earn it up like an atom
The first man on the planet that could catch you with an atom
You are living anywhere, living any day
Like it’s a sin there so they couldn’t even tell
In a time when it’s easy top prevail
I skip them and it’s easy to scale
Keep on lifting up the veil
My soul isn’t for sale
I sale I crack like the liberty bell
And the days and months to come
I say it once so listen up well
Trying to sell natural habit for a digital hell
No, no, no, no
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
Can’t stop the rock I go ceasing the deuce
From quick for pause I pause but never peace
Neighborhood respect I’m awesome in the streets
Beast on the beats when y’all repeating this shit
No tarts for Christmas I just wanna quit
Y’all were in the mix I was at the click mix
You at the dance, dancing, I’m at the dance spitting
Now I’m gone trafficking and y’all are gone chilling
I was in the beats, in the books and in the zone
You were in the mirror just trying on cologne
Same corner clicks since 16 years old
Still doing high school shit you just know
Got a couple babies I’m basically educating
Take them on plane to train them for the images
You were rolling stone, escaping and not craving
Bitch you ain’t grown you’re too lazy to pave them
Dropped every fan from basement to stadiums
All of them slam the small joint’s my favorite
Even when I’m old and they say I’ve failed all
Shit might slow but never shall it stop
No, no, no, no
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
Shot in the bottom when he told me never doubt
Music get the pounding on that truth to fall about
No doubt about it he better have every out
Heavy metal rapping we flow steadily ground
Don’t matter how many clouds are right around
Love to be surrounded like the sun when it’s out
Let them live a minute then fuck’em you start to shine
Let them just tumble to the sound and keep clowning
Never did I desire to make it rain dollars
Make some poor fathers make his daughter excited
Plenty find dimes inspired by dead bodies
Responded high power rhymes I recited
Never believe I needed smoke to catch fire
But drink fire order just to get electrified
The breath of God that’s worth in making me high
It’s vibrating and making living into the sky
No, no, no, no
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
How the hell I stopped? Well I don’t remember stopping
Parked down my mama singing get deep tarred
Pain was the popping, pheromones my older brother
You was my cool ass uncle from California
When I got to school I was jump, jumping on it
Payer that’s one, Chuck D gave the signs
If I said I lost it they would send me to the office
Had to see the principle dive the boom box
All that hip hopping I graduated with honest
Fear two warm ups slap that was my college
Master ceremony chalk because I rocked it
Finally got my doctor when I started head blinding
Long as the human beat box will keep knocking
Yes that’s my heart, nope, I never stopped
They put me in the ground and everybody starts solid
Somebody drop out with shadows on the sun pounding
No, no, no, no
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
No I never stop
No I never stop
No I never stop
Just keep coming for more
Alright, 6 AM, let’s see the shop!
Uh, not a, not, a, not a damn day goes by
Nobody’s hands waving high at the great sky
Bitch had my main fly A like my main high
They put me on they back and carry me when I can’t fly
They put me in the skin tattooed with a pin
Stick me in the pin when a rebel with a pen
I had the window open to my soul, let’s knock’em in
They love me like a trusted friend till I come again
How many shitty put your fam through faux fame
Diamond ballin chain spitting aerosol flame
Dough! Such a paradox change
I rap cause change but can I say that I’m all saint?
They told me that the top’s kinda lonely so
While climbing for it thought you might wanna hold me
Turns out I got a glory with a saddle
Lonely got the guarders for me babe
Where the motherfucking beat? Come back again
No hate but I already did
Just trying to think where the lesser is
The message’s clear we’ll never get more or less than sweat and tears
Destiny, the chance you see is the best you get
And the best deception is that success is infinite
Let me get more emphasis
Get up on your ass go though some working
Know the war when I’m moving first
And you’re not trying to prove your word I thought
Quit sucking life out the universe
You fuckers want something for free
It’s never gonna be not for me
I see that it’s my property and it’s all on me, not believe
Honestly I believe in charity and modesty
But everything I have can see that the ...belongs to me
I don’t need to rap like that I’m sorry you hear me snap like that
Let me just take a deep breath and get myself right back on track
I love you guys I just want y’all to see the truth about
If you don’t love yourself ain’t nothing I can do about it
This came polluted human garbage oozing addict
Bunch a dudes in a stupid outfit
Trying to catch a move, stop it!
Old school dudes who ain’t popping
Hate to see your bitch you get chronic
Aiming for but you ain’t inspired
But then there’s so much amusingness that I can’t resist it
It’s not the aim about it making it but they ain’t listening
A6 I grabbed the bussing
Started painting pictures, grab the mic and said
Ok hit!
Drowning in a darken room, drowning in to find a book
Time was up was out of luck I was kinda stuck
Eyes wide swollen shot it’s when you’re lucky enough
Sucker punch slip up and catch an upper cut
Rack heads drunkies and junks
I go first dynamite finally round them up
Till the sun come up kids don’t wanna jump
Pop scotch double clutch
Windows of they...down frowning, here comes the bus
My head is always up, I was told it’s up
Cry forever and the day it won’t be long enough
I’ll be getting my time and up, refine sign it up
Gotta find a diamond in the rough mind I can stop
I rock solid rock copping bus
To step I’d betted get it right for the pipes to sell the bus
Sun keep shining and the earth keep turning in
The beats keep hanging it in so ok
He was a 17 year old nobody had the guts
Tell me you ain’t even grown
She didn’t love me she just didn’t wanna be alone
But I ain’t love her I just loved feeling needed so
Guess when either turned up she was singing though
I’m talking it must’ve been the head like I ain’t seen before
Argue every single day she was screaming from
Things had gotten clear when I said I’m leaving her
We had a key and we weren’t even three months old
You would leave them alone only God know how
Long she’d been gone didn’t know where she would go
Come in with daddy now, happy now
Here she’d go blew her top mama baby go rock
She shot me in the eye and the ...
But the sun keeps shining and the birds keep chirping
And bees keep banging their way so ok
Yo Ali, how was I rocking?
How come I say peace every time we talk man?
It’s time to get’em, it’s time, time to get’em
I got to killing my eyes got to kissing
I rock the rhythm with sounds like decision
My arm got to swinging highlight the vision
My mind got hearing the gods for choir singing
I could not fight the feeling I find the mind thrilling
Crowds got shifting and the bars got to...
Specially when they figure pop locked all the windows
It’s really not a sin to admire what God gave’em
Know my wife’s listening, come on I’m only kidding
I found a lot in the way grinding on the living
My fam, for not a minute I forgot about my children
And their time is grumbling and I got the feeling
I’m all about the business, I could modify the spitting
It’s kinda hard to fit in my side of system
But I do give a shit, my shows are hell of intimate
If you guys are a band then where the hell are your instruments?
Interesting halla at the beta D
Put them all to see and season them up for me
He asking my staff what’s happening with your captain
He look like J Parkman and talk like Mars Blackman
Lobby at the W hotel was cracking
Took off my jacket and called it a back spit
Heard! Yo! Yo Ali, was that you?
Yo Ali, come watch a movie with you
Peace!
Let it be known I love all of my fans
Lot of them are making water and they washing your hands
Got a big box of models sign them all in advance
So get off of me sliding your ass so don’t bother me
Uh, I dress sharp like I never did
Big white beard looking something like Santa babe
At a Kentucky Fried Chicken man
Pushed me like a pimp said he had a biscuit in his hand
So strange that I’m busting it
Don’t know what strain of shit it is but I’m full of it
I’ll be that dude and my 80s still trying to spit
You’ll be saying, yo yo I almost made it but you’re full of shit
Too bad I’m in the rain with some other mans
Ride on the train, tuxedo and some other kids
Hide pain I have nothing to the government
Until somebody run Marc Keith for president
I’m Brother Ali and I do Brother Ali things
And I provide for my family you know what I mean?
Phantom of the Opera, champion offer
Reincarnated black pimp spitting lava
Passionate power in the state of Jack McGovern
Handsome in the profits of the last days and hours
Casualty of war no one’s guaranteed tomorrow
Ain’t got the sky to trump blood on tomorrow
Chose to blow the whole blow is an altar
Up right honorable obelisk posture
Been back spots full of vultures
Bought a shit all rock with your vulture
Cultivated thoughts in and in for last...
Highly regarded, wildly accomplished
Been bowed down before on six continents
Travel at the speed of sound and get nauseous
Just to catch shadows in the darkness
Unclick never refine so genuine
Up the echelon like the sun arrived at the time
Credit the divine testify the blessing every time
Stripper down the message every record that he tried to sign
Push this spin in line till the end of the time
Camera lenses never could define my impeccable shine
Lie, evidence of the intelligent design
With an evolutionary mind and call yourself divine
Gentlemen at doubt with a legendary grind
Work ethic gets inspired by the pyramid’s design
But rapidly decline to the level of the time
This expression so you catch a Duke...
Highly regarded, wildly accomplished
Been bowed down before on six continents
Travel at the speed of sound and get nauseous
Just to catch shadows in the darkness
The name of the Lord’s sustainer evolve or raise her
Whole system’s knowledge creator
Brace the awesome all seen author of nature
Artistic shaper of all small and age
The greater maker of light, give her and take her
Guard displayer of the guard and I was placed in
My rival was described to the angels
Half the time of nature was glocked in my nature
Born blind in a world full of hatred
Shaped by the blank reservation I came in
Outside the matrix was my presentation
Faithfully reigning on my things class ranking
Ball cast a lie from the obelisk invasion
Lost in the haze of the forced occupation
Cradle by the love of the bust people pay in
I busted out the love’s never been the same
Highly regarded, wildly accomplished
Been bowed down before on six continents
Travel at the speed of sound and get nauseous
Just to catch shadows in the darkness
Fact! It is 8:45 AM and I’m not doing this shit
I’m gonna tell you something right there motherfucker
Check it out!
Everywhere I go trying to do my rapper thing
Got money to cool dudes that wanna do the same
Well listen closely, Imma give you some game
How to get your thing together right and get you a name
The first rule is you gotta be you to the utmost
Bring a listener to your world and pull’em up close
Let her see how it feels to be in your shoes
Take the journey that you’re on see what you through
What it is about you that makes you different?
And what about your story makes interesting
Can you really make me feeling without listening?
If not then ain’t nobody try and give a shit
There’s a lot better ways at making money so
If that’s why you’re here quit now, take it from me
First decade it’s always gonna be hard
So work in itself it’s gotta be the reward
If you saw a man that could do it for ya, you probably should
Shit is now how they make it seem on Hollywood
But if you can’t sleep at night cause your ass got it right
Just to feel right then it will all be cool
Please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that nothing in life is what it seems
Please, please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that it’s not
They call it show business, should’ve called it business show
First nigger how the saying go
So never mind that shit, just let it grow
Revolution comments and go for what you know
The most supporting relationship you had
When you with your grads don’t ever forget that
Business only matters when your ass is on demand
Success depends on your connection with your fans
And if you plan on taking money form your friends
You better give them as much in return as you can
Give them albums they can listen to for years
Give them great live shows
Give them blood, sweat and tears
I’m not saying these folks won’t try to play you
But you stay true, you don’t need them to embrace you
Embrace yourself but then brace yourself
You gonna be staring in the face of hate yourself
Can’t get distracted with that kind of shit
Fans deicide who the real hit liner is
You can’t get something without being the best
You have to ask yourself if that’s really worth having man
Please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that nothing in life is what it seems
Please, please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that it’s not
It took like 15 years for me to get what I want
But that time would have passed without trying or not
So what’s a fellow gotta do?
Your life’s gonna be what you dedicate it to
So every time we celebrate something new
It opens new doors that we get the pressure through
I guess I knew with every level I grew
Expect more from me than I ever expect from you
My work is reflection of you
So put your whole ass in everything that you do
This is your life got to live it your way
And then you gotta let them shift forward and make my bad
Please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that nothing in life is what it seems
Please, please listen to my demo
I gotta kick a little shit to let my friends know
Never let go live out your dreams
Just know that it’s not
Another day, another hour
Said the devil got his arms around you
In a spot where the love ain’t found you
So weak but it’s all very powerful
I’d pull you know but I don’t know how to
Said the devil got his arms around you
My, my, my daddy on that medicine
I guess the demons are dancing in his head again
Many women try to breeze though and rescue him
What they all seem to see
Trying to get a thing screaming between you and your agony
Strangling your anger till it settles in apathy
Have you seen seeing that nobody should have to see
Shadowing screams of your own humanity
I feel the mimic calling on of the human soul
That somehow could never know that it won alone
If you took a ...jean then it always cup’em in
Beats sticking till it drown in the undertow
Till the day he saw the stripper of that rugged no
And everything I ever touched it went up in smoke
Apologize this woman didn’t know a heart doesn’t love
Any less pure just because it’s broke
Said the devil got his arms around you
In a spot where the love ain’t found you
So weak but it’s all very powerful
I’d pull you know but I don’t know how to
Said the devil got his arms around you
In a spot where the love ain’t found you
So weak but it’s all very powerful
I’d pull you know but I don’t know how to
You’d better tell’em you love’em and make’em believe you
Get between your people and they need before they leave you
Tell’em something when you look’em in the eye
Before you can’t say nothing but goodbye
Said the devil got his arms around you
