We've as a society had the same problems for literally hundreds of years. You can go back and read things from the early 1800's, and they've realized and sorted out problems we're still arguing about today. Climate change was discovered in 1865 by Eunice Foote. Trickle Down Economics was called "Horse and Sparrow Theory" 200 years ago. Rich powerful people want to maintain their power, and will do anything to that end. Period. It used to be kings, princes and aristocrats... now it's Presidents, CEO's, and aristocrats. It's the exact same story, the same problems, the same obvious solutions that we will never adopt. That's how Conservatism works, literally all they have is conserving the same broken status quo.
@@turdseyeview4763 Rather, why do you think this is NOT? Ryth is here, and poetry is here. I said poetry not just 2-3 verses that are poetic. That isn't poetry.
What trouble? No trouble. Somebody lied to you. Did he go to jail? Pay a fine? ...grown ass men don't consider people responding "trouble" ...people wish he got "in trouble" but the fact is if you consider that trouble then everyone is in it... just curious what trouble he got in?
@@Elbowmacaroni11913 I Love your sunny look on things. For me, I'm just witnessing another war, another humanitarian catastrophe. On top of a collapsing climate, pandemic, and looming economic crash from years of pressure. So for give me if I playing "The Sound of Silence" on repeat. Don't they have enough real problems to deal with. You Know!!
@@Libikuroi be optimistic, but be realistic. I know that in the face of the current political climate it feels like people don't see the "strings of the puppetry" so to speak, but the people are becoming more passionate, and more accepting, and I think we will continue to see this positive change in society. I know that the system is unfair to the majority of people, but people are starting to see it! About another 40 years of complaining and we will see a lot of beautiful changes😂
@@Libikuroi I know it's hard not to be cynical in the face of a bs world, but keep a healthy balance of cynicism, and optimism, and look back to all the Changes that lead us to the much better world we live in now👍
"Legacies so ingrained in the way that we think that we no longer need chains to be slaves." I have no words to describe how much respect and love i have for brother Ali. You keep doing you my dude.
@@blueknight8700 it's a reference to the story of David and Goliath. Goliath is huge and powerful, David is just a little tiny boy. Yet, when David fights against Goliath, he wins after hitting the giant with a stone. He's talking about how America is looking to be defeated. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan. America, despite being a superpower (thus, Goliath) has been looking for their David for the entirety of their history. Or at least that's how I perceive it.
@@kostasblackbeard9261 That's deep and maybe true. Ibn Khaldoun's al-Muqaddimah describes this as a fatal stage every political entity eventually goes through. The original Greek democracy is an example, check out "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides.
Also speaks to the potential of controlled opposition, casting call for the role, but under control, like lots of these phony left and right social media warriors
467sprite A few athletes have refused to stand for the national anthem out of protest and the media goes insane over it. This was written years before this started happening.
467sprite Prophetic means that history is trying to tell us something in reference to future events. Like when people speak of 9/11 type events before it happens.
They've "upgraded" the situation. Now you don't have to be a minority to get that treatment. *Everyone* gets treated foul now. They just tell you certain groups are treated worse so you're not at risk of banding together to fight the *real* enemy. Hegellian Dialectic at work. Race-based discrimination was just a trial-run. All comes back to the easiest form of oppression; "Pervert the people to the extent that they become the means of their own oppression."
This comment 🖤 truth will never stop being truth.. even when its not “fashionable” or is met with deaf ears.. sometimes the true revolutionaries have to fly under the radar until people “actually” LISTEN!! And that’s okay .. as long as the TRUTH is heard and processed !!✌🏻 people of brains and heart must unite and stand together!! This system is designed to make us hate each other, and to fight each other in the streets , because they know if we band together, we are UNSTOPPABLE!! I promise you!! Love your brothers and sisters!! And don’t act suprised when they don’t LOOK like you!! We in these trenches together!!! Destroy the SYSTEM!! 🤘🏼 not EACH OTHER!!!
Keep in mind, the Americans here are mostly WW2 immigrants. We were the generation responsible for allowing Iraq to happen… because we were blinded as our parents were by nationalism. But we were not responsible for the slave trade nor the Native American brutality. Second generation Norwegian. Dutch-Germany. They fled the persecution of the Nazi party of Germany.
@@BurdenofTheMighty The song is about far more than the slave trade and the genocide of the indigenous population. It points to the fact that that very legacy is what informs the present-day imperialism. I am a very first generation American, and I left the country over twenty years ago for similar reasons that your grandparents fled the Nazis. I was vehemently against the Iraq war, the principal reason I left, along with my sense of the growing crypto-fascism of American governance after the Bush-Cheney coup of 2000, the substructure of which has remained in power to this day, regardless of which clown occupies the White House. Indeed the disease has spread to Europe, where I now live.
It was only until the last 4 years where it got so blatant. In his/their lies and criminal activities. The breaking point in history is now. "the show" was written in the last 4 years and won't be done until inauguration day. But America did the right thing. Most of the people in the rest of the world are thankful ❤️
@@seakr_7o9 yes because once the media's buddy Biden wins, then they will help cover for him and his crooked family. Personally, I think trump is a giant douche, but he is the only president that has done, or tried to do, the things which he campaigned on. Also he is only president to not run 2 terms(in my life)
@@Imran-yr6qh I care. Good to read a comment coming from someone. Who has descendants that rightfully inherited this land first before the invasion. You don't speak for all the masses friend. I suggest not to even try voicing for those that aren't even yours.
@@damirisdamir No one rightly inherits land. You fight for it. You lose. Tough shit. The same over the whole planet. Do you believe the original settlers from Eurasia never fought others for the land they had before the made the journey? Do you believe the original settlers never fought over it? First there means nothing. You have to hold it. Once again. Just like land over the whole planet. It will change again and again over time. Stop crying because you got kicked off it. It happens to everyone. You regroup and come again. Or accept defeat. The strong take advantage of the weak. It is the way of things. Until that changes and we all sing kumbaya. Deal with it or do something about it.
I met brother Ali at a concert In wisconsin in 2015 after he preformed. I was wearing a shirt for a band I was in and he told me to stay in music. I was about 15 and had never heard of him until then but I've been a fan since. 9 years later I followed his advice and got a degree in musical engineering. Thank you Ali.
Definitely is! Just saw him in Lawrence, KS about a week ago. listening to this live and him telling Donald Trump to fuck off and get educated was 11/10!!
UnitedStatians do not realize, do not know that the USA, Inc. is a veritable Police State---most funded policing Statehood---as there is absolutely no nation/no Statehood as this here low-consciousness planet that has SO SO many levels or layers of policing [which requires TAX money; being one of the salient we are taxed so much with MINIMAL social-net services in RETURN]. THERE IS NO OTHER nation on this planet that has/that can AFFORD: a village police, then a city police then a county/parish police [our beloved sheriffs (of Nottingham)], then State police, then State militia, then US Marshals, then the FBI [.......& Domestic depts. of the truly Machiavellian agencies-- CIA, NSA, etc.], and then the US MILITARY. ["Governance is nothing more than legalized MAFIA. When will you peasants realize? In your vote your civil serpent becomes your master. In this hypocrisy of a democracy, when was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Control you? When was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Enslave you? When was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Tax you?"]
@@anilprasad4185 please get this part right next time. USA inc. is incorrect. U.S.A.(The usa... The United States of America) is a country. UNITED STATES is a corporation that governs the willing. If one claims to be UNITED STATES citizen on any LEGAL document , then one has essentially contracted consent to be governed by Maritime Admiralty Law which is the set of laws that govern commerce, or UNITED STATES
Brother Ali was interviewed for the book series, *HOW TO RAP* and *HOW TO RAP2*, and shared his rapping techniques. Here he talks about writing political songs. "Even my political songs and stuff, they’re all personal-I’m not doing them to raise awareness. If that does happen, then that’s cool, that’s great, but I’m not making these songs with the idea that I’m gonna change the world with these songs- I’m gonna express myself with these songs."
There is no such thing as “real hip-hop.” Stop with all that 🛑. You probably mean “conscious” hip hop or hip hop with a message. Nothing is wrong with all the types of hip hop. Stop hating.
I got to see Brother Ali open for Rakim and Ghostface in Philly. Had the Roots Crew band backing them up. Best hip-hop show I've seen to date and that was almost 20 years ago. This song made me an instant fan.
saw that same show in utah. couldnt believe how few people there knew of Brother Ali, and even Rakim. First time i saw Ali was in burlington vt in 2002 i think. so good.
Dame Bother Ali. This was so ahead of its time when it dropped! 14 years later we were in the fringe. Now the majority’s waking up! I’m gonna share the hell out of this man because it still holds so true to this day. Man if you dropped a part two about this current madness. I’d be Amazing!
@@We.do.not.scissor Yup. You can go back and read stories, songs and poems from 100 years ago, and they're as relevant to day as they were when they were written. The Grapes Of Wrath could come out tomorrow, without a word changed, and it would be just as relevant to life now as it was then, maybe even more so. The real ones have been singing the same song, pointing out the same problems for as long as humans have been recording their thoughts.
He really means it and there's soul in it, but he's a couple decades off on the message. Next he's gonna make a song about how it's such a big problem that horses are shitting in the streets when people ride them to work and how we need to find a better, more mechanically sophisticated way to get around.
Kobina Jamieson I mean, in one form or another. My analogy wasn’t absolutely perfect. But in any practical sense that warrants a song trying to sway society, it’s not happening. It’s all on more of a smaller scale that society as a whole can’t necessarily do more about.
It says 9 months ago when you typed this. Its June 17th and just discovered Brother Ali from Immortal Technique and I'm glad I know about his music/message.
I concur. Just keeps going and going ...relevant before then, then, now .... And hopefully if we can finally and I mean finally stand our asses up and stop this greedy corrupt egotistical egomaniacal selfish divisive racist white superior complex oriented machine maybe one day this song won't be relevant and we can look back on it knowing it took a hell of a long time to finally get things straight and finally bring change for everybody for the betterment of all for the betterment of our brothers and sisters
I only heard of Brother Ali just a short while ago, my brother told me. This is the first song I've heard from him and my first thought was: wow! This person is a true poet, with the upmost integrity telling us about how he feels about the (I love this one) United Snakes. So Brother Ali, just letting you know: I'm gonna buy an album man, support this kind of music: smart, critical and true!
He’s the perfect example of the collusion between government and entertainment. Without that, most of y’all would have heard this song 14 years ago on every station
Thanks to Brother Ali for fighting the good fight. Speaking truth to power… Boldly. THIS is how we need to celebrate the 4th of July… There’s work to do.
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NOV 5, 2024
Now more relevant than ever..
yeah about that
You ain't lying
Remember, Remember the 5th of November = anonymous😂
Still hittin hard January 1st, 2024 🇵🇸✊🏼
U my friend have fuckin' awesome taste of music!
🖕🏼Palestine
stronger every day
Itll hit much harder in the grave...
@@abdur-rahmanabdul-khaaliq3017 😂
“Try to separate a man from his soul. You only strengthen his and lose your own.”- Damn that’s some powerful shit!
Yes it is powerful shit!
4:20
🔥🔥🔥❤❤
❤@@scrubdaddy7110😊
the next line ''but shoot that fucker if he walk near the throne'' is so American it's scary
14 years and every bar still hits
i watched him live yesterday never heard of him and he went sooo hard 💯💯💯
Hits even harder now. ✊
First time hearing this guy, nearly melted my speakers with this heat
@@LargeFather69 cracked the screen with the sudden temp change
✌❤🍀
Almost 2025 and I’m still playing this. Who else?
"Only approved questions get answered."
2021 truer than ever.
Always has been true.
@@loslingos1232 Probably true. I have just become aware.
Aww says the people trying to attacK CRT and supporting lying fascists who tried to overthrow democracy for trump.
@@lorib360 you can't hide pain for too long, eventually people learn, in a couple years, even the ignorant will have to learn
you must been sleep in 2016 to 2020
2024 still a jam
AMEN!
#STOPGENOCIDE
"Only approved questions get answered, now stand you ass up for that national anthem" 🔥🔥
Blue Team.
Killed it.
How is this song 17 years old, and it’s not just still relevant, it’s more relevant than ever. F*ck!
We've as a society had the same problems for literally hundreds of years.
You can go back and read things from the early 1800's, and they've realized and sorted out problems we're still arguing about today.
Climate change was discovered in 1865 by Eunice Foote.
Trickle Down Economics was called "Horse and Sparrow Theory" 200 years ago.
Rich powerful people want to maintain their power, and will do anything to that end. Period.
It used to be kings, princes and aristocrats... now it's Presidents, CEO's, and aristocrats.
It's the exact same story, the same problems, the same obvious solutions that we will never adopt. That's how Conservatism works, literally all they have is conserving the same broken status quo.
This is some groovy ass art. This is real rap, this is what should be on our radios.
but its not... why do you think that is?
+Jamal El Rhaman Because the truth hurts those in power.
+Angolana dam right
Ammal Ismail He meant the people controlling the media. :)
@@turdseyeview4763 Rather, why do you think this is NOT? Ryth is here, and poetry is here. I said poetry not just 2-3 verses that are poetic. That isn't poetry.
first song i've ever heard by this dude as of now. helluva first impression
zaxx19 Check his five fingers of death on Sway
That's how I heard of him. he killed the five fingers
Drake Knight-Graves This track kind of got him into trouble as well. *"...speak a little truth and people lose their damn minds..."* smh...
Drake Knight-Graves You should definitely try "Mourning in America" next, it's probably my favourite song from him
What trouble? No trouble. Somebody lied to you. Did he go to jail? Pay a fine? ...grown ass men don't consider people responding "trouble" ...people wish he got "in trouble" but the fact is if you consider that trouble then everyone is in it... just curious what trouble he got in?
This song should either serve as a reminder, or a wake up call.
Shits never gonna change bro. Everybody is still not seeing it.
@@Libikuroi a lot can change. Stay optimistic 👌
@@Elbowmacaroni11913 I Love your sunny look on things. For me, I'm just witnessing another war, another humanitarian catastrophe. On top of a collapsing climate, pandemic, and looming economic crash from years of pressure. So for give me if I playing "The Sound of Silence" on repeat. Don't they have enough real problems to deal with. You Know!!
@@Libikuroi be optimistic, but be realistic. I know that in the face of the current political climate it feels like people don't see the "strings of the puppetry" so to speak, but the people are becoming more passionate, and more accepting, and I think we will continue to see this positive change in society. I know that the system is unfair to the majority of people, but people are starting to see it! About another 40 years of complaining and we will see a lot of beautiful changes😂
@@Libikuroi I know it's hard not to be cynical in the face of a bs world, but keep a healthy balance of cynicism, and optimism, and look back to all the Changes that lead us to the much better world we live in now👍
this guy's flow level is 100
There's always one........
Go home.
+SMALL NOW rapping fast doesn't = flow
+Comemeism i realize that eminem only speed raps in one... the song despicable has 9000 flow
Eminem strength isn't his flow.......He's flow is far from him.
I ONLY WISHED EVERYONE TRULY FELT WHAT HE'S SAYING!!!
This is hitting harder in 2024
"Legacies so ingrained in the way that we think that we no longer need chains to be slaves." I have no words to describe how much respect and love i have for brother Ali. You keep doing you my dude.
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Orgasmatron 2.0 hip hop cut LOL LOVE IT!
*"Now the grown up Goliath nation*
*Holding open auditions for the part of David"*
HOLY SHIT!!!
What does that mean?
@@blueknight8700 it's a reference to the story of David and Goliath. Goliath is huge and powerful, David is just a little tiny boy. Yet, when David fights against Goliath, he wins after hitting the giant with a stone.
He's talking about how America is looking to be defeated. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan. America, despite being a superpower (thus, Goliath) has been looking for their David for the entirety of their history.
Or at least that's how I perceive it.
@@kostasblackbeard9261 thank
@@kostasblackbeard9261 That's deep and maybe true. Ibn Khaldoun's al-Muqaddimah describes this as a fatal stage every political entity eventually goes through. The original Greek democracy is an example, check out "The Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides.
Also speaks to the potential of controlled opposition, casting call for the role, but under control, like lots of these phony left and right social media warriors
"Now stand yo ass up for that national anthem"
Fucking prophetic.
what is
467sprite
A few athletes have refused to stand for the national anthem out of protest and the media goes insane over it. This was written years before this started happening.
Cason Huffman im sorry but whats your point?
Cason Huffman
Yeah
467sprite Prophetic means that history is trying to tell us something in reference to future events. Like when people speak of 9/11 type events before it happens.
Over a decade later and this track is more relevant than ever. We continue to be free range slaves.
Gilded age
They've "upgraded" the situation. Now you don't have to be a minority to get that treatment. *Everyone* gets treated foul now. They just tell you certain groups are treated worse so you're not at risk of banding together to fight the *real* enemy. Hegellian Dialectic at work.
Race-based discrimination was just a trial-run. All comes back to the easiest form of oppression; "Pervert the people to the extent that they become the means of their own oppression."
For real, hits even harder than in the post 9/11 era, especially that "holding open auditions for the part of David" line 🔥
Modern day feudalism
You’re not slaves anymore. You have liberty tell others to get it together
One of the best songs ever written IMHO.. This is the lineage of Melle Mel. Real Hip Hop!!!
Dam straight. Truth builder
This song becoming even more relevant in 2020; it's meaning rings true.
GOOD SHIT IS TIMELESS
Facts
💯💯
Hell yea
💯
"A grown up Goliath nation holding open auditions for the role of David"
George Reagan that line is bad ass. Unfortunately probably flies over most ppls heads tho. He has so many intricate verses like that
so hardcore
Vietnam has entered the chat
@@mrboomward sorry, no professionals...
@@mrboomward Afghanistan too lol
You know that you’re making real music when it is still relevant a decade later
Kinda sad nothing has changed yet. In fact it appears to be even worse
@@RiotforPeacePlz- It's always darkest before dawn.
This is not Relevant I just came across this,No Radio Play for multiple reasons...
➡️And when they refuse to play it on mainstream platforms. All by design of course.
This comment 🖤 truth will never stop being truth.. even when its not “fashionable” or is met with deaf ears.. sometimes the true revolutionaries have to fly under the radar until people “actually” LISTEN!! And that’s okay .. as long as the TRUTH is heard and processed !!✌🏻 people of brains and heart must unite and stand together!! This system is designed to make us hate each other, and to fight each other in the streets , because they know if we band together, we are UNSTOPPABLE!! I promise you!! Love your brothers and sisters!! And don’t act suprised when they don’t LOOK like you!! We in these trenches together!!! Destroy the SYSTEM!! 🤘🏼 not EACH OTHER!!!
It's 2022, I'm still bumping this from Nigeria..
Keep in mind, the Americans here are mostly WW2 immigrants. We were the generation responsible for allowing Iraq to happen… because we were blinded as our parents were by nationalism. But we were not responsible for the slave trade nor the Native American brutality. Second generation Norwegian. Dutch-Germany. They fled the persecution of the Nazi party of Germany.
@@BurdenofTheMighty The song is about far more than the slave trade and the genocide of the indigenous population. It points to the fact that that very legacy is what informs the present-day imperialism. I am a very first generation American, and I left the country over twenty years ago for similar reasons that your grandparents fled the Nazis. I was vehemently against the Iraq war, the principal reason I left, along with my sense of the growing crypto-fascism of American governance after the Bush-Cheney coup of 2000, the substructure of which has remained in power to this day, regardless of which clown occupies the White House. Indeed the disease has spread to Europe, where I now live.
"Only approved questions get answered; now stand yo' azz up for that national anthem..."
And this came out 13 years ago?! Wow!
Thank you for joining us. Also check out "immortal technique"
Yeah that's sad
It was only until the last 4 years where it got so blatant. In his/their lies and criminal activities. The breaking point in history is now. "the show" was written in the last 4 years and won't be done until inauguration day.
But America did the right thing. Most of the people in the rest of the world are thankful ❤️
I've lived here since 92 and it would have been just as relevant. The problem hasn't gotten worse, just easier to see now.
@@seakr_7o9 yes because once the media's buddy Biden wins, then they will help cover for him and his crooked family. Personally, I think trump is a giant douche, but he is the only president that has done, or tried to do, the things which he campaigned on. Also he is only president to not run 2 terms(in my life)
Thanks for speakin truth
Sincerely, a thankful Native American
no one cares who you are though
but yeah he spoke the truth
@@Imran-yr6qh I care. Good to read a comment coming from someone. Who has descendants that rightfully inherited this land first before the invasion. You don't speak for all the masses friend. I suggest not to even try voicing for those that aren't even yours.
@@damirisdamir shut up..
@@Imran-yr6qh nice comeback. 👌
@@damirisdamir No one rightly inherits land. You fight for it. You lose. Tough shit. The same over the whole planet. Do you believe the original settlers from Eurasia never fought others for the land they had before the made the journey? Do you believe the original settlers never fought over it? First there means nothing. You have to hold it. Once again. Just like land over the whole planet. It will change again and again over time. Stop crying because you got kicked off it. It happens to everyone. You regroup and come again. Or accept defeat. The strong take advantage of the weak. It is the way of things. Until that changes and we all sing kumbaya. Deal with it or do something about it.
"Legacy so engraved in the way that we think that we no longer need chains to be slaves"
I met brother Ali at a concert In wisconsin in 2015 after he preformed. I was wearing a shirt for a band I was in and he told me to stay in music. I was about 15 and had never heard of him until then but I've been a fan since. 9 years later I followed his advice and got a degree in musical engineering. Thank you Ali.
That crackhead line still fuckin slaps today
Indeed
Brother Ali knew what he talked about🥷
Damn this is true hip hop.
boogiemanspud for real
yes cool Awesome skills man history hip-hop real
Truth!
Brother Ali slept on for sure. This album was a banger so many good, meaningful, tracks.
"The show ain't be written for it yet."
[2020 has entered the chat]
2024 has joined the chat.
I have never really liked rap, but this is fucking amazing
Don't say you don't like it amigo. I started out that way, until I found non-mainstream rappers like this guy.
See that's cuz this is REAL rap, not that Bs they play on radios
+MCNIKKNACK This is REAL RAP!! Not like that MAINSTREAM STUFF!! UGHGHGHGHG!!
+Gustav Danielsbacka welcome to hip hop
+Sil encer Thanks, and I'm pretty sure I'm here to stay
The best hook of all time .
“Talkin bout you don’t support a crack head…What you think happens to the money from your taxes?” Oooh damn!! 💯
is he still alive ?after spitting so much truth!
Thankfully hes still at it
Just saw him last night and he's still mad good.
Got a personal visit from department of homeland security for this one. reckon he's alive though
Definitely is! Just saw him in Lawrence, KS about a week ago. listening to this live and him telling Donald Trump to fuck off and get educated was 11/10!!
Think he dropped a new album actually.
One of the dopest beats of all time. Profound lyrics.
One of the most underrated rapper and song of all time
I used to not like rap and then I found non mainstream rappers like Brother Ali and now rap is my #1 I listen to daily
Check out Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Drezus, Nataanii Means and Mob Bounce...
Jedi Mind Tricks - Uncommon Valor. You're welcome.
@@indigenous.hip-hopscene3153 and Aesop Rock.
Edit: I have liked all I've heard from Rhymesayers.
Fact
Gang Starr & Atmosphere
Laughing crying drinking smoking all at the same time good shit
Hits like a hammer now with the Israel - Palestine war escalation
Any rapper who quotes Nina Simone at the start of his song is alright with me. Love this dude.
Brother ali was put on an FBI watch list for this song
Land of the freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
We all need to be a part of the solution
Really?!?!?
I didnt know that.
UnitedStatians do not realize, do not know that the USA, Inc. is a veritable Police State---most funded policing Statehood---as there is absolutely no nation/no Statehood as this here low-consciousness planet that has SO SO many levels or layers of policing [which requires TAX money; being one of the salient we are taxed so much with MINIMAL social-net services in RETURN].
THERE IS NO OTHER nation on this planet that has/that can AFFORD: a village police, then a city police then a county/parish police [our beloved sheriffs (of Nottingham)], then State police, then State militia, then US Marshals, then the FBI [.......& Domestic depts. of the truly Machiavellian agencies-- CIA, NSA, etc.], and then the US MILITARY.
["Governance is nothing more than legalized MAFIA.
When will you peasants realize?
In your vote your civil serpent becomes your master.
In this hypocrisy of a democracy, when was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Control you?
When was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Enslave you?
When was the last time you were asked to give input on the cameras and rules that Tax you?"]
@@anilprasad4185 please get this part right next time. USA inc. is incorrect. U.S.A.(The usa... The United States of America) is a country.
UNITED STATES is a corporation that governs the willing. If one claims to be UNITED STATES citizen on any LEGAL document , then one has essentially contracted consent to be governed by Maritime Admiralty Law which is the set of laws that govern commerce, or UNITED STATES
When the song came out the United States Department of Homeland Security froze a money transfer to his record label
This is one of the strongest lyrics of all time. The beat hits, too. This song is more relevant today than ever. Goddamn.
Immortal Technique never told me he had a cousin.
Omar Moodie check out Civil war by IT, Brother Ali is on that track
😂
They're close friends and affiliates who work together
Brother Ali was interviewed for the book series, *HOW TO RAP* and *HOW TO RAP2*, and shared his rapping techniques. Here he talks about writing political songs.
"Even my political songs and stuff, they’re all personal-I’m
not doing them to raise awareness. If that does happen, then
that’s cool, that’s great, but I’m not making these songs with
the idea that I’m gonna change the world with these songs-
I’m gonna express myself with these songs."
Gotta respect Brother Ali for his dope originality.
This is the American legacy. Never forget.
So grateful I grew up listening to real hip-hop like this.
Got any more recommendations like this for an interested internet stranger?
@@kenankabbani855 you could listen to some of “”KRS-ONE’s” music.
You could also listen to Atmosphere for some good hip hop
There is no such thing as “real hip-hop.” Stop with all that 🛑. You probably mean “conscious” hip hop or hip hop with a message. Nothing is wrong with all the types of hip hop. Stop hating.
I learn more in a brotha ali song than i do at school
obviously
you didnt learn more from brotha ali, you learned the truth from him
Still listening in 2019 ✌🏻
still relevant reminder ⚡️⚡️
still pure rap fire 🔥
@@noofalata give me another week the guillotine isnt finished yet
@@IW3527 hurry up man we need it asap
Today its more relevant than ever :/
@@maxthiemer Yep! 2020
Oh 2019, if I could only get you prepared for 2020 vision
Here we are 2024
lmaooo the bars are still valid to every word
I got to see Brother Ali open for Rakim and Ghostface in Philly. Had the Roots Crew band backing them up. Best hip-hop show I've seen to date and that was almost 20 years ago. This song made me an instant fan.
saw that same show in utah. couldnt believe how few people there knew of Brother Ali, and even Rakim. First time i saw Ali was in burlington vt in 2002 i think. so good.
Here watching Minnesota riots.....song is relevant as hell.
Ali is from Minnesota as well
Jew United States
Media calls them riots. I say quit rioting and start revolutionizing
@@bobbyguzman9202 Revolution is a process
Glad to see the 2024 love in these comments
This shit was NOT censored a couple months ago when I last heard it, WHAT THE FUCK!!!?
Dame Bother Ali. This was so ahead of its time when it dropped! 14 years later we were in the fringe. Now the majority’s waking up! I’m gonna share the hell out of this man because it still holds so true to this day. Man if you dropped a part two about this current madness. I’d be Amazing!
It wasn't ahead of it's time. Times just haven't changed.
He played right into the hands of the people that he wants to fight against.
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@@We.do.not.scissor Yup.
You can go back and read stories, songs and poems from 100 years ago, and they're as relevant to day as they were when they were written.
The Grapes Of Wrath could come out tomorrow, without a word changed, and it would be just as relevant to life now as it was then, maybe even more so.
The real ones have been singing the same song, pointing out the same problems for as long as humans have been recording their thoughts.
This is the most important song to the US created in the last 50 years. EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAR IT!
ODD TV Illusions I rank #1 but this song is top 5.
Facts!!!!
congrats on making this your national anthem, again america. wow you really did it.
Oh wow,2016 and I hear this just now?
Bring the damn fire extinguisher,cause Brother Ali is spitting fire...
I can tell you haven't listened to brother Ali by the way you fucking talk but welcome to the best music out there
right with you there
He got some 🔥,just ran across him on Spotify. Nice👍🏽
@@gt8746 I am far from America and do not know English, but I’ve been listening to my brother since 2008
Good shit. I know he's gotten a lot of heat for this track, but he just spills it with 100% integrity and sincerity; I love it.
He really means it and there's soul in it, but he's a couple decades off on the message. Next he's gonna make a song about how it's such a big problem that horses are shitting in the streets when people ride them to work and how we need to find a better, more mechanically sophisticated way to get around.
@@cadmiumandwilsin2993 everything he is saying is still happening in one form or another
Kobina Jamieson I mean, in one form or another. My analogy wasn’t absolutely perfect. But in any practical sense that warrants a song trying to sway society, it’s not happening. It’s all on more of a smaller scale that society as a whole can’t necessarily do more about.
@@cadmiumandwilsin2993 sounds about white
The flak is from the fact that this is truth! He's putting it on blast. Real deal saying it without giving any Fucks. 🤩😁
I hope they day will come when this song is outdated, but that day is not yet, nor soon.
If anything, it's more relevant.
It says 9 months ago when you typed this. Its June 17th and just discovered Brother Ali from Immortal Technique and I'm glad I know about his music/message.
the established order of the ages . 5,000 years and counting .
Its a nice dream,. Naive maybe, but I dream that I share with you.
This song is as relevant as ever. Brother Ali is the truth. This is real music. We gotta stay aware.
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Divided we fall united we stand tall!
This just keeps getting more and more relevant.
Commenting just in case you forgot about making this comment 2 years ago
@Sideways G Same problems and no change. Right you are, my friend.
I concur. Just keeps going and going ...relevant before then, then, now .... And hopefully if we can finally and I mean finally stand our asses up and stop this greedy corrupt egotistical egomaniacal selfish divisive racist white superior complex oriented machine maybe one day this song won't be relevant and we can look back on it knowing it took a hell of a long time to finally get things straight and finally bring change for everybody for the betterment of all for the betterment of our brothers and sisters
One of the Best Rap Song EVER !!!
Hell yes bro! Also are you Indonesian? Just wondering bc your name and I know the hat you’re wearing is an Indonesian thing
My STUDENTS suggested I get with it! Still doing it yearrrrrs later teaching this epic song!!!
this track is timeless.
2023 and still fire 🔥
Dont ever stop making music. We need more artists like you
You're my Uncle Sam for the blessing for my grandpa Sam God damn them all
BRILLIANT
Everything he said in this song is historical.
legendary song
How are we still here?
DAAMMNNNN why Im hearing this for the first time !?!?
I would never forget the legendary reunion between Aesop Rock, Asap Rocky and Brother Ali. Truly groundbreaking moment.
Can’t believe I saw this live in Vancouver 2016! Such a great show, deM atlaS, Brother Ali and Atmosphere
top 10 song of all time
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME HEARING, 30 SECONDS IN, IVE WAISTED MY LIFE. HE IS A LEGEND
I only heard of Brother Ali just a short while ago, my brother told me. This is the first song I've heard from him and my first thought was: wow! This person is a true poet, with the upmost integrity telling us about how he feels about the (I love this one) United Snakes. So Brother Ali, just letting you know: I'm gonna buy an album man, support this kind of music: smart, critical and true!
It's free speech at its best.
Dope music awesome good Cool hip-hop classic poetry
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That feeling when you hear a new artist for the first time and know immediately you've struck gold.
+Ammal Ismail Check out
K-Rino
On yeshua
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He’s the perfect example of the collusion between government and entertainment. Without that, most of y’all would have heard this song 14 years ago on every station
Seeing this was posted 17 years ago rocked my shit harder than any punch
That beat is hawt.. yo.... Cant wait to play this joint.. on them highways...
Happy fifteenth anniversary.
Still as relevant now as ever.
This was the type of rapper I grew up wanting to be changing shit with his lyrics making a difference for humanity
He said the truth a long time ago but no one believed him 😊
Minneapolis people where you at!!!
More of this. Not less of this.
And I discover this just now.
AFTER 10 YEARS!
"only approved questions get answered, now stand your ass up for that national anthem..." Feels like the truth...
As a retired United States Marine this is now my new memorial Day song! I believe I will use it for the Fourth of July as well!
Ase'
this song speaks so much truth and the beat is cold.
10 years later lyrics are just as powerful, truly amazing work.
Thanks to Brother Ali for fighting the good fight. Speaking truth to power… Boldly. THIS is how we need to celebrate the 4th of July… There’s work to do.
You are doing your part by posting a comment on a youtube no one else will ever see.
"Only approved questions get answered."
5*
"Now stand you're ass up for that national anthem."
One of the greatest songs ever written.
he's not wrong and it's even more true now
Evergreen song.... *sigh*