Brother Ali - Dial Tone lyrics

[Intro] Ladies and Gentlemen On the piano tonight, to my left, your right Is Jake One And I am... [Verse] Big, bad, body rocking, failure is not an option I been grinding 9 to 5 like Dolly Parton Art for talking, make them lean like oxycontin Not for nothing but the dream sequence kind of vibrant No, I'm not a prophet nor am I proselytizing My a**ignment, to take my little light and shine it They can not define it so they want to water it down Got to colonize ground and commodify it Put you on a diet of this honest pious Modest live wire writer piping loud enough to 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 have 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 Jinn 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 Got to wear the shoe that fits even if it's a crucifix Wallace you are truly missed, pardon all your human sins My douer is you living the garden and it's purely bliss We still bear the fruit of his Houda that was beauty kissed Before Gabriel pick up that horn up and play that tune of his You won't let the humans live, let the humans love Let us never dictate who is 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