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Brother Ali - Uncle Sam God Damn

submitted by djsunkid

1 decade 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago

Here's the video for Uncle Sam God Damn. Readers may or may not already know that Brother Ali is an albino black American Muslim, but those elements of his fractious identity have a lot to do with his politics so I thought it would be worth mentioning.

So awesome:
You don't give money to the bums
on the corner with a sign, bleeding from their gums
talking bout you don't want to support a crack head
what do you think happens to the money from your taxes?

shit, the government's the addict
with a billion dollar-a-week kill brown people habit
and even if you ain't on the front lines
when master yells crunch time you right back at it
plain look at how you hustlin' backwards
at the end of the year, add up what they subtracted
three months of the year, your salary pays for that madness

9 Comments

Great fucking song.

Ya salaam!

I met Brother Ali a couple of years ago in London - he's a really nice guy!

boombap says...

Brother Ali isn't a black albino, his parents are white.
None of this matters though, what does matter is that his music is DOPE!

This article goes more in depth about his racial identity and how it has affected his life.

http://www.citypages.com/databank/28/1375/article15315.asp

It's easy to see how he would come to reject a white racial identity seeing how whites treated him like a sub-human freak and blacks accepted him. He's a very interesting and talented guy.

chooon

Great article, thanks for the link. This guy is totally up and coming, it would seem. Awesome.

*promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 12:55pm PDT - promote requested by EndAll.

and *hiphop! duh!

Adding video to channels (Hiphop) - requested by EndAll.

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