Tuesday, January 3rd 2012
News: Brother Ali
Brother Ali ‘Writer’s Block’ Ramps Excitement For New Album
It’s about to be a great year for music.
I spoke with Rhymesayers’ inimitable not-so-secret weapon Brother Ali in an interview roughly a year ago about the music he’s been recording lately with Jake One, as a potential follow-up to his incredible 2009 release Us (check our review). He had the following to say on the issue then:
“I’ve known Jake One for a long time, since 2000 or 2001 or something, and we’ve been talking about doing stuff together for a long time. So hopefully I’ll have some time where I can really focus on making an album and try to figure out what it’s going to shape up like. Maybe go hang out in Seattle for a couple weeks (where Jake lives).”
The trip was taken, and progress has indeed been made, and Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color is not far from seeing the light of day. As he outlines in the new, Jake One-producer killer Writer’s Block, Ali isn’t “trying to be one of them fools that makes hundreds of new songs but none of them are good.” He’s more of a surgical lyrical prophet. Check it:
Download the track for free here.
Goosebumps on high. This one can’t drop soon enough. Keep up with Brother Ali at his official website.
