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Namesake - Brother Ali |
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I am somebody |
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And we am and she am and he am and I am |
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Somebody |
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I was raised with the raised fist |
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Angela Davis summer sixty-eight Olympics |
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Train banging your wings against |
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The cage in the event you became cageless |
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The bane of my existence is to resist |
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Back never bent re-load never relent |
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Of All lights shone I'm glimmering glint |
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I was named after a king in our midst The Greatest |
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Changed the world in the ring with his fists |
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More so with the gift when rang from his lips |
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Bigger than just a individual gift |
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He had a vision for bringing dignity to the crib |
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Gold medalist in his Olympic event |
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Significant respect glistening off his neck |
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US flag waved the globe was silent |
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Wore it everywhere he went just to show what it meant |
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Stepped off the plane back on that pavement |
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The people hell bent that they will never repent |
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Celebrate him but his kin still clinched in a |
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Problem one piece of medal couldn't fix |
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Legend is he pitched it in the Ohio River |
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What good is recognition if I know that I'm a -victim |
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Expelled in a held back curriculum |
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Class president slash second class citizen |
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Diligent to fight for people |
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Nineteen years old sacrificed his ego |
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So here we go salute my namesake |
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Many are successful very few are great |
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Right on y'all I am somebody |
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And we am and she am and he am and I am |
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Somebody |
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I am he am she am and we am |
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Somebody |
