[00:00.00]Namesake - Brother Ali
[00:05.73]I am somebody
[00:10.85]And we am and she am and he am and I am
[00:15.82]Somebody
[00:21.44]I was raised with the raised fist
[00:24.39]Angela Davis summer sixty-eight Olympics
[00:27.59]Train banging your wings against
[00:29.47]The cage in the event you became cageless
[00:32.24]The bane of my existence is to resist
[00:34.81]Back never bent re-load never relent
[00:37.63]Of All lights shone I'm glimmering glint
[00:40.08]I was named after a king in our midst The Greatest
[00:43.10]Changed the world in the ring with his fists
[00:45.53]More so with the gift when rang from his lips
[00:48.52]Bigger than just a individual gift
[00:50.61]He had a vision for bringing dignity to the crib
[00:53.75]Gold medalist in his Olympic event
[00:56.07]Significant respect glistening off his neck
[00:58.90]US flag waved the globe was silent
[01:01.66]Wore it everywhere he went just to show what it meant
[01:04.28]Stepped off the plane back on that pavement
[01:06.92]The people hell bent that they will never repent
[01:09.56]Celebrate him but his kin still clinched in a
[01:12.38]Problem one piece of medal couldn't fix
[01:14.95]Legend is he pitched it in the Ohio River
[01:17.72]What good is recognition if I know that I'm a -victim
[01:20.79]Expelled in a held back curriculum
[01:23.11]Class president slash second class citizen
[01:25.69]Diligent to fight for people
[01:28.12]Nineteen years old sacrificed his ego
[01:31.13]So here we go salute my namesake
[01:33.52]Many are successful very few are great
[01:40.31]Right on y'all I am somebody
[01:46.64]And we am and she am and he am and I am
[01:51.84]Somebody
[01:57.30]I am he am she am and we am
[02:02.61]Somebody