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Brother Ali

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Ali Douglas Newman (born Jason Douglas Newman, July 30, 1977), better known by his stage name Brother Ali, is an American rapper, community activist, and member of the Rhymesayers Entertainment hip hop collective. [1]

85 relations: All the Beauty in This Whole Life, Ant (producer), Atmosphere (music group), Berenstain Bears, Billboard 200, BuzzFeed, Champion (EP), Chuck D, Classified (rapper), Compact Cassette, Compact disc, Del the Funky Homosapien, Escape 2 Mars, Extended play, Freeway (rapper), Gift of Gab (rapper), Grieves, Handshakes and Middle Fingers, Hilltop Hoods, Hip hop music, Hip hop production, Huck (magazine), Immortal Technique, Independent Albums, Islam, Jake One, Jean Grae, Joell Ortiz, Judge John Hodgman, Killer Mike, KRS-One, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Legends Never Die (R.A. the Rugged Man album), LP record, Madison, Wisconsin, Malaysia, Malcolm X, Masta Ace, Maximum Fun, Minneapolis, Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, New Hope, Minnesota, Planet Asia, Population Control (album), Prof (rapper), Public Enemy (band), R.A. the Rugged Man, Ramadan (calendar month), ..., Rap Albums, Rapping, Rhymesayers Entertainment, Rites of Passage (Brother Ali album), Robbinsdale Cooper High School, Sab the Artist, Sacha Jenkins, Seven's Travels, Shadows on the Sun, Slug (rapper), Stage name, Statik Selektah, Sweet potato pie, Talib Kweli, The Evaporators, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Martyr (album), The Roots, The Takeover (Zion I album), The Truth Is Here, The Undisputed Truth (Brother Ali album), Together/Apart, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Twin Cities hip hop, Uncle Sam Goddamn, Underground hip hop, Us (Brother Ali album), Visual impairment, Walking Under Stars, Warith Deen Mohammed, Warner Music Group, White Van Music, Yes! (U.S. magazine), Zion I, 9th Wonder. Expand index (35 more) »

All the Beauty in This Whole Life

All the Beauty in This Whole Life is the sixth studio album by Brother Ali.

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Ant (producer)

Anthony Davis (born September 6, 1970), better known by his stage name Ant, is an American hip hop producer.

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Atmosphere (music group)

Atmosphere is an American hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota, consisting of rapper Slug (Sean Daley) and DJ/producer Ant (Anthony Davis).

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Berenstain Bears

The Berenstain Bears is a children's literature franchise created by Stan and Jan Berenstain and continued by their son, Mike Berenstain, who assumed partial authorship in 2002, and full authorship in 2012 following Jan's death.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed, Inc. is an American Internet media company based in New York City.

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Champion (EP)

Champion EP is Brother Ali's third release.

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Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.

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Classified (rapper)

Lucas Boyd (born December 13, 1977), better known by his stage name Classified, is a Canadian rapper and record producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia.

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Compact Cassette

The Compact Audio Cassette (CAC) or Musicassette (MC), also commonly called the cassette tape or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Del the Funky Homosapien

Teren Delvon Jones (born August 12, 1972), better known by his stage name Del the Funky Homosapien or Sir DZL, is an American alternative hip hop MC, producer and singer.

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Escape 2 Mars

Escape 2 Mars is the second solo album by American rapper Gift of Gab.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Freeway (rapper)

Leslie Edward Pridgen (born August 6, 1978), better known by his stage name Freeway, is an American rapper from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Gift of Gab (rapper)

Timothy Parker, better known by his stage name Gift of Gab, is an American rapper best known for performing in the Bay Area hip hop duo Blackalicious along with DJ Chief Xcel.

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Grieves

Benjamin Laub, better known by his stage name Grieves, is an American hip hop artist based in Seattle, Washington.

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Handshakes and Middle Fingers

Handshakes and Middle Fingers is the second major release studio album by Canadian rapper Classified released on March 22, 2011 on Sony Music Canada, his thirteenth studio album overall.

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Hilltop Hoods

Hilltop Hoods are an Australian hip hop group that formed in 1994 in Blackwood, Adelaide, South Australia.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hip hop production

Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio.

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Huck (magazine)

Huck is a bi-monthly magazine, website and video platform.

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Immortal Technique

Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian-American hip hop recording artist and activist.

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Independent Albums

The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Jake One

Jacob Dutton, better known as Jake One, is an American hip hop record producer from Seattle, Washington.

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Jean Grae

Jean Grae (born Tsidi Ibrahim, November 26, 1976), formerly known as What? What?, is an American hip hop recording artist, actress, and comedian from Brooklyn, New York City.

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Joell Ortiz

Joell Christopher Ortiz (born July 6, 1980) is an American rapper and a member of the group Slaughterhouse.

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Judge John Hodgman

Judge John Hodgman is a weekly, comedic court show podcast hosted by humorist John Hodgman and distributed online by Maximum Fun.

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Killer Mike

Michael Santiago Render (born April 20, 1975), better known by his stage name Killer Mike, is an American rapper, actor, and activist.

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KRS-One

Lawrence "Kris" Parker (born August 20, 1965), better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and occasional producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York.

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009.

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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is an American late-night talk show hosted by comedian Jimmy Fallon.

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Legends Never Die (R.A. the Rugged Man album)

Legends Never Die is the second studio album from New York City hip hop artist R.A. the Rugged Man.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Masta Ace

Duval Clear (born December 4, 1966), known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is an American rapper and record producer from Brownsville, Brooklyn.

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Maximum Fun

Maximum Fun is an independent podcast and radio show production organization founded and run by Jesse Thorn.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp

Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp is the eleventh studio album by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released on July 13, 2012, by Slam Jamz.

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Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color

Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color is the fifth studio album by American rapper Brother Ali.

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New Hope, Minnesota

New Hope is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States and a suburb of Minneapolis.

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Planet Asia

Jason Green (born October 24, 1976), better known as Planet Asia, is a rapper from Fresno, California.

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Population Control (album)

Population Control is the fourth studio album by East Coast hip hop producer Statik Selektah.

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Prof (rapper)

Jacob "Jake" Anderson (born April 29, 1984), better known by his stage name Prof, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Public Enemy (band)

Public Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group.

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R.A. the Rugged Man

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Ramadan (calendar month)

Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان) or Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and the month in which the Quran was revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Rap Albums

Top Rap Albums is an American record chart published by Billboard that ranks rap albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Rapping

Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

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Rhymesayers Entertainment

Rhymesayers Entertainment (sometimes abbreviated RSE) is an American hip hop independent record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Rites of Passage (Brother Ali album)

Rites of Passage is the first album by American hip hop artist Brother Ali.

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Robbinsdale Cooper High School

Robbinsdale Cooper High School is a public secondary school in New Hope, Minnesota, a northwest suburb of Minneapolis.

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Sab the Artist

Musab Saad, better known by his stage name Sab the Artist, Musab, or Beyond, is an American recording artist, rapper, songwriter, record producer and music executive from Minneapolis, Minnesota, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Sacha Jenkins

Sacha Jenkins (born 1971) is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures.

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Seven's Travels

Seven's Travels is the third studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere, their first and only for Epitaph.

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Shadows on the Sun

Shadows on the Sun is the second studio album by American rapper Brother Ali.

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Slug (rapper)

Sean Michael Daley (born September 7, 1972), better known by his stage name Slug, is an American rapper from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Stage name

A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and musicians.

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Statik Selektah

Patrick Baril (born January 23, 1982), professionally known as Statik Selektah, is an American record producer, disc jockey (DJ) and radio personality originally from the Boston, Massachusetts area.

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Sweet potato pie

Sweet potato pie is a traditional dessert, originating in the Southern United States.

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Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975) is an American hip hop recording artist, entrepreneur, and social activist.

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The Evaporators

The Evaporators is a Canadian garage rock band formed in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson.

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The Martyr (album)

The Martyr is a compilation album by rapper Immortal Technique, released on October 27, 2011 through free digital download on ViperRecords.com.

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The Roots

The Roots is an American hip hop band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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The Takeover (Zion I album)

The Takeover is a studio album by West Coast hip hop duo Zion I, released February 17, 2009 on Gold Dust Media.

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The Truth Is Here

The Truth Is Here is an EP by Rhymesayers MC Brother Ali.The song "Good Lord" had a promotional video.

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The Undisputed Truth (Brother Ali album)

The Undisputed Truth is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Brother Ali, his second major release.

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Together/Apart

Together/Apart is the third studio album by American hip hop artist Grieves.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Twin Cities hip hop

Minneapolis hip hop is hip hop or rap music that originates from the Minneapolis metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Uncle Sam Goddamn

"Uncle Sam Goddamn" is the second single from Brother Ali's second full-length album The Undisputed Truth.

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Underground hip hop

Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon.

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Us (Brother Ali album)

Us is a studio album by American rapper Brother Ali.

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Visual impairment

Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.

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Walking Under Stars

Walking Under Stars is the seventh studio album by Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods, released on 8 August 2014.

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Warith Deen Mohammed

Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was a progressive African American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker (1975–2008) who disbanded the original Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1976 and transformed it into an orthodox mainstream Islamic movement, the World Community of Al-Islam in the West which later became the American Society of Muslims.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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White Van Music

White Van Music is the first studio album by American hip hop producer Jake One.

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Yes! (U.S. magazine)

YES! is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism.

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Zion I

Zion I is an American hip hop duo from Oakland, California.

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9th Wonder

Patrick Denard Douthit (born January 15, 1975), better known as 9th Wonder, is a hip hop record producer, record executive, DJ, lecturer, and rapper from Midway, North Carolina, U.S. He began his career as the main producer for the group Little Brother in Durham, North Carolina, and has also worked with Mary J. Blige, Jean Grae, Wale, Jay-Z, Murs, Drake, Buckshot, Chris Brown, Destiny's Child, J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, Ludacris, Mac Miller, David Banner, Lecrae, Jill Scott, Big Boi, Rapsody, and Anderson.Paak.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Ali

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