Those who swing by here on the regular already know that I’m a huge Brother Ali fan. Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to see him live, even though he was over here in Switzerland a year ago, at the Montreux Jazz Festival, together with Atmosphere. The festival is great, but the tickets are a killer, and then there’s the question of where to sleep… So I had to pass on this one.
Anyway, to tide me and you over till we do get the chance to look homeboy into his pink and pale face, here are some live shows I’ve ripped off the bonus DVD included in his latest album “The Undisputed Truth”.
If you’re only going to peep one of them, make sure it’s the first one here below. He opens up with a bunch of verses over a medley of classic beats, starting with Straight outta Compton, going into Cypress Hill, KRS, P.E., etc. Just an ill show-opener for his home-crowd.
download: Brother Ali – 5th Element 6th Anniversary Party, Minneapolis 2005
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download: Brother Ali live at Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), 2006
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download: Brother Ali live at Scribble Jam
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download: Brother Ali live at Paid Dues Festival, L.A. (CA)
Enjoy,
9@home
29 October 2007 at 7:47 pm
OMG, we saw Bro Ali back home with Atmosphere and actually dug him alittle more than Atmposphere which is like blasphemy
-he’s real dope and that spoken word about his son brings even the most triflin’ hoes to tears
xoxoxo
LC
30 October 2007 at 6:37 pm
damn, no wonder your link wasn’t working, we’re such f*cking amateurs! anyway, Bro Ali did it spoken word style in concert and there were more real tears than fake jizz at a Gwar concert
31 October 2007 at 2:18 am
bigup for the nice bwog.
any more African love? ethiopia, ghana, tanzania? really really feeling those sounds and so hard to come by…
respect
31 October 2007 at 7:50 am
my friend also said that he though brother ali was better when he started for atmosphere which was suprising..
about that m-phazes.. i saw him live not too long ago at an Oddissee and Kev Brown concert and he was dope, that guy has taste.. he hasnt got any of his own releases but theres a 4-cd bootleg floating around the internet somewhere.. he also recently produced half of the latest 13th Son (aussie rapper) album which was recently released..
31 October 2007 at 9:23 am
@bobo
Right now, I don’t have anything else, but as soon as “my source” starts bubbling again, I’ll hit you up with some more. Good to know somebody cares. ;)
31 October 2007 at 9:25 am
@biff
Yeah, I’ve got that M-Phazes 4CD comp and it’s mad nice. I just wasn’t sure if it was a bootleg or a proper release, cos I’d buy it if it existed… I’m feeling a lot of those Aussie blokes like 13th son, Bliss-n-Eso and them.
31 October 2007 at 5:04 pm
i actualy met m-phazes that night, really cool guy.. my mate asked him about where he could get the 4-cd release but m-phazes didnt even know it existed haha.. so yeh, another bootleg..
apparently he did a song with Oddissee recently, i think as a result of the tour.. will have to look into that..
1 November 2007 at 6:45 am
yeah i seen brother ali in concert with murs and slug like 5 or 6 years ago on the sunset strip, along with the mystik journeymen, brother ali definitely spit better than the rest, he even did a freestyle which came off like whoa, its funny though, i feel like this cat is better live than he is on cd or lp, i saw him on conan o’brien, that shit was great to a live band
1 November 2007 at 10:43 pm
waddup 9? got that Ali vid from Conan on my blog. it’s dope as hell. Any chance of a link to that m-phazes 4banger?
20 November 2007 at 10:53 pm
tad late on this comment,
but i saw brother ali and all those guys at the little stage
at the rock the bells joint, and he was very impressive.
many of these guys are much better live.
i also dug sage a lot, too. live.
living legends put it on, as did doom.