3. All Men Are Brothers
ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS
All Men Are Brothers, by Professor A.L.I. featuring Khalil Ismail
VERSE 1:
5 pillars & honor, calling a silent Aqama
My Uigher Nation and the Dalai Lama
Chinese knowledge cultivated by the great Da Mo
A monk from Shaolin who was also Tamil
Us Tiggers still don’t have a country yet
So I feel for Uigheristan and a ‘Free Tibet’
Blood money paid for Tenzin Delek
In your afterlives, who you think Buddha bless?
Asiatic athiests where you gonna run to?
We’re the cats who taught you all that kung-fu
We’re the dark skinned ones, studied by Sun Tzu
The meek shall join forces as One-Twos
Ready hunt food, you remain a city dweller
Ignore his signs, blind like Helen keller
This an ode to the rebeller, dedication
‘All Men are Brothers’, in the new nation
VERSE 2:
Firetalker Perkins, Sydney shoulda’ been burned
And just like Pompei, it’ll get its turn
Yo Eva Kereopa said, “We want our land!”
Whether, YOU call it ‘Australia’ or ‘New Zealand’
Like my man Yagan from the Noongar Tribe
Real martyrs don’t die, we multiply
And stay alive, inspire the rest to prove
Like U-Haul trucks, we be making moves
From Mindanao to Manila we reppin’ the five pillars
We community builders, and filthy thieve killers
To those who strive, I dedicate this song
Like Maha Ghosananda and wayward Hmong
And Kazakhs, shout out to Osman Batyr
May you rest in peace, and have no fear,
Their souls will reap what in life they sowed
Usurpers see the unity in all your foes
VERSE 3:
Revolutionary times, and we persistant
Even Myanmar, no use resisting
States overrun by firewalking rebels
Insurrection led by one, dark skinned Tamil
I read the Hagakure, Code of Bushido
I know how Samurais lived, way back in Edo
But when I think about how the Ainu used to be free
I get so charged, I become an attack emcee
Spit venom, while I’m spelling Corea with a C
Judgement: hara-kiri for those Japanese
Black Steven speaks, katana holdin’
Every night I pray for my 40 Ronin
Brothers with cold stones, hearts be golden
We rep all them cats whose lands been stolen
Our eyes be swollen, wept land for mothers
All men together, we a band of brothers!
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