Brother Ali knows everyone thinks he's black. He is, in fact, whiter than white, a genuine albino whose condition has made him legally blind. He's turned the odd ironies of his career into a lifelong campaign against any divides: black or white, mainstream or underground. He's also adept at bringing together both ends of the songwriting spectrum, dropping fiercely political raps one minute, and the next taking everything down to a brutally honest personal level in lyrics about his divorce, or living homeless with his son. By now, you've probably realized there's no one in hip-hop quite like him.
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Brother Ali knows everyone thinks he's black. He is, in fact, whiter than white, a genuine albino whose condition has made him legally blind. He's turned the odd ironies of his career into a lifelong campaign against any divides: black or white, mainstream or underground. He's also adept at bringing together both ends of the songwriting spectrum, dropping fiercely political raps one minute, and the next taking everything down to a brutally honest personal level in lyrics about his divorce, or living homeless with his son. By now, you've probably realized there's no one in hip-hop quite like him.
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