Brother Ali chronicles his winding life and career in the dramatic "Pen to Paper," his first new song since 2012's Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. The Minneapolis rapper recounts the escapism of writing lyrics as a child: "Put pen to paper the first time when I was barely eight or maybe nine/ That was the late Eighties, Reagan time," he rhymes with a commanding flow over
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