Namesake - Brother Ali

I am somebody

And we am and she am and he am and I am

Somebody

I was raised with the raised fist

Angela Davis summer sixty-eight Olympics

Train banging your wings against

The cage in the event you became cageless

The bane of my existence is to resist

Back never bent re-load never relent

Of All lights shone I’m glimmering glint

I was named after a king in our midst The Greatest

Changed the world in the ring with his fists

More so with the gift when rang from his lips

Bigger than just a individual gift

He had a vision for bringing dignity to the crib

Gold medalist in his Olympic event

Significant respect glistening off his neck

US flag waved the globe was silent

Wore it everywhere he went just to show what it meant

Stepped off the plane back on that pavement

The people hell bent that they will never repent

Celebrate him but his kin still clinched in a

Problem one piece of medal couldn’t fix

Legend is he pitched it in the Ohio River

What good is recognition if I know that I’m a -victim

Expelled in a held back curriculum

Class president slash second class citizen

Diligent to fight for people

Nineteen years old sacrificed his ego

So here we go salute my namesake

Many are successful very few are great

Right on y’all.

I am somebody

And we am and she am and he am and I am

Somebody

I am he am she am and we am

Somebody