Brother Ali - All The Beauty In This Whole Life

CD packaging includes embossed slipcase with spot gloss finish, custom printed CD sleeve and 20-page CD booklet containing photographs and full album lyrics.

Vinyl Packaging includes 3-color translucent double splatter vinyl, custom embossed slipcase with spot gloss finish, full color custom printed sleeves, 8-page LP booklet containing photos and full album lyrics and free digital download card.

Over the past 17 years, Brother Ali has earned wide critical acclaim for his deeply personal, socially conscious, and inspiring brand of hip-hop. Under Rhymesayers Entertainment, he's unleashed a series of lauded projects, establishing himself as one of the most respected independent voices in music. The latest chapter in that celebrated journey is All the Beauty in This Whole Life, a 15-track collection produced entirely by Atmosphere's Anthony “Ant" Davis.

"This entire album is based on the reality that beauty is the splendor of truth" says the Minneapolis MC. "Beauty in all of its forms is the outward manifestation of love and virtue. It soothes the soul and pulls it gently toward the truth it communicates. Every word and note of this album is intended to either reflect beauty, or expose the ugliness that blocks us from living lives of meaning."

All the Beauty in This Whole Life is Ali's first official release in five years and represents the newest and most refined chapter of his life's journey. "Each of my albums are the result of the pain, growth and eventual healing that I experience. Articulating the pain and navigating the healing allows the people who really feel my music to travel with me. It's not only that we hurt together, we heal together as well."

Contrasting intensely heavy moments with joyous and grateful ones, All the Beauty in This Whole Life arrives right on time, to help heal a divided nation through the power of music. Ali wouldn't have it any other way. "In times of great suffering in the outside world, the most important battles start from within."

Tracklisting:

  1. Pen To Paper feat. Amir Sulaiman
  2. Own Light (What Hearts Are For)
  3. Special Effects feat. deM atlaS
  4. Can't Take That Away
  5. Dear Black Son
  6. We Got This feat. Sa-Roc
  7. Uncle Usi Taught Me
  8. Pray For Me
  9. It Ain't Easy
  10. Never Learn
  11. Tremble
  12. Before They Called You White
  13. The Bitten Apple feat. Idris Philips
  14. Out of Here
  15. All The Beauty In This Whole Life