Public Enemy gathered a collection of live performance footage for the visual for their track featuring Brother Ali, “Get Up Stand Up”, off the duo’s Evil vs. Heroes album.

While recently in Canada Brother Ali caught up with Nardwuar who as always came bearing knowledge and gifts.

Justin Timberlake shows up and beat boxes for Brother Ali Live at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson, Wyoming for the JH Snowboarder Magazine release party 2010.

Brother Ali & Justin Timberlake in Wyoming? Word? Thats ill? haha

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Going over Kanye (or Diddy’s) I’m So Appalled, via 2dopeboyz.

We had 15 inches of snow in Minnesota over the past few days. My holiday was over a month ago and I’ve been stuck in my house the last few days. To entertain myself, I chopped up a Kanye West song called “I’m So Appalled” and did a super rough homemade recording of some bars. This is what I do when I’m bored!

Brother Ali – Blizzard Rap ‘09 (I’m So Appalled Freestyle) | Mediafire

The Presence of Greatness.

Last week I flew out to New York to sit in with The Legendary Roots Crew on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I’m a huge fan of these dudes. Questlove is one of the greatest producers/band leaders of all time, Black Thought is among the greatest MC’s and The Roots are in my top 10 most influential Hip Hop groups. -Look for an article on my top 10 later this week.- We played “The Preacher” and “Tight Rope” along with a few freestyle pieces. It’s a shame that most of what we did was during the commercial breaks but here’s the entire episode from last Tuesday.

Poppin’ bottles with Jimmy and The Roots.

Hit the jump for footage of Brother Ali at OKP’s ‘09 Holiday Jammy.

Read more about that night on his blog.

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Brother Ali is Hip Hop’s formidable Road Warrior. He tours at a relentless pace, something that is not only integral to his music career, but his actual musical output. His fan base is grassroots grown, and one that relates to Ali on a variety of levels. On his recent album, Us, Ali puts that relationship, as well as a plethora of others, front and center with the goal to bridge the gap between his friends and his fans. During a recent tour stop in Chicago, Ali sat down with RubyHornet.com’s DJ RTC to talk relationships, touring, and more. Check it out.

Previously: Brother Ali – Room With A View (Live in Chicago) (Video)

As the Fresh Air Tour continues.

Courtesy of Ruby Hornet

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Brother Ali join Gift of Gab of Blackalicious on this joint off his new album Escape 2 Mars, which drops November 3rd.

Gift of Gab ft. Del & Brother Ali – Dreamin