by
Brother Ali
- Record Label: New Release
- Release Date: May 5, 2017
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May 12, 2017All the Beauty in This Whole Life is a welcome work by an artist who's put it all on the table over the past six albums; his seventh was well worth the wait.
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May 23, 2017With All the Beauty in This Whole Life, he created not just an album that represents an arranged amalgamation of his own experiences, but also a hip-hop album with so much soul that Rakim would blush.
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May 12, 2017Ali returns with All the Beauty in This Whole Life, a record that never shies away from facing injustice but focuses on a different aspect of activism: inner transformation. That's not a new age slogan but ancient wisdom carried from Tao to Gandhi to MLK; Ali brings it down the pipe with the hammer of compassion.
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May 17, 2017Urgent and impactful as always, his heartfelt music succeeds at balancing out traditional drum programming with original music composition.
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May 12, 2017It’s both sharp-tongued and warm hearted, an LP-length memoir that dabbles in political manifesto. But it comes over like an album Ali made for himself, and he sounds better off because of it.
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May 12, 2017All the Beauty in This Whole Life is a solid album with words worth listening to and taking to heart. Brother Ali’s art is aging well, thanks to his fearlessness in allowing that art to mature along with him.
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