But the place didn’t really erupt until albino legally-blind Muslim rapper (yeah, take a minute with that) Brother Ali brought his fiery rhymes to the stage.

With a preacher’s cadence and poetic couplets on everything from his failed first marriage to civil liberties (he calls himself Howard Stern meets Howard Zinn”), the MC, who recently released The Undisputed Truth on Rhymesayers Entertainment, had the crowd screaming “A-li! A-li! A-li!” “Imagine a chubby albino kid from Minneapolis,” he said from the stage, cutting off the chant. “KRS-One is more of a father to you than your own dad.

Melle Mel is your uncle in you mind, and you memorize every word Rakim ever rapped.