Ghostface Killah: The best way to spend your Halloween: a one-off show of the truest hip-hop talents all backed by the ten-piece Rhythm Roots All-Stars. With Rakim and Brother Ali. 7pm. $30-35.
VAULT 350 350 Pine Ave, Long Beach 90802. 888.80.VAULT; vault350.com.
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Brother Ali’s Undisputed Truth

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY

Minneapolis’ Brother Ali is one of those unbeatable all-weather heavy tanks they roll off the line at Rhymesayers when independent hip-hop starts feeling too soft or too fuzzyheaded—a humble hard-working clear-eyed moralist who put out his first tape with money from a police-brutality settlement and who raps (over production [...]