I hope you got passports, and vaccine shots
take rappers on a field trip any day They been opposite real clip any way I know all the looters and the shooters stay to the city we call Doomsday
Where are just fried chicken like Tuesday Oh, you from the hood, huh, who My Nigerian niggas call you pussy My Somali niggas are quick to the Uzi
Around here we only bumpin' Kuti or Bob Marley, Lucky Dube So we don't really give a fuck about your This is Africa,
T.I.A. (Hooray) T.I.A. (Hooray)
T.I.A. (Hooray) It means, is Africa (Hooray)
You don't know how it is here The streets is tricky in parts here You know how hard this is here The need this shit here
You don't know how hard it is The streets is tricky in these parts You don't how hard this is here The streets this shit here
I rappers through the killa woods any day They've never been opposite, real goons I know all the tricky, sticky, icky alley to the continent of holidays (Africa)
Where holidays quickly turn to days Stars fall quicker than box of case No Bill Gates, no Why you are debatin', actin' and fakin' these days?
I what they need like milk crates I learned from the deadly streets, no And I wasn't ever for a street cred But these streets me to be street safe
It's no secret we know how to lead But the pre-set is not to have to it Used to be at peace now we use And it reads R.I.P. the peace dead
When I walk through the slums nomane Little say, "K'naan bumaye" The rap just got itself a new day is Africa, hooray
T.I.A. (Hooray) T.I.A. (Hooray)
T.I.A. (Hooray) It means, this is (Hooray)
You don't know how hard it is The streets is tricky in these parts You don't know how hard is here The streets this shit here
You don't how hard it is here The streets is tricky in these here You don't know how hard this is The streets need this shit