[K'naan]
I hope you got your passports, and vaccine shots
I'll take rappers on a fieldtrip ANY DAY!!
They'll neva been opposite real clip ANYWAY!!
I know where all the looters and the shooters STAY!!
Welcome to the city we call DOOMSDAY!!
Where niggas are just fried chicken like TUESDAY!!
Oh, you from the hood huh? WHO SAY!!
My Nigerian niggas will call you PUSSY!!
My Somali niggas are quick to grab the UZI!!
Around here we only bumpin' Fela Kuti!!
Tupac, or Bob Marley, Lucky Dube!!
So we don't really give a fuck about your GROUPIES!!
This is Africa, HOORAY!!
(Hook)
T.I.A.
(HOORAY!!)
T.I.A.
(HOORAY!!)
T.I.A.
(HOORAY!!)
It means, This is Africa
(HOORAY!!)
(Chorus) 2x
You don't know how hard it is here
The streets is tricky in these parts here
You don't know how hard this is here
The streets need this shit here
[K'naan]
I walk rappers thru the Killa woods ANY DAY!!
They've never been opposite real goons ANYWAY!!
I know all the tricky sticky icky alley WAYS!!
Welcome to the continent of HOLIDAYS!! (Africa)
Where Holidays quickly turn to hell DAYS!!
Stars fall quicker than box of shell CASE!!
No Bill Gates, no PC's!!
Why you cats are debatin' actin' and fakin' these DAYS!!
I deliver what they need like milk CRATES!!
I learned from the deadly streets no REGRETS!!
And I wasn't eva lookin' for a street CRED!!
But these streets bred me to be street SAFE!!
It's no secret we know how to squeeze LEAD!!
But the pre-set is not to have to squeeze IT!!
Used to be at peace now we usE T-SHIRTS!!
And it reads R.I.P. cuz the peace DEAD!!
When I walk thru the slums like NOMANE!!
Little children say K'naan BUMAYE!!
The rap game just got itself a new DAY!!
This is Africa, HOORAY!!
(Hook)
(Chorus) 2x
