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