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