Yo turn this motherfucking shit up!
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Ha ha ha
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Rwanda, Nigeria, Africa's in the house
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My nigga D.R.
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[Verse 1]
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Nigga the red is for the blood in my arm
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The black is for the gun in my palm
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And the green is for the tram that grows natural
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Like locks on Africans
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Holdin the smoke from the herb in my abdomen
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Camouflage fatigues, and daishikis
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Somewhere in between N.W.A. and P.E.
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I'm black like Steve Biko
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Raised in the ghetto by the people
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Fuck the police you know how we do
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[Verse 2]
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Ayo my life is like Roots it's a true story
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It's too gory for them televised fables on cable
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I'ma a runaway slave watching the north star
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Shackles on my forearm , runnin with the gun on my palm
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I'm an African , never was an African-American
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Blacker than black I take it back to my origin
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Same skin hated by the klansmen
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Big nose and lips, big hips and butts, dancin, what
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HOOK:
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I'm a African
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I'm a African, uhh
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And I know what's happenin
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I'm a African
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I'm a African, uhh
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And I know what's happenin
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You a African?
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You a African?, louder
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Do you know what's happenin?
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I'm a African
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I'm a African, uhh
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And I know what's happenin
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It's plain to see, you cant change me
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cuz I'm a people army for life
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Where you from fool?
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[Verse 3]
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No I wasn't born in Ghana, but Africa is my momma
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And I did not end up here from bad karma
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Or from B-Ball, selling mad crack or rappin
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Peter Tosh try to tell us what happened
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He was sayin if you black then you African
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So they had to kill him, and make him a villain
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Cuz he was teachin the children
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I feel him, he was tryin to drop us a real gem
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That's why we bucking holes in the ceilin when we hearin
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HOOK
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A-F-R-I-C-A, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and J.A.
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New York and Cali, F-L-A
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No it aint 'bout where you stay, it's bout the motherland
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(repeat 2X)
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[Verse 4]
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It's like tank top, flip flop
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Knotty dread lock, fuck a cop, hip hop
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Make your head bop
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Bounce to this, socialist movement
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My environment made me the nigga I am
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Uncle Sam came and got me and arrested my fam
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Try to infiltrate and murder off the best of my clan
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I'm not American, punk, Democrat, or Republican
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Remember that, most of the cats we know, be hustlin
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My momma work, all her life and still strugglin
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I blame it on the government and say it on the radio
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(What) and if you don't already know
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All these Uncle Tom ass kissin niggas gotta go
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I'm a African
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| Dead Prez |
