Universal as I stroll down the street
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Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me
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I used to sport a curl made by Jerry
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A Jerry curl
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but as time passed it didn't last
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after my curl I never combed my doo.
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I used to sport a cap but the naps kept shining through.
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Shining!
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My sista got a brand new perm
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my boys says she looks pretty fine body real firm
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folds at her job loves her new touch up
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I can tell her white boss gets a kick when she's all done up.
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My sista loves her blackness
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but the US. says that her perm is her attractiveness.
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But Africa keeps coming stronger-we found out
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it ain't a perm it's a temporary
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Don't heve sash to go to the music school
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no money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba
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my moms had a record player and the 45's
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I put the needle on the record and I kicked it crazy live
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scratching it up catching the breaks
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spirits within me had me do what it takes
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Grammy's I win & one again like my Egyptian kin
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it's Africa within makin' something outta nothing!
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CHORUS: (x2)
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Africa's inside me
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taking back her child
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she's giving me my pride
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and setting me free.
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What's that land across those waters?
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what's that spirit makin'love to my daughter
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telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks
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allowing her the choice to twist her hair & make it lock.
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yo I don't like it, I just don't like it.
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Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin'
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and sooner or later Africa's glory and toil
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will teach an old dog new tricks
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Why and the world can't everybody
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recognize that Africa's in everybody?
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we all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers
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but first we gotta accept who is our mother
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Rather embracer of the jungle
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or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth
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and developments Arrested for nothing
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Gumbo's within' soulful H20 men be droppin'
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Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins
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within' to exist as afro USA...men
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residing in Fulani was once Christian.
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Start fishin' like FOS and found origin!
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CHORUS
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Africa's Inside Me
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| Arrested Development |
