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