i'm a african

yo turn this motherfucking shit up!

ha ha ha

uhuru

coupe tete boule kay

rwanda

nigeria

africa's in the house

my nigga d.r. nigga the red is for the blood in my arm

the black is for the gun in my palm

and the green is for the tram that grows natural

like locks on africans

holdin the smoke from the herb in my abdomen

camouflage fatigues

and daishikis

somewhere in between n.w.a. and p.e. i'm black like steve biko

raised in the ghetto by the people

fuck the police you know how we do

ayo my life is like roots it's a true story

it's too gory for them televised fables on cable

i'ma a runaway slave watching the north star

shackles on my forearm

runnin with the gun on my palm

i'm an african

never was an african-american

blacker than black i take it back to my origin

same skin hated by the klansmen

big nose and lips

big hips and butts

dancin

what

i'm a african

i'm a african

uhh

and i know what's happenin

i'm a african

i'm a african

uhh

and i know what's happenin

you a african?

you a african?

louder

do you know what's happenin?

i'm a african

i'm a african

uhh

and i know what's happenin

it's plain to see

you cant change me

cuz i'm a people army for life

where you from fool?

no i wasn't born in ghana

but africa is my momma

and i did not end up here from bad karma

or from b-ball

selling mad crack or rappin

peter tosh try to tell us what happened

he was sayin if you black then you african

so they had to kill him

and make him a villain

cuz he was teachin the children

i feel him

he was tryin to drop us a real gem

that's why we bucking holes in the ceilin when we hearin

a-f-r-i-c-a

puerto rico

haiti

and j.a. new york and cali

f-l-a

no it ain't 'bout where you stay

it's bout the motherland

it's like tank top

flip flop

knotty dread lock

fuck a cop

hip hop

make your head bop

bounce to this

socialist movement

my environment made me the nigga i am

uncle sam came and got me and arrested my fam

try to infiltrate and murder off the best of my clan

i'm not american

punk

democrat

or republican

remember that

most of the cats we know

be hustlin

my momma work

all her life and still strugglin

i blame it on the government and say it on the radio

and if you don't already know

all these uncle tom ass kissin niggas got to go