T.I.A. - K'NAAN

I take rappers on a field trip any day

They never been opposite real clip anyway

I know where all the looters and the shooters stay

Welcome to the city we call Doomsday

When niggas is just fried chicken like Tuesday

Oh you from the hood huh, who say

My Nigerian niggas would call you Pussy

My Somali niggas are quick to grab the uzi

Around here we only bumpin' Fela Kuti

2Pac, or Bob Marley, Lucky Dube

So we don’t really give a fuck about your groupies

This Is Africa, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

It means, This Is Africa, hooray

You don’t know how hard it is here

The streets is tricky in these parts here

You don’t know how hard this is here

The streets need this shit here

I walk rappers through the Killa hoods any day

They never been opposite real goons anyway

I know all the tricky sticky icky alley ways

Welcome to the continent of holidays, Africa

Where holidays quickly turn to hell days

Stars fall quicker than box of shell case

No Bill Gates, No PCs

Why you cats debating, acting and faking these days

I deliver what they need like milk crates

I learned from the deadly streets no regrets

And I wasn’t ever looking for street cred

But these streets bred me to be street safe

It’s no secret we know how to squeeze lead

But the Pre-set is not to have to squeeze it

Used to be at peace but now we using t-shirts

And it reads RIP cause the peace dead

When I walk through the slums like Nomane

Little children say K’naan Bomaye

The rap game just got itself a new day

This is Africa, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

T.I.A, hooray

It means, This Is Africa