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