Africa's Inside Me-Arrested Development

[ti:Africa's Inside Me] [ar:Arrested Development] [al:Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.22]Africa's Inside Me - Arrested Development [00:01.40] [00:18.67]Universal as I stroll down the street [00:20.60]Africas's a bolling over flowing inside of me [00:23.04]I used to sport a curl made by Jerry [00:24.74]A Jerry curl [00:25.80]But as time passed it didn't last [00:27.38]After my curl I never combed my doo [00:29.31]I used to sport a cap but the naps [00:31.00]Kept shining through [00:32.18] [00:35.00]Shining [00:35.41] [00:36.15]My sista got a brand new perm [00:37.60] [00:38.38]My boys says she looks pretty [00:39.51]Fine body real firm [00:40.37]Folds at her job loves her new touch up [00:42.75]I can tell her white boss gets a kick [00:44.55]When she's all done up [00:45.77]My sista loves her blackness [00:47.05]But the US [00:47.90]Says that her perm is her attractiveness [00:49.88]But Africa keeps coming stronger [00:51.37]We found out [00:52.14]It ain't a perm it's a temporary [00:54.21]Don't heve sash to go to the music school [00:56.35]No money for the guitar or the violin or the tuba [00:58.46]My moms had a record player and the 45's [01:00.59]I put the needle on the record [01:01.95]And I kicked it crazy live [01:03.00]Scratching it up catching the breaks [01:05.51]Spirits within me had me do what it takes [01:07.73]Grammy's I win & one again like my Egyptian kin [01:10.32]It's Africa within makin' something outta nothing [01:12.75]Africa's inside me [01:15.08]Taking back her child [01:16.98]She's giving me my pride [01:19.17]And setting me free [01:21.08] [01:21.82]Africa's inside me [01:24.02]Taking back her child [01:26.00]She's giving me my pride [01:28.33]And setting me free [01:30.46] [01:39.39]What's that land across those waters [01:41.34]What's that spirit makin' love to my daughter [01:43.68]Telling her not to eat he mama's ham hocks [01:45.95]Allowing her the choice to [01:47.01]Twist her hair & make it lock [01:48.22]Yo I don't like it I just don't like it [01:50.31]Papa may say buy my soul is a boilin' [01:52.58]And sooner or later Africa's glory and toil [01:54.44]Will teach an old dog new tricks [01:56.39]Why and the world can't everybody [01:58.61]Recognize that Africa's in everybody [02:00.89]We all ask why can't we be sista's and brothers [02:03.28]But first we gotta accept who is our mother [02:05.41]Rather embracer of the jungle [02:08.48]Or ghetto melanin dwells but could stop growth [02:10.70]And developments Arrested for nothing [02:12.92]Gumbo's within' soulful H20 men be droppin' [02:15.98]Happenin's like Homosapians Hustlins [02:17.51]Within' to exist as afro USA men [02:20.12]Residing in Fulani was once Christian [02:21.89]Start fishin' like FOS and found origin [02:24.09] [02:25.15]Africa's inside me [02:27.09]Taking back her child [02:28.85]She's giving me my pride [02:31.20]And setting me free [02:34.00]Africa's inside me [02:36.04]Taking back her child [02:37.88]She's giving me my pride [02:40.23]And setting me free [02:41.88] [02:43.63]Africa's inside me