I'm A African (Explicit)-Dead Prez

[ti:I'm A African] [ar:Dead Prez] [al:Let's Get Free] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I'm A African (我是非洲人) (Explicit) - Dead Prez [00:03.05]Yo turn this motherf**king sh*t up [00:04.49] [00:09.75]Ha ha ha [00:11.12] [00:14.30]Rwanda nigeria africa's in the house [00:21.67]My ni**a d r [00:23.05] [00:24.92][verse 1] [00:25.86] [00:30.36]Ni**a the red is for the blood in my arm [00:32.36]The black is for the gun in my palm [00:33.99]And the green is for the tram that grows natural [00:35.92]Like locks on africans [00:36.67]Holdin the smoke from the herb in my abdomen [00:39.61]Camouflage fatigues and daishikis [00:40.55]Somewhere in between n w a and p e [00:42.24]I'm black like steve biko [00:45.82] [00:46.63]Raised in the ghetto by the people [00:48.44]F**k the police you know how we do [00:50.45][verse 2] [00:51.45]Ayo my life is like roots it's a true story [00:53.70]It's too gory for them televised fables on cable [00:55.38]I'ma a runaway slave watching the north star [00:57.13]Shackles on my forearm runnin with the gun on my palm [00:59.88]I'm an african never was an african-american [01:01.44]Blacker than black I take it back to my origin [01:03.75]Same skin hated by the klansmen [01:05.00]Big nose and lips big hips and butts dancin what [01:07.07]Hook: [01:07.67] [01:10.17]I'm a african [01:10.86]I'm a african uhh [01:11.54]And I know what's happenin [01:13.49]I'm a african [01:14.73]I'm a african uhh [01:16.42]And I know what's happenin [01:17.86]You a african [01:19.42]You a african louder [01:21.93]Do you know what's happenin [01:23.61]I'm a african [01:24.86]I'm a african uhh [01:27.11]And I know what's happenin [01:28.73] [01:30.24]It's plain to see you can't change me [01:31.92]'Cause I'm a people army for life [01:33.29]Where you from fool [01:35.49][verse 3] [01:36.29] [01:48.42]No I wasn't born in ghana but africa is my momma [01:50.74]And I did not end up here from bad karma [01:54.04] [01:54.93]Or from b-ball selling mad crack or rappin [01:57.49]Peter tosh try to tell us what happened [01:59.00]He was sayin if you black then you african [02:00.75]So they had to kill him and make him a villain [02:03.13]'Cause he was teachin the children [02:04.94]I feel him he was tryin to drop us a real gem [02:07.37]That's why we bucking holes in the ceilin when we hearin [02:09.69]Hook [02:30.23]A-f-r-i-c-a puerto rico haiti and j a [02:32.53] [02:33.53]New york and cali f-l-a [02:35.53] [02:36.22]No it ain't 'bout where you stay it's bout the motherland [02:38.53](repeat 2x) [02:39.65][verse 4] [02:41.10] [02:48.97]It's like tank top flip flop [02:50.59]Knotty dread lock f**k a cop hip hop [02:52.66]Make your head bop [02:54.53]Bounce to this socialist movement [02:55.59]My environment made me the ni**a I am [02:58.15]Uncle sam came and got me and arrested my fam [03:00.23]Try to infiltrate and murder off the best of my clan [03:03.03]I'm not american punk democrat or republican [03:04.47]Remember that most of the cats we know be hustlin [03:06.66]My momma work all her life and still strugglin [03:08.66]I blame it on the government and say it on the radio [03:12.57] [03:13.39](what) and if you don't already know [03:15.07]All these uncle tom a** kissin niggas gotta go