I'm A African - Dead Prez.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Lavonne Alford/Khnum M. Ibomu
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Lavonne Alford/Khnum M. Ibomu
[00:02.182]Yo, turn this mother****ing shit up!
[00:08.007]Hahaha (Uh)
[00:13.153]Uhuru
[00:17.698]Coupe tete boule kay
[00:19.762]Rwanda, Nigeria
[00:23.707]My nigga Dedan, Abu
[00:29.297]Nigga, the red is for the blood in my arm, the black is for
[00:32.170]The gun in my palm and the green is for the traum
[00:34.417]That grows natural like locks on Africans
[00:36.846]Holding the smoke from the herb in my abdomen
[00:39.484]Camouflage fatigues and dashikis, somewhere
[00:41.914]In between N.W.A. and P.E
[00:44.082]I'm black like Steve Biko, raised in the ghetto
[00:46.642]By the people
[00:47.269]**** the police (**** the Police)
[00:48.392]You know how we do
[00:49.333]Ayyo, my life is like Roots: it's a true story
[00:51.344]It's too gory for them televised fables on cable
[00:53.982]I'm a runaway slave watching the North Star
[00:56.046]Shackles on
[00:56.647]My forearm, running with a gun in my palm
[00:58.763]I'm a African. Never was a African-American
[01:01.480]Blacker than black, I take it back to my origin
[01:04.066]Same skin hated by the Klansmen
[01:05.973]Big nose
[01:06.626]And lips, big hips and butts dancing—what!
[01:08.898]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[01:11.798]And I know what's happening
[01:13.627]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[01:16.474]And I know what's happening
[01:18.720]You a African? You a African? (Louder)
[01:21.385]Do you know what's happening?
[01:23.710]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[01:26.374]And I know what's happening
[01:28.281]It's plain to see you can't change me
[01:31.207]'Cause I'm People Army for life
[01:33.610]It's plain to see you can't change me
[01:36.144]'Cause I'm People Army for life
[01:38.678]It's plain to see you can't change me
[01:41.029]'Cause I'm People Army for life (Louder)
[01:43.615]It's plain to see you can't change me
[01:46.071]'Cause I'm People Army for life (Where you from, fool?)
[01:48.160]No, I wasn't born in Ghana, but Africa is my momma
[01:50.851]And I did not end up here from bad karma
[01:53.411]Or for B-Ball, selling mad crack, or rapping
[01:55.814]Peter Tosh tried to tell us what happened, he was saying
[01:58.322]If you black, then you African, so they had to kill him
[02:00.908]And make him a villain 'cause he was teaching the children
[02:03.259]I feel him, then, was trying to drop us a real gem
[02:05.924]That's why we bucking holes in the ceiling when we hearing
[02:08.301]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[02:11.096]And I know what's happening
[02:13.133]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[02:16.033]And I know what's happening
[02:17.992]You a African? You a African? (Louder)
[02:20.474]Do you know what's happening?
[02:23.086]I'm a African, I'm a African, Uh (Louder)
[02:25.881]And I know what's happening
[02:27.893]A-F-R-I-C-A
[02:30.400]Puerto Rico, Haiti, and J.A
[02:32.908]New York and Cali, F-L-A
[02:35.207]Yo, it ain't 'bout where you stay, it's 'bout the motherland
[02:38.054]A-F-R-I-C-A
[02:40.170]Puerto Rico, Haiti, and J.A
[02:42.652]New York and Cali, F-L-A
[02:45.055]Yo, it ain't 'bout where you stay, it's 'bout the motherland
[02:47.902]This that tank top, flip flop, knotty dreadlock
[02:50.462]****-a-cop hip hop make your head bop
[02:52.892]Bounce to this socialist movement
[02:55.164]My environment made me the nigga I am
[02:57.463]Uncle Sam came and got me and the rest my fam
[02:59.893]Tried to infiltrate and murder off the best of my clan
[03:02.740]I'm not American, punk, Democrat or Republican
[03:05.013]Remember that most of the cats we know be hustling
[03:07.547]My momma worked all her life and still struggling
[03:10.080]I'll blame it on the government and say it on the radio
[03:12.614](What?) And if you don't already know
[03:14.756]All these Uncle Tom, ass-kissing niggas got to go