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!
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 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