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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
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
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
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free
Africa's inside me
taking back her child
she's giving me my pride
and setting me free