เพลง T.I.A. (Album Version|Explicit)

T.I.A. - K'naan

I hope you got your passports, and vaccine shots

I'll take rappers on a field trip any day

They never been opposite real clip any way

I know where all the looters and the shooters stay

Welcome to the city we call Doomsday

Where niggas are just fried chicken like Tuesday

Oh, you from the hood, huh, who say?

My Nigerian niggas will call you pussy

My Somali niggas are quick to grab the Uzi

Around here we only bumpin' Fela Kuti

Tupac or Bob Marley, Lucky Dube

So we don't really give a fuck about your groupies

This is Africa, hooray

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

It means, this is Africa

(Hooray)

You don't know how hard it is here

The streets is tricky in these parts here

You don't know how hard this is here

The streets need this shit here

You don't know how hard it is here

The streets is tricky in these parts here

You don't know how hard this is here

The streets need this shit here

I walk rappers through the killa woods any day

They've never been opposite, real goons anyway

I know all the tricky, sticky, icky alley ways

Welcome to the continent of holidays

(Africa)

Where holidays quickly turn to hell days

Stars fall quicker than box of shell case

No Bill Gates, no PC's

Why you cats are debatin', actin' and fakin' these days?

I deliver what they need like milk crates

I learned from the deadly streets, no regrets

And I wasn't ever lookin' for a street cred

But these streets bred me to be street safe

It's no secret we know how to squeeze lead

But the pre-set is not to have to squeeze it

Used to be at peace now we use t-shirts

And it reads R.I.P. 'cause the peace dead

When I walk through the slums like nomane

Little children say, "K'naan bumaye"

The rap game just got itself a new day

This is Africa, hooray

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

T.I.A.

(Hooray)

It means, this is Africa

(Hooray)

You don't know how hard it is here

The streets is tricky in these parts here

You don't know how hard this is here

The streets need this shit here

You don't know how hard it is here

The streets is tricky in these parts here

You don't know how hard this is here

The streets need this shit here