Africa Dream

"If you can talk you can sing, 

If you can walk you can dance"

That's an old proverb from Zimbabwe

Nah'mean, yo...

"If you can talk you can sing, 

If you can walk you can dance"

Yeah, and the trumpet is blown

Uh... uh... yeah... alright...

Uh... c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon

Alright... wooh!

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Uh... one more time

Yo, anybody can tell you how it is

What we putting down right here

This is how it is and how it could be

Reflection Eternal for real

And with that–

These cats is no match — plus they lack a certain knack for rapping

Chasin' but they never catch the wagon

Like Re-Run in What's Happening

Since back when–

They had potty issues and snotty tissues, we been rockin'

Think you poppin'? Next year nobody will miss you

My thoughts is too advanced for the artists on these labels

They come sweeter than Sabal and softer than mashed potatoes

I tried to told you the rhymes ran over emcees like Land Rovers

And took 'em back in time like Sankofa, Sankofa

We stand over the Atlantic, looking broad like a man's shoulders

The fire is trapped in a belly, ready to pop like canned soda

We outlasted, from Middle Passage

Touched down in New York... Cincinnatay!

Big Ohio status, what you thought?

Money, it's classic, these bastards tryin' to treat us like cattle

So life has been a constant battle – battle

Rising above the crabs in the barrel

Way too used to living in death's shadow

We stay on point like the best arrow – arrow

We hit the target accurate – start shit, back it up

When we hit town, y'all ****, pack it up

That's how we get down, straight smash it up

Like a whip, hydroplaning

Hydro on the brain and maintaining

Game changing into subtle shit, we remain blatant

Yo! Got to tell you to your face

You get replaced in this game

By Kweli – place the face with the name

These cats drink champagne to toast death and pain

Like slaves on a ship talking about who got the flyest chain

Come on!

We the reflection of our ancestors

We'd like to thank you for the building blocks you left us

Since your spirit possessed us, yo, you blessed us

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

We the reflection of our ancestors

We'd like to thank you for the building blocks you left us

Since your spirit possessed us, yo, you blessed us

Thank you very much

And God bless you

And God bless you

And God bless you

And God bless you

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you...

God bless you...