Africa's Inside Me

Arrested Development

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!

CHORUS: (x2)

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 Hust