| So what you know about the struggles that my people went through so you can
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| live the way you live now
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| So what you know about seeing that brand new mother givin away her newborn child
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| So what you know about Mr. Amadou diallo, a Senegalese, cops shot down
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| So what you know about how people love to perceive us when we come into a brand
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| new town
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| So what you know about the Goree Island, where all the slaves were shipped from
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| So what you know about being born in America to avoid immigration
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| Still from the ghetto ooohh of Senegal (Africa!Africa!)
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| Comin' from the ghetto ooohh of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Comin' from the ghetto ooohh of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Yes, I’m comin' from the ghetto ooohh of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| So what you know about Thiéboudieune, Yassa, Thiéré and Maafé, my favourite
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| foods
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| So what you know about niggas throwin rocks, bustin' shots at the military
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| invadin my hood
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| So what you know about kids with automatic machines waiting for the war to get
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| on that side
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| So what you know about how God comes first in our lives, everything that we do
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| is for Allah
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| So what you know about that Holy place called Touba where Prophets were born
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| So what you know about comin here, gettin money and investing it back home
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| Right in the ghetto oooo of Senagal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Give it to the ghetto oooo of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Take it to the ghetto oooo of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Send it right to the ghetto ooo of Senegal (Africa! Africa!)
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| Now see that’s just a little piece of how it is (Africa! Africa!)
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| See, but we can come together and make it 'lot better back home (Af-ree-caa!
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| Africa!)
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| So don’t complain about how they treating you here, take your millions of
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| dollars there, back to (Africa! Africa!)
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| We own that land, we own those diamonds, (Africa! Africa!)
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| We kings man, we dont take orders, we give em
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| Think about it |