Africa Dream
Talib Kweli

If you can talk you can sing

If you can walk you can dance

That's an old proverb from Zimbabwe

You know what I mean

If you can talk you can sing

If you can walk you can dance

Yeah, and the trumpet is blown

Yeah, alright, see'mon, see'mon, see'mon, see'mon

Alright, Wooh!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, one more time

Yo, anybody can tell you how it is

What we putting down right here 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

Chasing but they never catch the wagon

Like rerunning what's hap'ning

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 run over emcees like Land Rovers

Took 'em back in time like Sam Kofa, Sam Kofa

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 outlasting, from middle passage

Touched down in New York

Cincinnatay! Big Ohio status what you thought

Money it's classic these bastards try 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

Star shit, back it up

When we hit town, why'all niggas 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 and toast to death and pain

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

Yo, we the reflection of our ancestors

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

Cause your spirit possessed us

Yo, you blessed us

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Thank you very much

Yo, we the reflection of our ancestors

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

Cause your spirit possessed us

Yo, you blessed us

Thank you very much

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you

God bless you


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Lyrics by Talib Kweli

  \   2000 Seasons   A Game   A Game   Abra Cadabra   After The Rain   Ain\u2019t Waiting   Around My Way   Around My Way   Art Imitates Life   Astronomy (8th Light)   Back Again   Back It Up   Back Up Offa Me   Back Up Offa Me   Ballad Of The Black Gold   Beast   Beautiful Struggle   Before He Walked   Big Nel from Da Natti   Black Girl Pain   Bridge To Bama(HI Tek Remix)   Brown Skin Lady   Celebration Flow   Chaos   Children's Story   City Playgrounds   Cold Rain   Colors Of You   Come Here   Come Here feat. Miguel   Country Cousins   Definition   Delicate Flowers   Demonology   Distractions   Down For The Count   Drugs, Basketball & Rap   Due Process [Instrumental]   Eat to Live   Eternalists   Everything Man   Everywhere I Go   Expansion Dedication   Favela Love   Favela Love feat. Seu Jorge   Fly That Knot   Friends & Family   Fuck The Money   Funny Money   Game   Get Back Pt. II   Get By   Ghetto Afterlife   Ghetto Show   Ghetto Show - Anthony Hamilton   Go With Us   Going Hard   Good Mourning   Good to You   Got Work   Great Expectations   Guerilla Monsoon Rap   Guerrilla Monsoon Rap   Gun Music   Gutter Rainbows   Hamster Wheel   Hater Players   Hell   High Life feat. Rubix Cube & Bajah   Hold It Now   Holy Moly   Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt1 (Deliver Us)   Hostile Gospel, Pt2 (Deliver Me)   Hot Thing   How You Love Me   I Try   I Try   I Try   I Try - Mary Jblige   I Try [Instrumental]   I\u2019m On One   In the Mood   In The Red   In This World   Inner Monologue   Intro   It Only Gets Better   It's Like That   Joy   Just Begun (Ft. Jay Electronica, J Cole & Mos Def)   K.o.s. (determination)   Keynote Speaker   Kindness for Weakness   Let Me See (Remix)   Lifting Off   Listen   Listen!!!   Lonely People   Long Hot Summer   Lord Of The Light   Love Language   Lover's Peak   Make It Classy   Memories Live   Midnight Hour   Mood Swing   More or Less   Move Somethin'   Move Something   Ms Hill   Ms. Hill   My Life   Name Of The Game   Nature   Never Been In Love   New Leaders   Niggas Lie Alot   NY Weather Report   Old School   On My Way   Outstanding   Palookas   Perfect Beat   Purest Hearts   Push Thru   Put It In The Air   Raise the Bar   Rare Portraits   Ready Set Go   Ready Set Go feat. Melanie Fiona   Real Women   Respiration   Right About Now   Rocket Ships   Rocket Ships feat. Busta Rhymes   Rush   Say Something   Self Savior   Sharp Shooters   Sharp Shooters   Shock Body   So Good   So Low   Some Kind Of Wonderful   Soon A New Day   Soon the New Day   Soul Music   Space Fruit   Space Fruit (Interlude)   Stand to the Side   State of Grace   Stay Around   Strangers   Supreme, Supreme   Talib Kweli Come Here feat. Miguel. Off of Talib ...   Talk To You (lil' Darlin')   Tater Tot   Testify   The Beast   The Blast   The Nature   The Nature (Feat. Justin Timberlake)   The Nature [*]   The Perfect Beat   The Proud   The Show   The Wormhole   Theives In The Night   This Means You   This Means You (Ft. Mos Def)   Too Late   Twice Inna Lifetime   Two & Two   Uh Oh   Upper Echelon   Violations   Wait For You   Waitin' For The Dj   We Got the Beat   We Got the Beat   We Know   We Know - Faith Evans   What I Feel   What's Real   Where Do We Go   Work It Out   Work It Out

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