T.i.a. Lyrics - K'naan

I hope you got your passports, 

and vaccine shots. 

I take rappers on a field trip any day 

They never been opposite real clip anyway 

I know where all the looters and the shooters stay 

Welcome to the city we call Doomsday. 

When niggaz is just fried chicken like Tuesday 

Oh you from the hood huh, who say? 

My Nigerian niggaz would call you Pussy 

My Somali niggaz are quick to grab the uzi 

Around here we only bumping Fela Kuti 

Tupac, or Bob Marley, Lucky Dube. 

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

This Is Africa, Hooray. 

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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 

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I walk rappers through the Killa woods any day 

They 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 PCs 

Why you cats debating, acting and faking these days 

I deliver what they need like milk crates 

I learned from the deadly streets no regrets 

And I wasn't ever looking for 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 but now we using T-Shirts 

And it reads RIP 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 

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