[ti:T.I.A.] [ar:K'naan] [al:Troubadour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]T.I.A. (Album Version|Explicit) - K'naan [00:05.99]I hope you got your passports and vaccine shots [00:13.62]I'll take rappers on a field trip any day [00:16.32]They never been opposite real clip any way [00:19.44]I know where all the looters and the shooters stay [00:21.20]Welcome to the city we call Doomsday [00:23.64]Where niggas are just fried chicken like Tuesday [00:28.26]Oh you from the hood huh who say [00:31.56]My Nigerian niggas will call you p**sy [00:34.18]My Somali niggas are quick to grab the Uzi [00:37.24]Around here we only bumpin' Fela Kuti [00:40.31]Tupac or Bob Marley Lucky Dube [00:43.41]So we don't really give a f**k about your groupies [00:46.21]This is Africa hooray [00:49.22]T I A [00:50.35](Hooray) [00:52.29]T I A [00:52.29](Hooray) [00:52.29]T I A [00:57.88](Hooray) [00:59.06]It means this is Africa [01:00.06](Hooray) [01:01.19]You don't know how hard it is here [01:03.31]The streets is tricky in these parts here [01:06.54]You don't know how hard this is here [01:09.44]The streets need this sh*t here [01:12.20]You don't know how hard it is here [01:15.61]The streets is tricky in these parts here [01:19.17]You don't know how hard this is here [01:21.56]The streets need this sh*t here [01:24.32]I walk rappers through the killa woods any day [01:27.99]They've never been opposite real goons anyway [01:30.99]I know all the tricky sticky icky alley ways [01:34.10]Welcome to the continent of holidays [01:36.55](Africa) [01:37.81]Where holidays quickly turn to hell days [01:40.11]Stars fall quicker than box of shell case [01:42.95]No Bill Gates no PC's [01:45.76]Why you cats are debatin' actin' and fakin' these days [01:48.98]I deliver what they need like milk crates [01:52.17]I learned from the deadly streets no regrets [01:53.91]And I wasn't ever lookin' for a street cred [01:57.88]But these streets bred me to be street safe [02:00.87]It's no secret we know how to squeeze lead [02:03.87]But the pre-set is not to have to squeeze it [02:06.95]Used to be at peace now we use t-shirts [02:08.88]And it reads R I P 'cause the peace dead [02:12.87]When I walk through the slums like nomane [02:15.82]Little children say"K'naan bumaye" [02:18.56]The rap game just got itself a new day [02:21.87]This is Africa hooray [02:24.62]T I A [02:25.74](Hooray) [02:27.68]T I A [02:29.30](Hooray) [02:30.75]T I A [02:32.06](Hooray) [02:33.49]It means this is Africa [02:35.12](Hooray) [02:36.62]You don't know how hard it is here [02:38.62]The streets is tricky in these parts here [02:41.89]You don't know how hard this is here [02:45.82]The streets need this sh*t here [02:48.31]You don't know how hard it is here [02:51.06]The streets is tricky in these parts here [02:54.68]You don't know how hard this is here [02:57.48]The streets need this sh*t here