Africa Dream (explicit)-Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek

[ti:Africa Dream] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Reflection Eternal (Train Of Thought)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Africa Dream (explicit) - Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek [00:34.08]If you can talk you can sing [00:35.30]If you can walk you can dance [00:37.05] [00:38.26]That's an old proverb from Zimbabwe [00:40.59] [00:42.48]You know what I mean [00:44.20]If you can talk you can sing [00:45.57]If you can walk you can dance [00:47.06] [00:48.13]Yeah and the trumpet is blown [00:50.01] [00:57.26]Yeah alright c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon [01:05.86] [01:07.91]Alright [01:08.19] [01:19.36]Yeah yeah yeah uh one more time [01:31.30] [01:31.84]Yo anybody can tell you how it is [01:34.47]What we putting down right here is [01:35.89]How it is and how it could be [01:38.38]Reflection Eternal for real [01:39.50] [01:40.17]And with that [01:41.08]These cats is no match [01:41.89]Plus they lack a certain knack for rapping [01:43.78]Chasing but they never catch the wagon [01:45.16]Like rerunning what's hap'ning [01:45.87]Since back when [01:47.33]They had potty issues and snotty tissues [01:49.08]We been rockin' [01:49.80]Think you poppin' next year nobody will miss you [01:51.83]My thoughts is too advanced [01:53.00]For the artists on these labels [01:54.26]They come sweeter than sabal [01:55.22]And softer than mashed potatoes [01:56.24]I tried to told you [01:57.68]The rhymes run over emcees like Land Rovers [01:59.27]Took 'em back in time like Sankofa Sankofa [02:01.02] [02:02.27]We stand over the Atlantic [02:03.40]Looking broad like a man's shoulders [02:04.67]The fire is trapped in a belly [02:06.23]Ready to pop like canned soda [02:08.21]We outlasting from middle passage [02:09.34]Touched down in New York [02:10.22]Cincinnatay Big Ohio status what you thought [02:12.69]Money it's classic [02:13.49]These bastards try to treat us like cattle [02:15.24]So life has been a constant battle battle [02:17.17]Rising above the crabs in the barrel [02:18.75]Way too used to living in death's shadow [02:20.80]We stay on point like the best arrow arrow [02:22.33]We hit the target accurate star sh*t back it up [02:24.59]When we hit town y'all niggas pack it up [02:26.54]That's how we get down straight smash it up [02:28.16]Like a whip hydro planning [02:29.23]Hydro on the brain and maintaining [02:30.60]Game changing into subtle sh*t we remain blatant [02:33.02]Yo got to tell you to your face [02:35.34]You get replaced in this game by Kweli [02:37.01]Place the face with the name [02:38.59]These cats drink champagne [02:39.76]And toast to death and pain [02:41.34]Like slaves on a ship talking [02:42.46]About who got the fliest chain [02:43.50] [03:35.45]Yo we the reflection of our ancestors [03:36.91]We'd like to thank you for [03:38.22]The building blocks you left us [03:39.45]'Cause your spirit possessed us [03:40.69]Yo you blessed us [03:41.90]Thank you very much [03:42.92]Thank you very much [03:44.48]Thank you very much [03:45.72]Yo we the reflection of our ancestors [03:47.66]We'd like to thank you for the building blocks you left us [03:50.21]'Cause your spirit possessed us [03:51.44]Yo you blessed us [03:52.42]Thank you very much [03:53.46]God bless you [03:54.29]God bless you [03:55.67]God bless you [03:57.20]God bless you [03:58.51]God bless you [03:59.81]God bless you [04:00.79]God bless you