Morning to you man, morning to your love
Hey, I say, I say
Africa must wake up, you sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today, yeah now
Well Africa must wake up, you sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today, yeah now
The black oasis, ancient, Africa the sacred
Awaken, the sleeping giants, science, art is your creation
A dream that we could visit, oh Kim it
Your history is too complex and rigid
For some western critics, they want the whole subject diminished
But Africa's the only one
The origin of all the world's religions
We praise bridges that carried us over
The battlefronts of Sudanic soldiers
The task put before us
You hear me out, Africa must wake up
You sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today, yeah now
Well Africa must wake up, you sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, may a better day come
Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today
Who are we today, the slums of Jesus' age
We need that all to fade, we cannot be afraid
So who are we today, we are the morning after
The makeshift youth, the slave ship captured
Our diaspora is the final chapter
The ancestral lineage built pyramids
America's first immigrant
The king's son and daughters from now orders
The first architectures
The first philosophers
Astronomers
The first prophets and the doctors was us
Now can we all pray, each in his own way
Teaching and learning, we can work it out
We'll have a warm bed, we'll have some warm bread
Shelter from the storm dread, and we can work it out
Mother nature feeds all, in farming and drought
Tell those selfish in ways not to share us out
What's a tree without root, lion without toe
You hear me out
Africa must wake up, yuh sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, lest some more love come
Yesterday we were kings, can you tell me young ones
Who are we today
Yeah, Lord
Well Africa must wake up, yuh sleeping sons of Jacob
For what tomorrow may bring, lest some more love come
Yesterday we were kings, l tell yer young blood
This world is yours today
Tatio, tatio, wave gamma, tatire On ninki, tortè, tintra, wa dinkè dire
O telmerki letesso, wa dinkè tunse O tahadnigi tam hai, wa dinkè tohe
Tatio, tatio, wave gamma, tatire On ninki, tortè, tintra, wa dinkè dire
O telmerki letesso, wa dinkè tunse O tahadnigi tam hai, wa dinkè tohe
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
What do you think, y'all?
To everybody out there.
This is Nas, Damian, Molly.
Distant relatives.
We're all distant relatives.
No matter where you're from, where you live,
how near, how far.
Africa, China, Japan, Afghanistan, Israel.
We're all family.
We're all distant relatives.
So that's why we came together.
One of the reasons myself and
Damian came together
is because we all come from one place
and that's Africa.
That's right, you too.
And you.
The whole world.
We're all family.
We just spread out all over the place.
So to all my distant relatives,
let's take it back home.
I said,
well, Africa must wake up,
you sleeping sons of Jacob.
But what tomorrow may bring
may a better day come.
Yesterday we were
kings, can you tell me, young ones,
who are we today?
Yeah, now.
Well, Africa must wake up,
you sleeping sons of Jacob.
But what tomorrow may bring
may a better day come.
Yesterday we were kings,
can you tell me, young ones,
who are we today?
Who are we today?
Morning to you.
Morning to you, man.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.
Morning to you, love.