Lyrics:

I went to Africa
I went to the motherland
Find my roots
Right
Seven hundred million black people
Not one of them motherfuckers knew me

I looked in every phone book in Africa
I didn't find one goddamn Pryor

Only one familiar name I saw was Jabo Walker
I called him up, they said he was in Arizona
So I went to the motherland, it was so beautiful
Just seeing black people in charge of everything
I'm talking about from the wino to the president
It was black
Blue black
Original black
The kind of black where you go "Black"
And landing at the airport in Nairobi, man
Just fill your heart up
You see, you look at all the black people
And you realize that people are the same all over the world
Because people in Africa fuck over your luggage
Just like people in New York

What was funny was seeing white folks walk down the street
And look for each other

And it's great to walk down the street in Africa
'Cause every black person in Africa reminded me of somebody here
They did, man
I'd watch that, "That motherfucker look like Joe Frazier!"
I say "Goddamn!"
Right, and he'd be the president of the bank and shit
You go "That motherfucker Joe Fra- God!"
If Joe Frazier could see this motherfucker
He wouldn't come out of retirement
And you see winos that I knew here
I see 'em in, they be diplomats and shit
Right, you go "What are the wino?"
"Look at this motherfucker!"
"That's what he's supposed to be!"
And you see the women are the most beautiful, elegant people
Like Vogue magazine and shit be trying to work on that shit for years
Just to stand like these people, right
And you be looking, it's just
My eyes was full, Jack I was going
"Goddamn, look at this shit"
And 'cause in my mind, like most people
In my mind I figured Africa is a lot of jungle and shit
You know, Tarzan
Tarzan wouldn't last a week in Africa
Or they'd probably just call him old crazy white man
They go, they say "Where's Tarzan?"
"You mean the crazy white man?"
"He back up in the trees with the baboons"
They say "Is Jane with him?"
"No, she whoring in Nairobi"

And you go into the jungle like in the country, man
I'm telling you it's just
It's something like to drive around
And see all these motherfucking animals and shit in person
'Cause it ain't like at the zoo
They be bullshitting us at the zoo
Right, 'cause you get into the jungle for real
It's the real deal
You look at a rabbit and some tell you
"Don't fuck with that rabbit"
'Cause a rabbit have a different attitude
Like they know you don't belong there, right
They say "Roll the window up, dear"
"I was just a rat"
"Fuck you, roll the motherfucking window up"
I ain't never seen no rabbit look at me like that
Right, 'cause we go in the zoo
We all go to the zoo, fuck with the lions and shit, right
'Cause you see the lion can't get out and shit
They say "Hey lion"
"Hey motherfucker"

But when you see a pride of lions
About twenty of them motherfuckers hanging out
They have a different attitude
Like the lion be in the bush talking about
"Yeah, get your ass out the car

Bring the camera too
'Cause we gonna eat all that shit"
I saw like the lioness, the women do the hunting, right
I saw the lioness, three of 'em hunt down a Cape buffalo
Now the Cape buffalo is the baddest motherfucker on four legs
Except for these bitches chasing it
And the lioness, they be signaling each other, man
And you know they can't talk
And them motherfuckers ease around like that
And one of the buffaloes saw the lioness
And tipped away from the rest of the herd
Didn't say shit
And tipped right into these other two bitches, right
They say "Oh shit"
And went to turn back
And they was on his ass and broke everything
Motherfucker didn't have time to yell "Help"
He said "Huh"
And you know in the movies
How you see the buzzards and shit circling overhead
These motherfuckers drove up in a truck
"Keep the motor running, we won't be long"I saw two cheetah, man
They went after some gazelle
Two cheetah, I mean these are some fast
And it seemed like they were talking to each other
'Cause they was in the bush and the gazelles were over there
And the cheetahs said "You wanna go get these motherfuckers?"
Saying "Nah man, they too close, shit
Wait 'til they get another hundred yards
So how's the wife and family?
Yeah, everything alright?
Yeah, well tourist season gon' open up
Might be able to get her something this year
Shit, I got her all of 'em last year
Yeah, they far enough now, you ready?"
And the gazelle heard the motherfucker said "Ah!"
And the other gazelle said "Run!"
"I can't, I can't move!"
"Tough shit!"
And one of the gazelles put a move on the cheetah
Made him mad too
And the cheetah couldn't stop fast
So he fell over eight hundred times
Got up, "I'm gon' get you motherfucker
Yeah, you got away this time
I'm gon' remember your ass though
Make me look bad in front of my friend"

I saw a giraffe that the lions had got
And the giraffe had got away
And half his ass was eaten off
Just hanging there like that
But the motherfucker had an attitude like
"Fuck it, I'm alive"

Picked up a man hitchhiking, right
An African man
So I stopped 'cause I figured fuck it, it's his country
Motherfucker might see me coming back
He got in the car and this motherfucker had an odor
I'm talking about this man had the odor
And we was driving in the car
And I looked in the rearview mirror
And this motherfucker was looking at us talking about
"Goddamn, they stink"
All that motherfucking cologne and shit
And he put his head out the window and said
"Goddamn, I'ma have to give this up"
He made me pull over
"I'ma go back there, I'ma go over
I'ma go
It's alright, you go
Ooh, you stink motherfucker"

One thing that happened to me that was magic was
I was leaving
I was sitting in the hotel lobby, right
And a voice said "What do you see? Look around"
And I looked around
And I saw people of all colors and shapes
And the voice said "Do you see any niggas?"
I said "No"
Said "You know why?
'Cause there aren't any"
'Cause I'd been there three weeks
I hadn't said it
And it started making me cry, man
I said "Holy shit
All the acts I've been doing
As an artist, a comedian
And the speaking and trying to say something
And I've been saying that
And that's a devastating fucking word
That has nothing to do with us
Like we are from a place where they first started people
In Africa, right
I mean in Kenya
I mean Dr. Leakey, a white anthropologist
I have to say that so the white people believe him
"Oh, that could be true, white"

I mean he found remains of man five million years ago
That stood up and walked on Earth
You know that motherfucker didn't speak French
I mean black people, we are the first motherfuckers on the planet
What else I found out is the fact that
Aside from us being from the original people
So are the white people that we so-called that
'Cause we all family
That's it, jack
And fuck all that other shit
'Cause it don't mean nothing except about some cash
'Cause the black man was the first
Motherfucker to stand on the Earth and say
"Where in the fuck am I?
And how do you get to Detroit?"