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Oakland, California rap group The Hieroglyphics and Goapele singing about some kind of Soweto circa 2002.
You can go to the jungle/Go to the city/Visit Soweto/Live in the Bay or/Somewhere in between/But you’ll never be unseen … Maybe I’ll go to Angola or the Gold Coast/And blow smoke with the old folks cause they know most”
H/T Charles Leonard.
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