The album version aka. Fast Blast Club Mix is much longer than the single / video Version and contains a third verse and a feature verse by the swedish singer Leila K.
[Intro]
Yo! My name is Dr. Alban, the MD - microphone doctor
This song is dedicated to the people of Afrika
SweMix - Gimme some drums!
Yo! Afrikan People! Unite
Come together for the sake of your future!
Yo! Afrikan People! Unite!
[Chorus]
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
[Verse 1]
Hello Nigeria! - That's my Motherland
Coming to Sweden now - causin' hysteria
Takes a long time to travel the globe
So why be shy? Why be humble?
I just came straight out the jungle
You can't compete with me
Cause you know I got the rhythm
I did it before and I'll do it again
So listen watcha say, yeah, hear my point of view
Not everyone can do this, in fact only a few Sophisticated, heart created
That's who I am
You know I've been waiting
So start pumping - make some noise!
The Mandika tribe, the Hausa tribe
The Fulani tribe, the Gooya tribe, the Zulu tribe
Mi no live in a house - mi live in a tree
Electricity can give you a shock
Mi no smoke no cig - mi no take no coke
All me take is a glass of juice
[Chorus]
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
[Verse 2]
I'm calling on the big guys from the pyramid top
To join bits and pieces of our Fatherland - Afrika
Cause without boundaries we can move the mountains
Drop your personal individual ambitions
Chase the devil off and purify our Fatherland
Afrikan people, crawl from your vultures, stand affirm
'Cause you are the aura of mankind
You are the dreams, you are the hope
You are the future, you are the past
You are the grandfather of civilization
That is why ANC want old dog to sit
The impossible just takes a little longer
Out of this world and into another world
The earth is spinning round and there's so much to discover
The afrikan man seems to be everywhere
If there are people in the world
Who knows that right is never wrong
Stop the fire burning in my home - Afrika
Martin Luther King, Mandela - you had a dream
Self-evidence and quality for men
Afrika for me and Afrika for you de Klerk
It doesn't really matter whether a cat is black or white
What really matter is to catch the mouse
I'd rather do it in an afrikan way
Hello Afrika tell me how you're doin'!
[Leila K.]
Mmm, jumping on the mic
'Cause me a rockin' up affection
When I'm holdin' me a mic
'Cause me awesome affections
What you say to me? Me a fun and me warm
Spend fi de mi a time on the "tresittia" dime
Don't you try to follow me
You ought to realize it
What me are, what me a really want
Me not fly, no I am just coolin'
Come on now - just et it off!
[Chorus]
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
[Verse 3]
I have been mourning, I have been grieving
I have been crying, no more tears in my eyes
There's a hottie, hottie wind blowing south to north
Following on my head, drying all my plants
If there's a mercy in the clouds
You know right is never wrong?
Move the sadist off my back
And stop the fire burning in my home - Afrika
Here comes the news from mighty Lord
Transqualation is about to come to Earth, right
Rapping is digging down river from north to south
To let milk & honey flow side to side
My name is Alban, mi is a dentist
Mi DJ here, mi DJ there
Mi have a shop on Slojdgatan
Alphabet St. is da name
Mi live in no house, mi live in a flat
Electricity can give you a shock
Mi smoke no cig, mi take no coke
All me takes is a glass of juice
[Chorus]
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Afrika - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Motherland - Tell me how you're doin'!
Hello Afrika (Album Version) was written by Leila K & Dr. Alban & Denniz PoP.
Hello Afrika (Album Version) was produced by Denniz PoP.