“Bad boys making moves like a magician
always on their hustle like a tactician
see the streets, me I say you be average man
one blood, one nation, African”

—  Slim Burna

"Port Harcourt Boy" (track 12)
I'm On Fire (2013)

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Nigerian singer and record producer 1988

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