"Sang Fezi"
An Interpretation

Refrain (2x):
There are Haitians who say you can walk through New York without a gun, I ask you sir, is it true? When the bums get you, they mug you and the police don't come until you're dead. I ask you sir, is it true?

Verse 1
My woman stays on Flatbush, I see a policeman coming, He tells me "You sell drugs," I tell him "My friend, your lying." He starts to check me and I tell him that I don't have anything, I was just on my way to this little bar to check out some zin.
Big-up, big-up my spirits, I see Tabou Combo, if this happened since the party, I wonder where my people are? I drink my little dry drink, I run when they open the doors, pass through a cemetery and see a headless corpse. ABCDEFG, if you want to battle me it's dangerous, I'm like Pele in soccer, always score the last shot.
Don't talk shit about my Moms, Moms is Kreol, my gun is aimed at you, you can't aim cause of the alcohol. Original Haitian. Quoi de buken? There's people who think I'm from Brooklyn, but I'm Haitian born Quoi de buken? Quoi de buken? Listen!

Refrain (2x)

Verse 2 Your President, I don't want to be your President, but pass me the microphone and I'm your government, my name is Wyclef, they call me Fanfan, I have a little sister they call Rosalon, I have a horse that flies each night, I have nappy hair, I don't want silky hair, Haitian Bad Boy from Haiti, soon as I have a problem I pull out my uzi. I had problems in school, the Americans picked on me, they called me nigger boy, they called me bastard nigger. The way they spoke I knew they weren't civilized, the way they spoke I knew they didn't know God. 45 times plus I had (could mean "got jumped": sticky feet, pied cole), if some guy tries me I'll pop both his eye balls. Original Haitian that comes from Jerusalem, if some guy tests me this year, you don't think he'll regret it?

Refrain (2x)

Bridge: Where are my people? I don't see my people.

Verse 3
Man, you should know that one day we all go, so keep your head to the sky! See the path we refuse, is the path we should choose, you can't take a walk when you die.
Haitians shoot! (or "a Haitian's been shot!")
Encore, encore (8x)
There are Haitians who say you can walk without a gun.
Verse 3 repeated
Raise your hands (2x)
Sing, sing (2x)

Refrain

"There's something they tell me,"
"What's that?"
"That Petionville girls don't want guys with nappy hair,"
"What do you expect?"
"Well, I have nappy hair."§