Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the type of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then Pray tell me the revolution will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom flyin' like the bird do And things you never plus I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when was shootin' on the boulevard
(You got the vocab) I got the (Underground got the vocab) You know we got the (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Aiyyo Praz, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my head is on a Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is tho-rough And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A vous? A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the fly East to the Five Percenter Knowledge is born, to all Cast the first stone, if you you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record ah
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Check it out, we go in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a for free Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to for money no more!" and Back in the days I to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became and
Run-DMC used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J came Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Zulu Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from hip-hop through From be-bop to
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You know got the vocab (Black got the vocab) Word, we got the Aiyyo peeps, grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
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