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 crew is called And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people they really know me I keep a about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel base to distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could me back to Mogadishu Cause I've wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then Pray me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the that's flyin' like the bird do And you never heard plus I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard acting kind of hard And you got your scarred when they was shootin' on the boulevard
(You got the vocab) I got the (Underground got the vocab) You we got the vocab (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I is very tho-rough And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter Knowledge is born, to all Cast the first stone, if you feel you a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You they got vocab (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
it out, here we go Back in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be I turn on my TV, it's a for free the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and Back in the days I used to to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I loved P.E., they kept me of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, with My Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J with 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 Like the Fu got the Manchu, got the Zulu got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from through be-bop From to bee-bee
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You know they got the (Black got the vocab) Word, we got the peeps, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
(You got the vocab) Yeah, we got the (Queens got the vocab) You y'all got the vocab (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, got the vocab Aiyyo, bros the mic and show you got the gift of gab
(DC got the vocab) Word, y'all got the (Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I y'all got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters the mic and show you got the gift of gab