Yo, is the Fugees, refugees about to take you on a journey the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the crew is ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a comb
But I be baitin' the rebel to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me back to Cause I've been wild since I was a profile, back when righteous rap was your style
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the then Pray me when's the revolution will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come from the Word to God, I heard you're 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 we got the vocab (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Aiyyo Praz, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off from to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I my head is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is tho-rough And if you don't believe me ask Freres Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly 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 foolish rapper for he not know how be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, respect 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 Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Check it out, we go in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be nappy I on my TV, it's a dreadlock for free Kill the gimmick nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the I used 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 me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL J came with Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the blue Like the Fu got the Manchu, got the Zulu got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so you don't stop You do the from hip-hop through be-bop be-bop to bee-bee
(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 show you got the of gab
(You got the vocab) Yeah, we got the (Queens got the vocab) You know got the vocab (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, they got the Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
(DC got the vocab) Word, got the vocab (Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I know got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters the mic and show you got the gift of gab