Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees to take you on a journey Into the 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 just bring it on,
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they know me I keep a wrap about me I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own '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 to Mogadishu Cause I've been since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back righteous rap was your style
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then Pray tell me when's the will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard I come from the suburbs to God, I heard you're acting kind of hard And you got your skin 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 Aiyyo Praz, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then off from here 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 very And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme vous? A vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the 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 be steppin' Correct and, and kept in, nuff respect to the DJ, be selectin', the type 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 show you got the of gab
Check it out, we go Back in Eighty-three, no one to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and Back in the days I used to listen to G Rap Way when before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got within so it made me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J came with Rock the
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon, the men who got the blue Like the Fu got the Manchu, got the Zulu Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you stop You do the rock-rock from hip-hop be-bop be-bop 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 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, got the vocab Aiyyo, grab 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 know y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab