Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The 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 think they really know me I a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of sucks like a flat comb
But I be the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild since I was a Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then tell me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's like the bird do And things you heard plus I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're acting of hard And you got skin 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 off from here to Mexico You see my a-be my Celo And I rest my head is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I is very tho-rough And if you don't believe me ask Freres Jacques, Freres Jacques A vous? A dorme vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Knowledge is born, to all Cast the stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be Correct and, and kept in, nuff 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 Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the of gab
Check it out, we go Back in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to for money no more!" and in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got myself so it made me a Five 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 came with 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 you don't stop You do the from hip-hop through be-bop From be-bop to
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You they got the vocab (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, they got the Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and 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 the mic and show you got the gift of gab