Yo, this is the Fugees, about to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just bring it on,
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they really me I keep a wrap about me while I'm daddy's Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental like a flat comb
But I be the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The wishin' they could send me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, when righteous rap was your style
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then tell 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 flyin' like the do And things you heard plus I come from the suburbs to God, I heard you're 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 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
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 tho-rough And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I choose to I'm the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter is born, to all beginners 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, respect to the DJ, be selectin', the type of record ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You know got vocab (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef the mic and show 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 dreadlock for the gimmick it's nonsense, it's 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 used to to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became and
Run-DMC to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, 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 Flash, MC Melle Mel LL Cool J came 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, Chaka got the got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you stop You do the rock-rock 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 Aiyyo peeps, the mic and show you got the gift 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 y'all got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab