Yo, is the Fugees, refugees about to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of people think they 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 a flat comb
But I be the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was style
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate Pray tell me when's the revolution begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's flyin' 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 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 a-be my Celo And when I rest my is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is very And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Knowledge is born, to all the first stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the foolish for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and 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 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 turn on my TV, a dreadlock 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 listen to G Rap Way back when before guns became and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J came with Rock the
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like got the moon, like the men who got the blue the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Zulu Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you 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 know they got the (Black got the vocab) Word, we got the Aiyyo peeps, grab the mic and 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 show you got the 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