Yo, this is the Fugees, about to take you on a journey Into the of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the crew is called And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and just it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel of melancholy people think they really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me to Mogadishu Cause I've wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back righteous rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate tell me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's like the bird do And things you never heard plus I 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 cast off from here to You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the I manifest is very tho-rough 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 how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the type of ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You know they got (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the of gab
Check it out, we go in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or
A rapper, disaster, nobody told me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the days I to listen to Kool G Rap Way when before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I loved P.E., they me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it me a Five Percenter
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 Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the blue Like the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from hip-hop through 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 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 know y'all got the (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, got the vocab 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, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and you got the gift of gab