Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to you on a journey the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think really know me I keep a about me while 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 base to distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me back to I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when rap was your style
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the then Pray tell me when's the revolution 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 never heard plus I come the suburbs Word to God, I you're acting kind 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 Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the 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 skills I manifest is tho-rough And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme vous? A vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly to the Five Percenter 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 and, stopped 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 grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
it out, here we go Back in Eighty-three, no one to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and in the days I used 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 kept me conscious of what I was Afrika Bambaata, Righteous Teacher Got myself so it made me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J came 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 don't You do the rock-rock hip-hop through be-bop From 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 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, they got the 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 got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters the mic and show you got the gift of gab