Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, Hey yo, one two three, the crew is ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, kind of melancholy 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 like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me back to Cause I've been wild since I was a Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate Pray tell me when's the will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the phantom flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come from the 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 know we got the (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
Then cast off from here to You see my four-five-six a-be my And I rest my head 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 Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
out now when I choose to speak I'm forming the fly East to the Five Percenter is born, to all beginners Cast the stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff 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 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 on my TV, it's a dreadlock for free Kill the it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever told me "Roxanne, you don't got to for money no more!" and Back in the days I used to listen to G Rap Way back when guns became gats and
Run-DMC to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was Afrika Bambaata, Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J 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, got the Zulu Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from 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 show you got the of gab
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(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, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab