Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to take you on a Into the dimensions of The Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the crew is called And if you come fa tes the rap the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they know me I a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul 'Cause the 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 me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild since I was a 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 the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come from the Word to God, I heard you're kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin' on the
(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 Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off from here to You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I rest my head is on a Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is very And if you don't believe me ask Jacques Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I choose to 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 rapper for he not know how be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, respect to the DJ, be selectin', the type of record ah
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Check it out, we go Back in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be I turn on my TV, it's a for free Kill the gimmick nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they me conscious of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor 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 Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL 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 be-bop From be-bop to
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