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 crew is ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and just it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy think they really know me I a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own 'Cause the bourgeoisie of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel base to bass the EQ The devil's wishin' they send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back righteous rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then 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 I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're 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, grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
cast off from here to Mexico 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 don't believe me ask Freres Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five 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 foolish rapper for he not know how be steppin' Correct and, and kept in, nuff respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the type of 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 it's nonsense, it's no or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever told me "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the days I used to to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous Got within myself so it me a Five 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 came Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon, the men who got the blue the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Zulu Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so you don't stop You do the rock-rock hip-hop through be-bop From be-bop to
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You know got the vocab (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 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 show you got the of gab