Yo, is the Fugees, refugees about 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 come fa tes the rap Stop the and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, kind of melancholy people think they really know me I keep a about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've wild since I was a juvenile profile, back when righteous rap was your 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 revolution begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm the phantom that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're acting of hard And you got your skin 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
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I rest my is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is very And if you don't believe me ask Freres Freres Jacques, Jacques A vous? 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 Cast the first stone, if you you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the foolish for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record 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 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 don't got to for money no more!" and Back in the days I used to to Kool G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Righteous Teacher Got within so it made me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, with My 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 Like Apollo got the moon, the men who got the blue Like the Fu got the Manchu, got the Zulu got the Honolulu
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 they got the (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 know got the vocab (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, got the vocab Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and show you got the 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, they got the Aiyyo, sisters the mic and show you got the gift of gab