Yo, this is the Fugees, about to take you on a journey the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the crew is ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just bring it on,
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm daddy's Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The wishin' they could send me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then tell me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's like the bird do And things you heard plus I come from 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 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
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my head is on a Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I is very tho-rough And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the fly East to the Five Percenter 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 rapper for he not how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff to the DJ, be selectin', the type 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 Clef grab the mic and show you got the 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 the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
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 listen to 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 I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, with My Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J came Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like 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 stop You do the from 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 show you got the 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 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 y'all got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and you got the gift of gab