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 come fa tes the rap Stop the and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of 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 the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me back to Cause I've been since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, 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 the revolution will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's flyin' the bird do And things you never heard plus I from the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're kind 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 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 skills I manifest is tho-rough And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A vous?
out now when 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 the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee 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 know got vocab (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef the mic and show you got the gift of gab
it out, here we go Back in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be I turn on my TV, a dreadlock for free Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever told me "Roxanne, you don't got to for money no more!" and Back in the I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when guns became gats and
Run-DMC to ask Mary was she buggin'? I P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got myself so it made 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 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, 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 to bee-bee
(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 y'all got the (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, they got the 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 y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab