Yo, this is the Fugees, about to take you on a journey Into the of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they really me I keep a about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat
But I be the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could me back to Mogadishu Cause been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate 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 flyin' the bird do And things you never heard plus I come from the Word to God, I heard you're acting kind of 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 Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off from here to You see my a-be 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 believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Percenter Knowledge is born, to all 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, stopped and in, nuff respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You know got vocab (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Check it out, we go Back in Eighty-three, no one to be nappy I on my TV, it's a dreadlock for free Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and Back in the days I to listen to Kool G Rap Way when before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J came with 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 be-bop to bee-bee
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You they 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 know 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, y'all got the (Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I know y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, got the vocab Aiyyo, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab