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 violence and just 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 for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they send me back to Mogadishu Cause been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the then Pray tell me when's the revolution will I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's flyin' like the do And things you never heard plus I come from the to God, I heard you're acting 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 know we got the (All my got the vocab) Yeah, we got the Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the of gab
Then off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I 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 believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter 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 Fugee be Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff to the DJ, that be selectin', the of record ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You they 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 wanted to be I turn on my TV, a dreadlock for free Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever 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 back when guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous Got within myself so it made me a Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J 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 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, the mic and show 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, 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