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 crew is called And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and just bring it on,
Hey yo I, feel of melancholy people think they really know me I a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel base to bass the EQ The devil's they could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was style
Now kids are so I ask the bad black bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then Pray tell me when's the revolution will I turn on my TV, I out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin' on the
(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, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And I rest my head is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I is very tho-rough And if you don't believe me ask Freres Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I choose to I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Percenter is born, to all beginners Cast the first stone, if you feel you a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the foolish rapper for he not how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, and kept 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 Aiyyo 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 turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever told me "Roxanne, you don't got to for money no more!" and in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I loved P.E., they me conscious of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Flash, MC Melle 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, like the men who got the 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 be-bop 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 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 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, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and you got the gift of gab