Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to take you on a Into the 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 wrap me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll for my own soul the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The devil's they could send me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when rap was your style
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad 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 the phantom that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come the suburbs Word to God, I 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 my Celo And when I rest my 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 believe me ask Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly 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 for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and 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 they 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 to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a for free Kill the gimmick nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody ever me that "Roxanne, you got to work 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 used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me of what I was sayin' Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it me a Five 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 Rock the
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Apollo 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 rock-rock from hip-hop 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 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, grab the mic and show you got the gift 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 grab the mic and show you got the of gab