Yo, is the Fugees, refugees 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 fa tes the rap stylee the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they really me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's I pay the fighting 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 wishin' could send me back to Mogadishu Cause been wild since I was a juvenile profile, back when righteous rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then Pray tell me when's the will begin? I on my TV, I check 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 heard acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when 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 you got the gift of gab
Then cast off here to Mexico You see my a-be my Celo 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 don't believe me ask Jacques Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme vous? A dorme
out now when I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Knowledge is born, to all Cast the stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in Forgive the rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' and, stopped and kept in, nuff respect to the DJ, be selectin', the type 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 Aiyyo grab 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, it's a dreadlock for the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the days I used to listen to G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., kept me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got within so it made me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Flash, MC Melle 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, like the men who got the Like the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka got the Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so you don't stop You do the from hip-hop through be-bop From 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 y'all got the vocab (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, y'all got the (Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I know got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab