Yo, this is the Fugees, about to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, Hey yo, one two three, the crew is called 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 really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's I pay the toll fighting for my own 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks a flat comb
But I be baitin' the base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they send me back to Mogadishu I've been wild since 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 will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's flyin' like the do And things you never heard plus I come the suburbs Word to God, I heard acting kind of hard And you got skin scarred when they 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 Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the of gab
cast 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 Freres 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 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, stopped and kept in, nuff to the DJ, be selectin', the type 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
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 it's 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 days I used to listen to G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of what I was Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got myself so it made me a Five 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 got the moon, like 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 stop You do the rock-rock from hip-hop through From 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, got the vocab Aiyyo, bros 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 y'all got the vocab (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab