Yo, is the Fugees, refugees about to take you on a journey Into the of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the violence and bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they really me I keep a wrap about me I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul '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' could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild since I was a Afro-centric profile, when righteous rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate tell me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I 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 you're acting kind of And you got your skin scarred when they was 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, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I rest my head is on a Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the I manifest is very tho-rough And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I choose to I'm forming the cipher fly to the Five Percenter is born, to all beginners Cast the first stone, if you feel you a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and kept in, 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 Clef grab the mic and show you got the 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, no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and Back in the days I used to 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 so it made me a Five Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL J came with Rock the Bells
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 through From be-bop to
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You know 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, they got the 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 know y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab