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 is called ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just bring it on,
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people they really know me I a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me to Mogadishu Cause I've been since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, when righteous rap was your style
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad Boogie bandit, what's the damage, the estimate then tell me when's the revolution 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 you're kind of hard And you got your 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 you got the gift of gab
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my 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 me ask Freres Jacques Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme A dorme vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Percenter 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 foolish for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, 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 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, a dreadlock for free the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Percenter
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, with My Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J came 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 got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so you don't stop You do the from hip-hop through be-bop From be-bop to
(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, got the vocab Aiyyo, bros 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 y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the of gab