Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Basement, The Basement, word Hey yo, one two three, the is called ReFugees And if you come fa tes the rap Stop the and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's I pay the fighting for my own soul 'Cause the 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 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, 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 I come from the suburbs Word to God, I you're 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, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
cast off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And when I my head is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I manifest is very And if you don't me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five is born, to all beginners Cast the stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ah
Say, our Father, who art in the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' Correct and, stopped and in, nuff respect to the DJ, that be selectin', the 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 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 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 Back in the I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of 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, My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL Cool J with Rock the Bells
See I'm the one for the crew, a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon, 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 don't 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 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 know y'all got the (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, got the vocab Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and 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 you got the gift of gab