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 is called ReFugees And if you fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just it on, wild
Hey yo I, kind of melancholy people think they really know me I keep a about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental like a flat comb
But I be baitin' the rebel base to distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild I was a juvenile profile, back when righteous rap was your style
Now kids are whylin' so I ask the bad bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then Pray me when's the revolution will begin? I turn on my TV, I check out on CNN see
I'm like the phantom that's flyin' the bird do And things you never heard I come from the suburbs to God, I heard you're acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin' on the
(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
Then cast off from 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 manifest is very And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Freres Jacques, Freres A dorme vous? A 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 stone, if you feel you ain't 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, that be selectin', the of record ah
(You got the vocab) I got the (The got the vocab) You know they got (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
it out, here we go Back in Eighty-three, no one to be nappy I on my TV, it's a dreadlock for free Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no or value
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask Mary was she I loved P.E., kept me conscious 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, My Philosophy Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J came 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, got the Zulu got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you stop You do the rock-rock hip-hop through be-bop be-bop 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 peeps, grab the mic and show 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, they got the Aiyyo, grab 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 the mic and show you got the gift of gab