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 ReFugees 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 a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the fighting for my own soul 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 back to Cause been wild since I was a juvenile profile, back when righteous rap was your style
Now kids are so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, the damage, gimme the estimate then Pray 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 from the suburbs Word to God, I you're acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred they 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
Then off from here to Mexico You see my four-five-six my Celo And I rest my head is on a pillow Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be,
You see the skills I is very tho-rough And if you believe me ask Freres Jacques Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the fly East 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 rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin' and, stopped and kept 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 they got vocab (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the of gab
it out, here we go Back in Eighty-three, no one to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, no sense or value
A rapper, disaster, ever told me that "Roxanne, you don't got to work for no more!" and Back in the days I to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when 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 Righteous 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 with 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 the Fu got the Manchu, Chaka 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 be-bop to bee-bee
(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 got the vocab (Uptown got the vocab) Yeah, they got the Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and show you got the 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, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and you got the gift of gab