Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees about to 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 and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel of melancholy people think they really know me I a wrap about me while 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 rebel base to bass the EQ The wishin' they could send me back to Mogadishu Cause been wild since I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when rap was your style
Now are whylin' so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the then tell me when's the revolution will begin? I on my TV, I check out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm like the that's flyin' like the bird do And things you never heard plus I from the suburbs Word to God, I heard you're acting of hard And you got skin scarred when 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 Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Then cast off from here to 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 tho-rough And if you don't believe me ask Jacques Freres Jacques, Jacques A dorme vous? A vous?
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the fly East to the Five Percenter Knowledge is born, to all the first 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' 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 know they got (Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Check it out, 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 ever 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 when before guns became gats and
Run-DMC used to ask was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they me conscious of what I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous 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 Flash, MC Melle 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, Chaka got the Hawaii got the
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from hip-hop be-bop 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, 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, grab 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 the mic and show you got the gift of gab