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 fa tes the rap stylee the violence and just bring it on, wild
Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy think they really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving 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 base to distort the EQ The devil's wishin' they could send me back to Cause I've been wild 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, gimme the then Pray tell me when's the 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 you never heard plus I come from the suburbs to God, I heard 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 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 here to Mexico You see my four-five-six a-be my And when I rest my head is on a 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, Freres A vous? A dorme vous?
Watch out now I choose to speak I'm forming the fly East to the Five Percenter Knowledge is born, to all Cast the first stone, if you 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 kept in, nuff to the DJ, that be selectin', the type of 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
Check it out, we go in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be nappy I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for Kill the gimmick it's nonsense, it's no or value
A rapper, disaster, nobody told me that "Roxanne, you got to work for money no more!" and Back in the days I to listen to Kool G Rap Way when 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 Five
Say La-di-da-di, we to party but My jam was BDP, with My Say Flash, MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J came with Rock the
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 you don't stop You do the rock-rock from hip-hop be-bop From 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 Aiyyo peeps, grab the mic and you got the gift of gab
(You got the vocab) Yeah, we got the (Queens got the vocab) You y'all got the vocab (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, got the vocab (Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I know y'all got the (Oakland got the vocab) Word, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters the mic and show you got the gift of gab