Yo, this is the Fugees, refugees to take you on a journey the dimensions of The Booga Basement, The Basement, word 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 of melancholy people think they really know me I keep a about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll for my own soul 'Cause the bourgeoisie type of mental sucks like a flat
But I be baitin' the rebel base to bass the EQ The devil's they could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild I was a juvenile Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was 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 out Farrakhan on CNN see
I'm the phantom that's flyin' like the bird do And things you heard plus I come from the suburbs Word to God, I heard acting kind of hard And you got your scarred when they 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 a-be 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 believe me ask Jacques Jacques, Freres Jacques A dorme vous? A dorme
Watch out now when I to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Percenter is born, to all beginners Cast the first stone, if you feel you 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, 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 Aiyyo Clef the mic and show you got the gift of gab
Check it out, we go Back in Eighty-three, no one wanted to be I turn on my TV, it's a for free the gimmick 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 days I used to to Kool G Rap Way back before guns became gats and
used to ask Mary was she buggin'? I loved P.E., they kept me conscious of I was sayin' Afrika Bambaata, Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five
Say La-di-da-di, we like to but My jam was BDP, My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Mel Then LL J came with 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, Chaka got the got the Honolulu
I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't You do the rock-rock from hip-hop through From be-bop to
(You got the vocab) I got the (Boogie got the vocab) You they got the vocab (Black got the vocab) Word, we got the Aiyyo peeps, the mic and show you got the gift of gab
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(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, got the vocab Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and you got the gift of gab