Vocab

Yo this is the Fugees Refugees About to take you on a journey Into the dimensions of The Booga Basement The Basement word Uhh Hey yo one two three The crew is called Re Fu Ge ee es An if yu come fa tes the rap stylee Stop the violence and just bring it on wiiild Hey yo I feel kind of melancholy people think they really know me I keep a wrap about me while I'm driving daddy's Audi I pay the toll fighting for my own soul Cause the bourgeoise type of mental sucks like a flat comb But I be baitin the rebel base to bass distort the EQ The devil's wishin they could send me back to Mogadishu Cause I've been wild since I was a juvenile Afro centric profile back when righteous rap was your style Now kids are whylin so I ask the bad black Boogie bandit what's the damage gimme the estimate then pray tell me when's the revolution will begin I turn on my TV I check out Farrakhan on CNN see I'm like the phantom that's flying like the bird do And things you never heard plus I come from the suburbs Word to God I heard you're acting kind of hard And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin on the boulevard You got the vocab I got the vocab Underground got the vocab You know we got the vocab All my peeps got the vocab Yeah we got the vocab Aiyyo Praz grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab Then cast off from here to Mexico You see my four five six a be my Celo And when I rest my head is on a pillow Be ba dee be be dee be be dee be bo You see the skills I manifest is very tho rough And if you don't believe me ask Freres Ja cques Mmmm Freres Jacques Freres Jacques A dorme vous A dorme vous WATCH OUT NOW When I choose to speak I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter Knowledge is born to all beginners Cast the first stone if you feel you ain't a sinner ahh Say o ur father who art in heaven Forgive the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin Correct and stopped and kept in nuff respect to the DJ that be selectin the type of record ahhh You got the vocab I got the vocab The click's got the vocab You know they got vocab Brooklyn got the vocab We got the vocab Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab Check it out here we go Back in Eighty TREE no one wanted to be NAPPY I turn on my TV it's a dreadlock for FREE Kill the gimmick It's nonsense it's no sense or value a rapper disaster nobody ever told me that Roxanne you don't got to work for money no more and Back in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap Way back when before guns became gats and Run DMC used to ask Mary was she buggin I loved PE they kept me concious of what I was saying Afrika Bambaata Poor Righteous Teacher Got within myself so it made me a Five Percenter Say La Di Da Di UHH we like to party but my jam was BDP with My Philosophy Say Grandmaster Flash MC Melle Mel Then LL Cool J came with Rock the Bells See I'm the one for the crew like a Jew is a Jew Like Apollo got the moon like the men who got the blue Like the Fu got the Manchu Chaka got the Zulu Hawaii got the Honolulu I got the rap lieu so skippedy de bop bop you don't stop You do the rock rock from hip hop through be bop from be bop to bee bee You got the vocab I got the vocab Boogie Down got the vocab You know they got the vocab Black people got the vocab Word we got the vocab Aiyyo peeps grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab You got the vocab Yeahh we got the vocab Queens got the vocab You know y'all got the vocab Uptown got the vocab Yeahh they got the vocab Aiyyo bros grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab DC got the vocab Word y'all got the vocab Virginia got the vocab Aiyy I know y'all got the vocab Oakland got the vocab Word they got the vocab Aiyyo sisters grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab