Fugees Vocab Hip Lyrics

Vocab Hip Lyrics

originally avail. on the Vocab 12"  

  

 Intro: Lauryn Hill  

  

 Yo, this is the Fugees  

 Refugees  

 About to take you on a journey  

 Into the dimensions of the Booka 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, willld  

  

 Verse One: Lauryn Hill  

  

 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  

  

 [Lauryn Hill]  

  

 (You got the vocab) I got the vocab  

 (On the real got the vocab) You know we got the vocab  

 (All my peeps got the vocab) Yeah, we got the vocab  

 [Lauryn] Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab  

  

 Verse Two: Prazwell  

  

 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  

  

 [Prazwell]  

  

 (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  

 [Lauryn] Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab  

  

 Verse Three: Wyclef  

  

 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-D.M.C. used to ask Mary was she buggin?  

 I loved P.E., 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  

  

 [Lauryn Hill]  

  

 (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  

 [Lauryn] 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  

 [Lauryn] 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  

 [Lauryn] Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab