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