Vocab - Refugees Hip Hop Remix

[title:vocab]

[artist:Fugees]

[album:Bootleg Versions]

[00:01:00-00:06:50]Yo, this is the Fugees.. Refugees

[00:06:50-00:09:00]About to take you on a journey

[00:09:00-00:12:00]Into the dimensions of the Booga-Basement

[00:10:00-00:16:00]The basement, word

[00:16:00-00:21:50]Hey yo, one two three! The crew is called Re-Fu-Ge-ee-es

[00:21:50-00:24:00]An if you come to test the rap stylee

[00:24:00-00:27:00]Stop the violence and just bring it on, willld

[00:27:00-00:31:00]Hey yo I, feel kind of melancholy people think they really know me

[00:31:00-00:33:50]I keep a rap-book with me while I'm driving daddy's Audi

[00:33:50-00:36:00]I pay the toll fighting for my own soul

[00:36:00-00:39:00]Cause the bourgeoise type of mental sucks like a black hole

[00:39:00-00:42:00]But I be baitin the rebel base to bass distort the EQ

[00:42:00-00:44:50]The devil's wishin they could send me back to Mogadishu

[00:44:50-00:47:50]Cause I've been wild since I was a juvenile

[00:47:50-00:50:50]Afro-centric profile, back when righteous rap was your style

[00:50:50-00:52:50]Now kids are whylin so I ask the bad black

[00:52:50-00:56:00]Boogie bandit, what's the damage, gimme the estimate then

[00:56:00-00:58:50]Pray tell me when's the revolution will begin?

[00:58:50-01:01:50]I turn on my TV I check out Farrakhan on CNN see

[01:01:50-01:04:50]I'm like the phantom that's flying like the bird do

[01:04:50-01:07:00]And things you never heard plus I come from the suburbs

[01:07:00-01:09:50]Word to God, I heard you're acting kind of hard

[01:09:50-01:12:50]And you got your skin scarred when they was shootin on the boulevard

[01:12:50-01:14:50](You got the vocab) I got the vocab

[01:14:50-01:17:50](On the real got the vocab) You know we got the vocab

[01:17:50-01:20:50](All my peeps got the vocab) Yeah, we got the vocab

[01:20:50-01:23:50]Aiyyo Praz, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

[01:23:50-01:25:50]Then cast off from here to Mexico

[01:25:50-01:28:50]You see my four-five-six a-be my Celo

[01:28:50-01:32:00]And when I rest my head is on a pillow

[01:32:00-01:34:50]Be-ba-dee-be, be-dee-be, be-dee-be-bo

[01:34:50-01:37:00]You see the skills I manifest is very tho-rough

[01:37:00-01:40:00]And if you don't believe me ask Freres Ja-cques

[01:40:00-01:43:50]Mmmm, Freres Jacques, Freres Jacques

[01:43:50-01:46:00]A dorme vous? A dorme vous?

[01:46:00-01:49:50]WATCH OUT NOW! When I choose to speak

[01:49:50-01:52:00]I'm forming the cipher fly East to the Five Percenter

[01:52:00-01:54:50]Knowledge is born, to all beginners

[01:54:50-01:57:50]Cast the first stone, if you feel you ain't a sinner, ahh

[01:57:50-01:59:50]Say o-ur father, who art in heaven

[01:59:50-02:03:00]Forgive the foolish rapper for he not know how Fugee be steppin

[02:03:00-02:08:50]Correct and, stopped and kept in, nuff respect to the DJ, that be selectin, the type of record ahhh

[02:08:50-02:10:50](You got the vocab) I got the vocab

[02:10:50-02:13:50](The click's got the vocab) You know they got vocab

[02:13:50-02:16:50](Brooklyn got the vocab) We got the vocab

[02:16:50-02:18:50]Aiyyo Clef grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

[02:18:50-02:20:00]Check it out, here we go

[02:18:50-02:22:50]Back in Eighty-TREE, no one wanted to be NAPPY

[02:22:50-02:25:00]I turn on my TV, it's a dreadlock for FREE

[02:25:00-02:27:50]Kill the gimmick -It's nonsense, it's no sense or value

[02:27:50-02:31:00]A rapper, disaster, nobody ever told me that

[02:31:00-02:36:50]"Roxanne, you don't got to work for money no more!!"... and...

[02:36:50-02:39:50]Back in the days I used to listen to Kool G Rap

[02:39:50-02:42:50]Way back when before guns became gats and

[02:42:50-02:44:50]Run-D.M.C. used to ask Mary was she buggin?

[02:44:50-02:47:50]I loved P.E., they kept me concious of what I was saying

[02:47:50-02:50:50]Afrika Bambaata, Poor Righteous Teacher

[02:50:50-02:53:50]Got within myself so it made me a Five Percenter

[02:53:50-02:58:50]Say La-Di-Da-Di, UHH! we like to party but my jam was BDP, with My Philosophy

[02:58:50-03:01:05]Say Grandmaster Flash, MC Melle Mel

[03:01:50-03:04:50]Then LL Cool J came with Rock the Bells!

[03:04:50-03:07:50]See I'm the one for the crew, like a Jew is a Jew

[03:07:50-03:10:00]Like Apollo got the moon, like the men who got the blue

[03:10:00-03:13:50]Like the Fu got the Manchu, Shaka got the Zulu

[03:13:50-03:15:00]Hawaii got the Honolulu

[03:15:00-03:18:00]I got the rap lieu, so skippedy-de-bop-bop you don't stop

[03:18:00-03:21:50]You do the rock-rock from hip-hop through be-bop,From be-bop to bee-bee

[03:21:50-03:23:50](You got the vocab) I got the vocab

[03:23:50-03:26:00](Boogie Down got the vocab) You know they got the vocab

[03:26:00-03:29:50](Black people got the vocab) Word, we got the vocab

[03:29:50-03:32:50]Aiyyo peeps, grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

[03:32:50-03:34:50](You got the vocab) Yeahh, we got the vocab

[03:34:50-03:37:50](Queens got the vocab) You know y'all got the vocab

[03:37:50-03:40:50](Uptown got the vocab) Yeahh, they got the vocab

[03:40:50-03:43:50]Aiyyo, bros grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab

[03:43:50-03:46:00](DC got the vocab) Word, y'all got the vocab

[03:46:00-03:49:00](Virginia got the vocab) Aiyy, I know y'all got the vocab

[03:49:00-03:51:50](Oakland got the vocab) Word, they got the vocab

[03:51:50-03:54:50]Aiyyo, sisters grab the mic and show you got the gift of gab