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