Fugees Quotables

[PercyShelley]

Let's list some of our favorite Fugees verse or bars...group or solo...

Professor says what you wanna do? Sell drugs or get a degree?
Looked at him and smiled with 32 gold teeth
And said what you make in a year, I make it in a week
Elementary at the time, I don't think of gettin caught


-Wyclef, Street Jeopardy

I know it's glamorizing drug dealin but whatever, I've always liked this verse...I like the more introspective shit more but I'll just start with this...

[PercyShelly]

Yo, yo, I ain't gonna brag and boast and say I did it all
But I'm the only rapper to play Carnegie Hall
The first rap group video cost a million
First rapper to ever rep for the Haitians
And sak pase, not bootleg
Grammy night, we took 3 away
22 million sold, I can't believe this
There's still ain't a rap group alive who could achieve this

-Wyclef, Oh What A Night

[PercyShelly]

Haha...I just can't stop...Lauryn this time...

Now, now how come your talk turn cold
Gained the whole world for the price of your soul
Tryin' to grab hold of what you can't control
Now you're all floss, what a sight to behold
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
I was hopeless now I'm on Hope road

-Lauryn, Lost Ones


What are some of your favs?

[sabela]

You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And time it turned,
He tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart wouldn't let me learn
From um, some, dumb woman, was I,
And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
My heart must have died a thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less
when my peoples would protest,
I told them mind their business, cause my s*** was complex
More than just the sex
I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed
I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test
I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise MANIFEST


(lauryn in manifest)

[PercyShelley]

I like that verse a lot, she spits with some energy on that one...

I more than just a rhymer, you still a small timer
Hopin that the game treat that ass a little kinder
Every step tango'd
Your beef don't concern me
I'm eatin mangos in Trinidad wit attorneys
My crews slang flow worldwide like a current
Went to every spot where nobody get insurance
Brother do the math you aint half near exotic
My man's claim true you forget about it
like my influence
Well recognized, you a lie tryin do it
Got juice told your lady oops we nuts baby
Smooth and charismatic,
automatic you gonna save me
Godbless the day that my sons survive
We strive to teach the youth baby and stay alive

I love John Forte too...this isn't his best first but it was the first I heard of him (I had The Carnival before I had The Score)...I highly recommend Poly-Sci and I, John

www.freejohnforte.com

[Cierra]

Ooo, contraire mon frere
Don't you even go there
Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare
I dare to tear into your ego,
We go, way back like some ganja and pelequo
Or Coleco-Vision
My mind makes incisions in your anatomy
And I'll back this with Deuteronomy
Or Leviticus, God made this word
You can't get with this
Sweet like licorice,
Dangerous like syphilis, yeah.


L's verse off of how many mics
hot shit

[Cierra]

Behold, as my odes, manifold on your rhymes
Two MC's can't occupy the same space at the same time.
It's against the laws of Physics.
So weep as your sweet dreams break up like Eurythmics
Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile
Whether jew or gentile
I rank top percentile,
Many styles,
More powerful than gamma rays
My grammar pays,
Like Carlos Sanatana plays
Black Magic Woman
So while you fuming, I'm consuming
Mango juice under Polaris,
You're just embarrassed
Cause it's your "Last Tango in Paris"
And even after all my logic and my theory,
I add a muthafucker so you ignint niggas hear me.
And you remember take notes,
As I sow my rap otas
And for you biting zealots, here's a quote.

Zealots

[Moderator]

These quotes are dynamite. Here's some fav's from Lauryn

'Fu-gee-la (global camp mix)'

Fake bullets can't scar me
I can smell the weak out like safari
Play you out like Atari
Sacrifice you Hari Kari
And I'm sorry,
To every single rapper, thingy and Harry
Saying they want to spar me
Cause how thick my repertoire
And my memoir be
Reminding me of eating Calamari in the Khalahari with a band of Rhastafari.
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You shouldn't diss refugees, and
Ha Ha Ha Ha, You whole sound set's bootie , and

Year Of The Dragon

Clef it kind of remind me of this chick I once knew
Use to be a dime now she's strung out in Bellevue
See the serpent played tricks run game like the Knicks
Build you up just to lose the championship.
I seen her reminisce over Wu-Tang could It Be that Simple
She lost her Prince cause there were Thieves In the Temple
Tragic depression made her lose all her teeth
Lost and turned out gave her body to the streets
Sweet Mary don't you weep
Still water runs deep
So be carful of the company you keep

Here's from Clef

Year Of The Dragon

I use to push up on a girl Salt 'N' Peppa Push It Push It
D's in school cause the music was my focus
Jokes in class but when I learned I didn't pass
I knew it was I disagree with my mothers leather lash
Belt buckle said Nelly Nel similar to Melle Mel
Hits the third rail Beat Street made Gazzels sells

911

If death comes for me tonight, girl
I want you to know that I love you
And no matter how tough I wouldnt dare
Only to you I would reveal my tears
So tell the police I aint home tonight
Messin around with you is gonna get me life
But when I look into your eyes
Youre worth that sacrafice
If this is the kind of love that my mom used to warn me about
Man, Im in trouble
Im in real big trouble
If this is the kind of love that the old folks used to warn me about
Man, Im in trouble
Im in real big trouble

Here from Pras

How Many Mics

Too many MC's not enough mikes, exit your show like I exit the
turnpike
Dice and dynomite like Dolomite, double do's been like I don't thingy
Van d**e
Starlight to starbrite the freaks come out at night
Like my man Wyclef-"I wear my sunglasses at night"
And my ponage with martial encourage
Squash the squad and hide their bodies under my garage
And when the cops come lookin, I be bookin to Brooklyn
Beat the trails broken flipping tokens to Hoboken
A clean Getaway like Alec Baldwin
Driving in my fast car playing Tracy Chapman

[Cierra]

I got moxy, I’m so damn foxy
Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi
Full stop, Don’t copy, Just cop me properly
Everybody same policy, universal equality
Responsibility, polity, to survive economically
Some people do it comically, Fruits of freedom, equality
Invest your money properly, people own me apology
Intellectual property, stealing stolen commodity
Souls searching or controlling and robbery, Cold lack of comradere
Clones, Copy-cats bother me, Mine, Own, Blind cats, follow me
Honesty, honesty, honestly, all these jokes are common-league
Puppets with no autonomy
Yup Its Fugees Entirely

L-boogie
Take It Easy

[Cierra]

Pras this time Manifest

Gun-clap Shell cap,
Got them crawling on they back
Come through with the Fu
They be who the F**k is that
It's unpredictable, when my tongue performs like Jujitsu
Cut you with my lyrics, stab you with my pencil
Lethal injection, witness protection
Refugee camp's under investigation
Gunshot bursts in all directions
For the wack MC's we read your revelations
Discharge through your pores
Get raw and kill Boors
I can Capleton when I'm on a Tour
Some manifest, with slugs in they chest
God bless all the Cowboys in the Wild Wild West

[ballagrl23]

So while you fumin I'm consumin mango juice under Polaris
You just embarrassed cuz it's your last tango in Paris
And even after all my logic and my theory
I add a mother f**k*r so you ignorant niggas hear me

[soundboy]

sabelagomez said:

You see I loved hard once, but the love wasn't returned
I found out the man I'd die for, he wasn't even concerned
And time it turned,
He tried to burn me like a perm
Though my eyes saw the deception, My heart wouldn't let me learn
From um, some, dumb woman, was I,
And everytime he'd lie, he would cry and inside I'd die.
My heart must have died a thousand deaths
Compared myself to Toni Braxton thought I'd never catch my breath
Nothing left, he stole the heart beating from my chest
I tried to call the cops, that type of thief you can't arrest
Pain suppressed, will lead to cardiac arrest
Diamonds deserve diamonds, but he convinced me I was worth less
when my peoples would protest,
I told them mind their business, cause my s*** was complex
More than just the sex
I was blessed, but couldn't feel it like when I was caressed
I'd spend nights clutching my breasts overwhelmed by God's test
I was God's best contemplating death with a Gillette
But no man is ever worth the paradise MANIFEST


(lauryn in manifest)

This would be the 1 i choose to,

Also at the end of doo wop live, lauryn sings

things dun changed, and u no they not ready

people dun changed, and u no they gone crazy