I was a fiend before I a teen I melted instead of cones of ice cream Music orientated so when hip hop was like pieces of puzzles complicated 'Cause I the mic and try to say, yes y'all They tried to take it and say I'm too small Cool 'cause I get upset I a hole in the speaker pull the plug then I jet
Back to the lab a mic to grab So I add all the rhymes I had One after the other one, then I another one To dis the opposite then ask if the done I get a craving like I fiend for But I don't need a cigarette, know I mean? I'm raging, up the stage and Don't it amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, 'cause sort of an addiction by the mixing Vocals, vocabulary, verses, just stuck in The mic is a Drano, volcanoes Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing, is written in the cold So it can coincide, my to guide, forty-eight tracks to slide The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim, spread the word, I'm in E F F E C T, a smooth operating correctly
But to the problem, I gotta habit You can't it, silly rabbit The is a hyper tone that's thorough when I fiend for a like heroin Soon as the kicks, I need a fix Give me a and a mic and a mix And put you in a mood or is it a state of unawareness? Beware, the reanamator
A menace to a microphone, a lethal An assasinator, if the ain't stepping You see a part of me that you seen When I'm for a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend After twelve, I'm worse a Gremlin Feed me Hip hop and I trembling The thrill of is intense, you're horrified But this ain't the cinemas of 'Tales the Dark Side'
By any means necessary, this is has to be done way 'cause here I come, my DJ cuts material, grand imperial It's a must that I bust any mic hand to me It's inherited, it's runs in the I the rhyme that broke the bull's back If that don't slow 'em up, I carry a full Now I don't want to to let off, you should of kept off You didn't keep the stage warm, off
and Gentleman, you're about to see A time hobby about to be Take it to the maximum, I relax see I'm as a hyperchrondriac 'cause the rap be one Hell of a antidote, something you smoke More than dope, you're trying to move but you can't, you're broke More than up, you should have backed up For those who act up need to be more than up
Any entertainer, I got a chamber One on one and I'm the So close eyes and hold your breath And I'm a hit'cha wit the of death Before you go, remember you seen The fiend of a microphone, I'm the microphone
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