I was a fiend I became a teen I melted microphone of cones of ice cream Music orientated so when hip hop was like pieces of puzzles complicated 'Cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, yes They tried to take it and say I'm too small Cool 'cause I don't get I kick a hole in the speaker pull the then I jet
Back to the lab a mic to grab So then I add all the I had One the other one, then I make another one To dis the then ask if the brother's done I get a craving like I for nicotine But I don't need a cigarette, know I mean? I'm raging, ripping up the and Don't it amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, it's sort of an addiction by the mixing Vocals, vocabulary, verses, just stuck in The mic is a Drano, volcanoes Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing, everything is in the cold So it can coincide, my to guide, forty-eight tracks to slide The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim, the word, 'cause I'm in E F F E C T, a smooth operator operating
But to the problem, I gotta habit You can't it, silly rabbit The prescription is a tone that's thorough when I fiend for a microphone like Soon as the kicks, I need a fix Give me a and a mic and a mix And I'll put you in a mood or is it a of unawareness? Beware, the reanamator
A menace to a microphone, a lethal An assasinator, if the people stepping You see a part of me that you never When I'm for a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend After twelve, I'm worse that a Feed me Hip hop and I start The of suspense is intense, you're horrified But ain't the cinemas of 'Tales From the Dark Side'
By any necessary, this is what has to be done Make way 'cause I come, my DJ cuts material, grand imperial It's a must that I any mic you're hand to me It's inherited, runs in the family I the rhyme that broke the bull's back If that don't 'em up, I carry a full pack Now I don't to have to let off, you should of kept off You didn't the stage warm, step off
and Gentleman, you're about to see A past hobby about to be Take it to the maximum, I can't 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 than cracked up, you should have backed up For those who act up to be more than smacked up
Any entertainer, I got a chamber One on one and I'm the So close your eyes and hold your And I'm a wit the blow of death Before you go, you'll remember you The fiend of a microphone, I'm the fiend
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