I was a fiend I became a teen I melted microphone instead of cones of ice Music orientated so hip hop was originated Fitted pieces of puzzles complicated 'Cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, yes They tried to it and say that I'm too small Cool 'cause I don't get I kick a hole in the pull the plug then I jet
Back to the lab without a mic to So then I add all the I had One the other one, then I make another one To dis the opposite ask if the brother's done I get a like I fiend for nicotine But I need a cigarette, know what I mean? I'm raging, ripping up the and Don't it amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and
Thought of, 'cause sort of an addiction by the mixing Vocals, vocabulary, your verses, stuck in The mic is a Drano, erupting Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing, everything is written in the So it can coincide, my thoughts to guide, forty-eight to slide The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim, the word, 'cause I'm in E F F E C T, a smooth operator operating
But back to the problem, I gotta You can't solve it, rabbit The prescription is a hyper tone thorough when I fiend for a microphone like Soon as the kicks, I need a fix me a stage and a mic and a mix And put you in a mood or is it a state of unawareness? Beware, the reanamator
A to a microphone, a lethal weapon An assasinator, if the people ain't You see a part of me that you seen I'm fiending for a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend After twelve, I'm worse that a me Hip hop and I start trembling The thrill of suspense is intense, you're But this ain't the cinemas of 'Tales From the Side'
By any means necessary, this is what has to be Make way 'cause here I come, my DJ cuts material, imperial It's a that I bust any mic you're hand to me It's inherited, it's in the family I wrote the that broke the bull's back If that don't slow 'em up, I a full pack Now I want 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 time 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 away but you can't, you're broke More than cracked up, you should backed up For who act up need 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 breath And I'm a hit'cha wit the blow of Before you go, remember you seen The of a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend
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