[00:20.73]I was a fiend before I became a teen
[00:23.68]I melted microphone
[00:24.48]Instead of cones of ice cream
[00:26.34]Music orientated so when
[00:27.40]Hip hop was originated
[00:28.67]Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated
[00:31.05]'Cause I grabbed the mic
[00:31.84]And try to say  yes y'all
[00:32.92]They tried to take it and say
[00:35.01]That I'm too small
[00:36.26]Cool 'cause I don't get upset
[00:38.48]I kick a hole in the speaker
[00:39.78]Pull the plug then I jet
[00:41.39]Back to the lab without a mic to grab
[00:44.32]So then I add all the rhymes I had
[00:46.42]One after the other one
[00:47.44]Then I make another one
[00:48.49]
[00:49.10]To dis the opposite then ask
[00:50.70]If the brother's done
[00:51.51]
[00:52.07]I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
[00:54.19]But I don't need a cigarette
[00:55.36]Know what I mean
[00:56.12]
[00:56.63]I'm raging  ripping up the stage and
[00:58.93]Don't it sound amazing 'cause
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[01:01.39]Every rhyme is made and
[01:02.62]Thought of  'cause it's sort of an addiction
[01:04.68]Magnetized by the mixing
[01:07.07]Vocals  vocabulary  your verses  just stuck in
[01:09.48]The mic is a Drano  volcanoes erupting
[01:11.13]
[01:12.17]Rhymes overflowing  gradually growing
[01:14.02]
[01:14.53]Everything is written in the cold
[01:16.13]So it can coincide  my thoughts to guide
[01:19.25]
[01:20.61]Forty-eight tracks to slide
[01:21.58]
[01:22.09]The invincible  microphone fiend Rakim
[01:24.36]
[01:25.12]Spread the word  'cause I'm in
[01:27.68]E F F E C T  a smooth
[01:30.33]Operator operating correctly
[01:31.62]
[01:32.43]But back to the problem  I gotta habit
[01:34.68]
[01:35.29]You can't solve it  silly rabbit
[01:37.27]The prescription is a hyper tone
[01:39.33]That's thorough when
[01:40.32]I fiend for a microphone like heroin
[01:42.37]
[01:42.92]Soon as the bass kicks  I need a fix
[01:45.17]Give me a stage and a mic and a mix
[01:47.71]And I'll put you in a mood or is it
[01:49.95]A state of unawareness
[01:50.83]Beware  it's the reanamator
[01:52.07]
[01:52.96]A menace to a microphone  a lethal weapon
[01:55.32]An assasinator  if the people ain't stepping
[01:57.96]You see a part of me that you never seen
[02:00.35]When I'm fiending for a microphone
[02:02.11]I'm the microphone fiend
[02:03.63]After twelve  I'm worse that a Gremlin
[02:05.43]
[02:05.94]Feed me Hip hop and I start trembling
[02:08.18]The thrill of suspense is intense
[02:10.00]You're horrified
[02:10.78]But this ain't the cinemas
[02:11.95]Of 'Tales From the Dark Side'
[02:13.01]
[02:13.57]By any means necessary
[02:14.61]This is what has to be done
[02:16.19]Make way 'cause here I come
[02:18.05]My DJ cuts material  grand imperial
[02:23.22]It's a must that I bust any mic
[02:24.68]You're hand to me
[02:25.59]
[02:26.42]It's inherited  it's runs in the family
[02:27.98]
[02:28.54]I wrote the rhyme that
[02:29.56]Broke the bull's back
[02:31.03]If that don't slow 'em up  I carry a full pack
[02:32.96]
[02:33.59]Now I don't want to have to let off
[02:35.46]You should of kept off
[02:36.41]You didn't keep the stage warm  step off
[02:38.65]Ladies and Gentleman  you're about to see
[02:41.00]
[02:42.02]A past time hobby about to be
[02:43.87]Take it to the maximum  I can't relax see
[02:45.87]
[02:46.41]I'm hype as a hyperchrondriac 'cause
[02:47.91]The rap be one
[02:48.55]
[02:49.06]Hell of a antidote
[02:50.05]Something you can't smoke
[02:51.56]More than dope  you're trying to
[02:52.84]Move away but you can't  you're broke
[02:54.00]More than cracked up
[02:54.72]
[02:55.54]You should have backed up
[02:56.70]For those who act up need to be
[02:58.30]More than smacked up
[02:59.34]Any entertainer  I got a torture chamber
[03:01.43]One on one and I'm the remainder
[03:03.58]
[03:04.19]So close your eyes and hold your breath
[03:06.22]
[03:07.15]And I'm a hit'cha wit the blow of death
[03:08.66]
[03:09.65]Before you go  you'll remember you seen
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[03:11.95]The fiend of a microphone
[03:13.42]I'm the microphone fiend
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