[00:18.23]I was a fiend before I became a teen
[00:20.89]I melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream
[00:23.29]Music orientated so when hiphop was originated
[00:26.11]Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
[00:28.53]‘Cuz I grabbed the mic and try to say, “Yes, y’all”
[00:30.84]They tried to take it, and say that I’m too small
[00:34.01]Cool, ‘cuz I don’t get upset
[00:35.92]I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
[00:38.87]Back to the lab without a mic to grab
[00:41.48]So then I add all the rhymes I had
[00:43.91]One after the other one, then I make another one
[00:46.72]To dis the opposite then ask if the brother’s done
[00:49.23]I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
[00:51.43]But I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?
[00:53.89]I’m ragin’, rippin’ up the stage and
[00:56.01]Don’t it sound amazin’, ’cause every rhyme is made and
[00:59.22]Thought of, ‘cuz it’s sort of, an addiction
[01:02.03]magnatized by the mixin’ Vocals, vocabulary, your verses, you’re stuck in
[01:06.65]The mic is a Drano, volcanoes erupting
[01:09.38]Rhymes overflowing, gradually growingAnnotate
[01:11.95]Everythin’ is written in code, so it can coincide，My thoughts to guide,
[01:17.83]48 tracks to slide
[01:19.55]The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim
[01:22.15]Spread the word, ‘cuz I’m in EFFECTA smooth operator operatin’ correctly
[01:29.54]But back to the problem, I gotta habit
[01:32.40]You can’t stop it, silly rabbit
[01:34.79]The prescription is a hypertone that’s thorough when I fiend for a microphone like herion
[01:40.01]Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix
[01:42.36]Gimme a stage and a mic and a mix
[01:44.66]And I’ll put you in a mood or is it a state of
[01:47.17]Unawareness? Beware, it’s the re-animator
[01:49.69]A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon
[01:52.04]An assasinator, if the people ain’t steppin’
[01:54.70]You see a part of me that you never seen
[01:57.25]When I’m fiendin’ for a microphone, I’m the microphone fiend
[02:00.62]After 12, I’m worse that a Gremlin
[02:02.87]Feed me Hiphop and I start tremblin’
[02:04.98]The thrill of suspense is intense, your horrified
[02:07.68]But this ain’t the cinemas of “Tales From the Darkside”
[02:10.18]By any means neccesary, this is what has to be done
[02:12.79]Make way ‘cuz here I come
[02:15.30]my DJ cuts material,
[02:19.42]grand imperial
[02:21.07]It’s a must that I bust any mic you’re hand to me
[02:23.27]It’s inherited, it’s runs in the family
[02:25.58]I wrote the rhyme that broke the bull’s back
[02:27.93]If that don’t slow ’em up, I carry a full pack
[02:30.58]Now, I don’t want to have to let off, you should of kept off
[02:33.08]You didn’t keep the stage warm, step off
[02:36.38]Ladies and Gentleman, you’re about to see a pasttime hobby about to be
[02:40.69]Take it to the maximum, I can’t relax see
[02:43.25]I’m hype as a hyperchrondriac ‘cuz the rap be one hell of a antidote
[02:47.36]Something you can’t smoke more than dope
[02:48.96]You’re tryin’ to move away but you can’t
[02:50.26]you’re broke more than cracked up
[02:51.78]you should have backed up
[02:53.33]For those who act up need to be more than smacked up
[02:55.99]Any entertainer, I got a torture chamber
[02:58.50]One on one and I’m the remainder
[03:01.31]So close your eyes and hold your breath
[03:03.87]And I’m a hit’cha wit the blow of death
[03:05.92]Before you go, you’ll remember you seen
[03:08.63]The fiend of a microphone, I’m the microphone fiend
[03:10.50]The microphone fiend