Microphone Fiend (Extended Remix)-Eric B. & Rakim

[ti:Microphone Fiend(Extended Remix)] [ar:Eric B. & Rakim] [al:Follow The Leader] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Microphone Fiend (Extended Remix) - Eric B. & Rakim [00:20.94]I was a fiend before I became a teen [00:23.50]I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream [00:25.89]Music orientated so when hip hop was originated [00:28.02] [00:28.87]Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated [00:30.05] [00:31.22]'Cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, yes y'all [00:33.38]They tried to take it and say that I'm too small [00:36.50]Cool 'cause I don't get upset [00:38.59]I kick a hole in the speaker pull the plug then I jet [00:41.51]Back to the lab without a mic to grab [00:44.45]So then I add all the rhymes I had [00:46.50]One after the other one, then I make another one [00:49.45]To dis the opposite then ask if the brother's done [00:52.02]I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine [00:53.65] [00:54.20]But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean? [00:56.60]I'm raging, ripping up the stage and [00:58.97]Don't it sound amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and [01:02.46]Thought of, 'cause it's sort of an addiction [01:04.21] [01:04.90]Magnetized by the mixing [01:07.42]Vocals, vocabulary, your verses, just stuck in [01:09.69]The mic is a Drano, volcanoes erupting [01:11.29] [01:12.35]Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing, everything is written in the cold [01:16.65]So it can coincide, my thoughts to guide, forty-eight tracks to slide [01:21.42] [01:22.15]The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim, spread the word, 'cause I'm in [01:28.00]E F F E C T, a smooth operator operating correctly [01:30.93] [01:32.56]But back to the problem, I gotta habit [01:35.49]You can't solve it, silly rabbit [01:37.66]The prescription is a hyper tone that's thorough when [01:40.46]I fiend for a microphone like heroin [01:43.17]Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix [01:45.48]Give me a stage and a mic and a mix [01:48.19]And I'll put you in a mood or is it a state of unawareness? [01:50.62] [01:51.22]Beware, it's the reanamator [01:52.48]A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon [01:55.91]An assasinator, if the people ain't stepping [01:57.54] [01:58.12]You see a part of me that you never seen [02:00.54]When I'm fiending for a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend [02:03.79]After twelve, I'm worse that a Gremlin [02:05.76]Feed me Hip hop and I start trembling [02:08.37]The thrill of suspense is intense, you're horrified [02:10.72]But this ain't the cinemas of 'Tales From the Dark Side' [02:13.71]By any means necessary, this is what has to be done [02:16.55]Make way 'cause here I come, my DJ cuts material, grand imperial [02:23.61]It's a must that I bust any mic you're hand to me [02:26.84]It's inherited, it's runs in the family [02:28.98]I wrote the rhyme that broke the bull's back [02:31.49]If that don't slow 'em up, I carry a full pack [02:34.02]Now I don't want to have to let off, you should of kept off [02:36.61]You didn't keep the stage warm, step off [02:39.14]Ladies and Gentleman, you're about to see [02:42.37]A past time hobby about to be [02:44.08]Take it to the maximum, I can't relax see [02:46.99]I'm hype as a hyperchrondriac 'cause the rap be one [02:49.30]Hell of a antidote, something you can't smoke [02:51.96]More than d**e, you're trying to move away but you can't, you're broke [02:54.68]More than cracked up, you should have backed up [02:57.21]For those who act up need to be more than smacked up [02:59.77]Any entertainer, I got a torture chamber [03:02.27]One on one and I'm the remainder [03:04.05] [03:04.81]So close your eyes and hold your breath [03:07.34]And I'm a hit'cha wit the blow of death [03:10.20]Before you go, you'll remember you seen [03:12.40]The fiend of a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend [03:16.77] [03:19.48]The microphone fiend [03:20.70] [03:22.56]The microphone fiend [03:27.53] [03:36.04]The microphone fiend [03:36.70] [03:38.73]The microphone fiend [03:43.00]...