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 [00:20.84]I was a fiend before I became a teen [00:23.40]I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream [00:25.79]Music orientated so when hip hop was originated [00:27.92] [00:28.77]Fitted like pieces of puzzles complicated [00:29.95] [00:31.13]'Cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, yes y'all [00:33.28]They tried to take it and say that I'm too small [00:36.40]Cool 'cause I don't get upset [00:38.49]I kick a hole in the speaker pull the plug then I jet [00:41.41]Back to the lab without a mic to grab [00:44.35]So then I add all the rhymes I had [00:46.40]One after the other one, then I make another one [00:49.35]To dis the opposite then ask if the brother's done [00:51.92]I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine [00:53.55] [00:54.10]But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean? [00:56.50]I'm raging, ripping up the stage and [00:58.87]Don't it sound amazing 'cause every rhyme is made and [01:02.36]Thought of, 'cause it's sort of an addiction [01:04.11] [01:04.80]Magnetized by the mixing [01:07.32]Vocals, vocabulary, your verses, just stuck in [01:09.59]The mic is a Drano, volcanoes erupting [01:11.19] [01:12.25]Rhymes overflowing, gradually growing, everything is written in the cold [01:16.55]So it can coincide, my thoughts to guide, forty-eight tracks to slide [01:21.32] [01:22.05]The invincible, microphone fiend Rakim, spread the word, 'cause I'm in [01:27.90]E F F E C T, a smooth operator operating correctly [01:30.83] [01:32.46]But back to the problem, I gotta habit [01:35.39]You can't solve it, silly rabbit [01:37.56]The prescription is a hyper tone that's thorough when [01:40.36]I fiend for a microphone like heroin [01:43.07]Soon as the bass kicks, I need a fix [01:45.38]Give me a stage and a mic and a mix [01:48.09]And I'll put you in a mood or is it a state of unawareness? [01:50.52] [01:51.12]Beware, it's the reanamator [01:52.38]A menace to a microphone, a lethal weapon [01:55.81]An assasinator, if the people ain't stepping [01:57.44] [01:58.02]You see a part of me that you never seen [02:00.44]When I'm fiending for a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend [02:03.69]After twelve, I'm worse that a Gremlin [02:05.66]Feed me Hip hop and I start trembling [02:08.27]The thrill of suspense is intense, you're horrified [02:10.62]But this ain't the cinemas of 'Tales From the Dark Side' [02:13.61]By any means necessary, this is what has to be done [02:16.45]Make way 'cause here I come, my DJ cuts material, grand imperial [02:23.51]It's a must that I bust any mic you're hand to me [02:26.74]It's inherited, it's runs in the family [02:28.88]I wrote the rhyme that broke the bull's back [02:31.39]If that don't slow 'em up, I carry a full pack [02:33.92]Now I don't want to have to let off, you should of kept off [02:36.51]You didn't keep the stage warm, step off [02:39.04]Ladies and Gentleman, you're about to see [02:42.28]A past time hobby about to be [02:43.99]Take it to the maximum, I can't relax see [02:46.89]I'm hype as a hyperchrondriac 'cause the rap be one [02:49.20]Hell of a antidote, something you can't smoke [02:51.86]More than d**e, you're trying to move away but you can't, you're broke [02:54.58]More than cracked up, you should have backed up [02:57.11]For those who act up need to be more than smacked up [02:59.67]Any entertainer, I got a torture chamber [03:02.17]One on one and I'm the remainder [03:03.95] [03:04.71]So close your eyes and hold your breath [03:07.24]And I'm a hit'cha wit the blow of death [03:10.10]Before you go, you'll remember you seen [03:12.30]The fiend of a microphone, I'm the microphone fiend [03:16.67] [03:19.38]The microphone fiend [03:20.60] [03:22.46]The microphone fiend [03:27.43] [03:35.94]The microphone fiend [03:36.60] [03:38.63]The microphone fiend [03:42.90]...