[JoJo]

Blow blow blow!  The microphone fiend..

The microphone fiend.. the microphone fiend..



I was a fiend - the neighborhood called it a pipe dream

My early teens, meltin microphones like ice cream

My life scheme, I was starvin to make it

Wanna know how I pulled it off?  COMPLICATED

See I grabbed the mic until the game sound sure

Frontin on the skintone, he said the kid ain't raw

COOL - see I don't get upset

I "Move the Crowd" without breakin a sweat, and I jet

(and I jet) back to the lab, to put the thoughts on pad

To steam a twenty bag and let the track drag

Punchlines accumulate; the engineers cue DATs

I hit the vocal booths, and it's a wrap (and it's a wrap)

Flee the scene in a big black truck, lookin mean

Caress the wheel with a cool scene lean, KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

(Know what I mean) Natural, do it off the top of the head

Got a famous mug, ladies wanna hop in the bed

Name spread quick like nasty rumors, MC's get brain tumors

I'm Anthony Sr., they Jackie Jr.'s

It's a great world and Violator is my team

Staten supreme, I'm the "Microphone Fiend"



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The invincible, microphone fiend Pellegrino

I make the stage glow, rhymes are like death blows

Strikin rappers pressure points, one at a time

I'm stealin your light; technically you runnin your shine

(you runnin your shine) Words connect like a shot to the chin

Remain cool as a breeze MC's are "Gone With the Wind" and I'm in

E, F-F-E-C-T

The rap Frank Sinatra representin correctly (representin correctly)

Back to the problem - you see I live for the mic

Fiend daily plus I'm bingin at night

Dawg by any means necessary this is what has to be done

Make way, cause here I come

You see a part of me you never seen

When I'm fiendin for the microphone, I'm the "Microphone Fiend"

On the come up; slide the clips in to throw the guns up

Move dirty like a dumptruck

Chain swing like a numchuk, flow tighter than some lugnuts

Put my work in to max in the cut

Keep the great world spinnin and Violator is my team

Staten supreme, I'm the "Microphone Fiend"



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[JoJo] The "Microphone Fiend"

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It's a must that I'll bust any mic you hand to me

I kick a freestyle the people lose sanity

The envious wanna stick him and push his wig back

Negative - I carry a full pack (a full pack)

Now I don't wanna have to let off, and take your head off

or boxcut some of your flesh off - STEP OFF (step off)

Ladies and gentlemen - what you're about to see

A tank(?) kid finesse the rap game properly

Any MC or rhymer, nobody gets more liver

It's my +Destiny, Child+ I'm a "Survivor"

Spit fire hotter than lava; battle me

that's like playin Russian Roulette, with six in the revolver

Pretty boy but JoJo get ugly when he cramped in

Regardless of the fact the women love him with a passion (passion)

It's a great world and Violator is my team

Staten supreme, I'm the "Microphone Fiend"



[Eric B. and Rakim scratched in]

[JoJo] The "Microphone Fiend"

[JoJo] Yeah yeah, the "Microphone Fiend"



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