Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Eric B & Rakim – “Microphone Fiend”

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1988, Alan Edward Gorrie, Average White Band, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Eric B, Eric B & Rakim, Eric Barrier, Follow The Leader, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Key Yemaya Walker, Malcolm Duncan, MCA, Microphone Fiend, Owen McIntyre, Rakim, Rakim Allah, Roger Dale Ball, School Boy Crush, Steve Ferrone, Stuart Hamish, William Griffin

I was a fiend before I became a teen
I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream
Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
’cause I grabbed the mic and try to say, ” yes y’all!”
They tried to take it, and say that I’m too small
Cool, ’cause I don’t get upset
I kick a hole in the speaker, pull the plug, then I jet
Back to the lab …without a mic to grab
So then I add all the rhymes I had
One after the other one, then I make another one
To dis the opposite then ask if the brother’s done
I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine
But I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?

Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays – Nasty Nas – “Halftime”

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1994, Anthony Drazan, Atlanta Braves, Average White Band, Battery Studios, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, Boogie Down, Brooklyn, C.H.I.P.S., Chung King Studios, Columbia, Columbia Records, Crown Heights, D&D, Dead End, debut, DJ Premier, Extra P Large P, G. Byrd, Gary Byrd, Hair, Hair Japanese cast original soundtrack, Halftime, Harlem, Hawaiian Sophie, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop Quotable, Hip-Hop Quotable Wednesdays, Ill Will, illmatic, Jaz-O, John Jay, Jungle Fever, Key Yemaya Walker, keyboard, L.E.S., Large P., Large Pro, Large Professor, Main Source, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, MC Serch, N. Jones, Nas, Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones, Nasty Nas, New York, Oliver Stone, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Queens, Queensbridge, R&B, Ruffhouse Records, sampler, School Boy Crush, Schoolboy Crush, Soul Travelin', The Colour of Love, Triumph Releasing Corporation, U.S., Unique Studios, Vocals, W.P. Mitchell, William Paul Mitchell, Zebrahead

Originally appearing in the soundtrack for the 1992 film Zebrahead.

(Right..) (Right..)
Check me out y’all, Nasty Nas in your area
About to cause mass hysteria

[Nas]
Before a blunt, I take out my fronts
Then I start to front, matter of fact, I be on a manhunt
You couldn’t catch me in the streets without a ton of reefer
That’s like Malcolm X, catchin the Jungle Fever
King poetic, too much flavor, I’m major
Atlanta ain’t Brave-r, I’ll pull a number like a pager
Cause I’m am ace when I face the bass
40-side is the place that is giving me grace
Now wait, another dose and you might be dead
And I’m a Nike head, I wear chains that excite the feds
And ain’t a damn thing gonna change
I’ma performer strange show the mic warmer was born to gain
Nas, why did you do it?
You know you got the mad fat fluid when you rhyme, it’s halftime

(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Aiyyo it’s halftime
(Right..) It’s halftime
(Right..) Yeah, it’s about halftime
This is how it feel, check it out, how it feel