Tragedy Khadafi/Intelligent Hoodlum - Microphone Check video free download

Track 8 off of Tragedy Khadafi's debut album Intelligent Hoodlum (1990). Produced by Marley Marl.

Lyrics:

(One-two microphone check one-two)

I'm slippin syllables, wiser than Salomon

So yo, pass the mic, so I can rock the Metropolitan

I write just like a novelist, no one's as hard as this

Step from the stage, because I'm sparkin it like Spartacus

Phonics, will flow, just like the Phoenix

I'm pickin up the planet, then I'm droppin it like Venus

With drama, drama, state of the art

So dance to my record till death do us part

It's Fatal, my partner in crime, but not a crook

And yo, I'm droppin science like a school text book

I'm not the batman, but I'm the man that's black

I'm kickin crazy vocals, cause I'm makin crazy track

I can't sing, but if I could sing, I'd sing soprano

Yo, this beat is chunky, and it's funky with piano

Sports, I never play sports, I'm not athletic

I'm pickin up the pen to make my poetry poetic

Some brothers tried to stop me, but yo, I didn't let em

The mic is like a gun, and if they front I'm gonna wet em

Supervise em, the indicator

My DJ is capable of cutting any fader

It's Trag, I'm livin large, swell and chunky

Yo, this sure is funky

I'm havoc, Tragedy tragic

Marley's motivatin the mix just like Magic

So jump on my train, the stops are goin local

I'm makin crazy track, because I'm kickin crazy vocals

When you see me, don't call me Trag, just call me mister

I'm harder than your father, plus I'm pretty like your sister

So please, shut the fuck up when I'm speakin

I'm asiatic, DJ Fatal's puertorican

Smooth, I'm smoother than smooth this style's perfected

Slow, I'm slower than slow, and yet effective

More than talented. blessed with this potential

Yo, my name's not Ed, but this rap is kinda Special

Stop me, but if you could stop me, then you would stop me

Yo, rap is a game, and I play it just like Monopoly

Brothers, brothers on the block say that I'm losin it

Done, but if you could do, then you'd be doin it

So sleep, but please don't snore when I'm talkin

Sleep, you could keep sleepin and sleepwalkin

Trag, but Trag won't sleep, cause I'm awoken

I'm smart, my spartanic speech is outspoken

I'm strong, like Samson, some say I'm handsome

I grab the mic, and then I hold it like a ransom

I'm large, fat, swell, I'm livin chunky

Yo, this sure is funky