If it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, a check a one two  If it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - a check two, a mic a check two  If it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, a check a one two  if it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, and I'm a check you    I start most of my raps off kinda slow  just so you could see exactly where it gonna go  I make sure your body's strapped in  cause I'ma tailspin and you're liable to get thrown  The bible is the microphone; I read from the scripture  leave it up to you to see the pictures  I hover above MC's like a flying saucer  with the sorcery to alter the future   present and the past, don't be hesitant to ask  me to be the man I'll be the last  I'll be movin fast on that ass, I stipulate your fate   I take a grip I'll take a shot I'll break your plates  Now can you take the weight or do I have to make it lighter tighter  than you could imagine that I had to been when I recite a rhyme  I might as well be inside of your mind  I know you thinkin, "Damn! How does he? What was he a man  or a machine with computerized diagrams?"  I tell em, "Nope! I am of the flesh, fresh, dope"  I'm set apart you're just a shot in the dark  and the darkness casts no shadow  And I'll be victorious, no matter who I battle  So every rapper in the house shut the fuck up!    Cause if it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - check one, check two  If it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all   - check a one two check a one two  If it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - a check one check two now I check you    Now everyone knows I got the Milk like D, homemade quilt  to get your wig peelt, like it should be  Top o' the mornin to ya, it's so many ways to do ya  I offer you the shield, just before I deal on ya  I recommend, that when I squeeze the puss from your skin  you pretend it ain't happenin  Cause everywhere is my stompin grounds  When MC's stepped in I stomp em down to the lowest  You the slowest rapper that I met, but you owe us all a favor  not to, jet (nah you ain't goin nowhere)  not until you show us you be flippin  I give your body lashes and whippins  T crashes the board like Pippen, I has to be trippin  Not for your pleasure or your entertainment I came with  a crew called self, and everybody looked just like me  And we agreed that we dope fool  We got flavor and everyone knows who's the saviour  Cause everyone knows, everyone knows  Everyone knows I got flow    And if it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, a check a one two  If it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - a check two, a mic a check two  If it wasn't for a mic check I wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, a check a one two  If it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all   - a one two, and I'ma check you    *Alternate last verse*     yeah, peep this out, peep this out, peep this out...  this here's real life, right  and we are fully animated, highly intelligent, original life forms  landin' in your leavin' (living) room  now back up from the tell-lie-vision I need breathin' room  we'll be leavin' soon on a runaway brain train  so sustain and seckle  cuz wild game can't be tamed or tackled or shackled when I echo this mic check  you know that  can't hold back the blowed back when I flow that  ooh, blew his wig back for tryin' to ride pig (piggy) back  now dig that  I done slid back  used my view finder  I'mma give you a reminder  I'm on the straight and narrow with no blinders  no blinders  but I still see the rhyme designers that bite like sidewinders  with ten toes down and I spin flows 'round and 'round  on an angle, with anger, the angular warlock-like strangler  sociopathic, graphic  psycho symptom: drastic  plastic coated, bloated  fatty tissue acid  I'm Jurassic I unmask it with a bread basket full of mold and yeast  the stench is a clencher when the gases are released  so inhale  cuz you know you know you inhale  as it is in heaven  this is to my sistren and my brethren and it goes     if it wasn't for a mic check you wouldn't have a check at all  now check one check two  check one check two  check one check two  (fade out)