Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim Song Details

Eric B. & Rakim's ' "Microphone Fiend" was released on its scheduled release date, July 25, 1988. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 2 out of 14 in Follow The Leader (Expanded Edition) by Eric B. & Rakim. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, Microphone Fiend is currently average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 94 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. This song can go great with yoga or pilates. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

B Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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