Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim Song Details

Eric B. & Rakim's ' "Microphone Fiend" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 2005. 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 track order of this song in Eric B. & Rakim's "Gold" album is number 7 out of 21. In terms of popularity, Microphone Fiend is currently below average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Microphone Fiend by Eric B. & Rakim to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 94 BPM, a half-time of 47BPM, and a double-time of 188 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. 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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