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While your first impression is that he saying he is a microphone technician it is some cool metaphor/wordplay, buts its not – in this context; a microphone technician just means he is very skilled on the microphone.
^^^ See the oxford dictionary meaning yourself?
What is interesting though is he says “New York’s” when in fact he is from Long Island. He said himself he wonders what was happening in New York, so its strange. See it for yourself here.
Cause I've got the mic and I've got the soul Rakim – Heat It Up
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Rakim came from a jazz background, his mum listed to jazz and he played the saxophone as a kid. He uses that to his advantage as you see here.
He’s got the skill, he got the microphone and he has the soul to move the crowd – what else does an emcee need?
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Double Entendre.
The song is so loud that you want to get up and dance to it.
Rakim makes the best quality songs that you just want to dance to, as he is an emcee so he moves the people!
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Rakim is an emcee, so he moves the crowd – with his lyrics.
After Rakim got his rhyme book stolen, he started writing his rhymes in graffiti as a safety precaution, as he explains himself here.
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Rakim is using a simile to show his rhymes hit hard like a batter-ram.
Batter-rams hit hard, they been used since medievil days to knock any thing down, and are still used today by special forces to knock down doors.
Extremely dangerous I bust rhymes into the crowd
And watch 'em all scream out loud
Aw man Rakim – Heat It Up
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Rakim makes some nice wordplay here.
Metaphorically, Rakim’s rhymes are like bullets – they damage emcees carers. They just can not compete! So they disappear, they don’t want to compete.
Just like if Rakim was shooting at the crowd, everyone would be screaming. He is metaphorically shooting at crowd with his dangerous rhymes, and the crowd all love his skill!
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This is a very common used metaphor by Rakim.
His lyrics are so hot, that their on fire. His raps are so hot, so dope that when he spits them – he spits fire. That fire burns the microphone.
Rakim actually made this metaphor a big thing from his song – My Melody.
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Hustle from my grave before I leave I would never sign my name Kerser – Throw Away Bars
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Even if Kerser was to die today, his music would live on forever – like 2pac.
No one sighed Kerser before, so he refuses to be sighed now! He did it all on his own, with help of a few others, but no record company.
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Codeine is main ingredient to make lean. A drug which a lot of rappers take. He puts it in a boost cup to disguise it in public.
Kerser has tried to convince his fans to give up drugs, but he feels like a idiot as he takes them himself.
Promethazine, codeine in a boost