The Way I Am

[00:33.80]I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zags and this bag
[00:36.70]Of this weed, it gives me the **** needed to be
[00:39.00]The most meanest MC on this on this Earth
[00:41.70]And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
[00:44.80]And just blurt this berserk and bizarre **** that works
[00:47.40]And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve all this tension
[00:51.10]Dispensing these sentences, getting this stress
[00:53.60]That's been eating me recently off of this chest
[00:56.40]And I rest again peacefully
[00:58.70]But at least have the decency in you
[01:01.50]To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
[01:03.90]In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter
[01:06.90]To not come and speak to me
[01:08.90]I don't know you, and no, I don't owe you a ***********' thing
[01:12.30]I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think
[01:15.10]I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a ***** if you tempt me
[01:17.80]My tank is on empty, no patience is in me
[01:22.10]And if you offend me, I'm lifting you ten feet in the air
[01:26.00]I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
[01:28.90]Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit
[01:31.60]I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
[01:34.30]I'm tired of all you, I don't mean to be mean
[01:37.50]But that's all I can be, it's just me
[01:39.90]And I am whatever you say I am
[01:42.70]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:45.20]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[01:48.30]Radio won't even play my jam
[01:50.80]‘Cause I am whatever you say I am
[01:53.70]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:56.20]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[01:59.20]I don't know, it's just the way I am
[02:02.00]Sometimes I just feel like my father
[02:03.90]I hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense, it's constant
[02:07.20]And, "Oh, it's his lyrical content, the song 'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses"
[02:12.80]And all of this controversy circles me
[02:15.20]And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
[02:19.40]So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie
[02:23.70]Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up
[02:26.60]When you don't give a ****, when you won't just put up
[02:29.10]With the bull**** they pull, ‘cause they full of **** too
[02:31.90]When a dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school
[02:34.80]And they blame it on Marilyn and the ******
[02:37.30]Where were the parents at? And look where it's at!
[02:40.80]Middle America, now it's a tragedy
[02:43.10]Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city
[02:46.10]Havin' this happening
[02:47.40]Then attack Eminem ‘cause I rap this way
[02:50.60]But I'm glad, ‘cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire to burn and it's burning, and I have returned
[02:56.80]And I am whatever you say I am
[02:59.60]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[03:02.40]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[03:05.20]Radio won't even play my jam
[03:07.80]‘Cause I am whatever you say I am
[03:10.50]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[03:13.20]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[03:15.90]I don't know, it's just the way I am
[03:18.90]I'm so sick and tired of being admired
[03:21.10]That I wish that I would just die or get fired
[03:24.10]And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables
[03:27.00]I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name Is"
[03:29.80]And pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation
[03:32.50]To cop me rotation at rock-n- roll stations
[03:35.30]And I just do not got the patience
[03:37.30]To deal with these ****y Caucasians
[03:40.30]Who think I'm some ****** who just tries to be black
[03:42.60]‘Cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my *****
[03:45.50]So they always keep asking the same ******* questions
[03:48.30]What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in
[03:51.80]The why, the who, what, when, the where and the how
[03:54.20]Till I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearin' it out
[03:57.00]‘Cause they driving me crazy, I can't take it
[04:00.00]I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit
[04:02.40]And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
[04:05.30]But I can't take a **** in the ********
[04:07.60]Without someone standing by it
[04:09.60]No, I won't sign you an autograph
[04:11.60]You can call me an *******, I'm glad, ‘cause…
[04:14.50]And I am whatever you say I am
[04:16.50]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:19.10]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:21.90]Radio won't even play my jam
[04:24.60]‘Cause I am whatever you say I am
[04:27.40]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:30.10]In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:33.20]I don't know, it's just the way I am