The way I am
[00:00.90] Man, whatever
[00:09.67] Dre just let it run
[00:12.16] Ayo, turn the beat up a little bit
[00:15.15] Ayo, this song is for anyone
[00:19.16] Fuck it, just shut up and listen, ayo
[00:24.40] I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zag's and this bag
[00:26.81] Of this weed, it gives me the shit needed to be
[00:30.56] The most meanest MC on this—on this Earth
[00:33.08] And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
[00:36.06] And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works
[00:38.56] And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve all this tension
[00:42.30] Dispensing these sentences, getting this stress
[00:45.32] That's been eating me recently off of this chest
[00:47.31] And I rest again peacefully
[00:50.07] But at least have the decency in you
[00:52.57] To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
[00:54.82] In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter
[00:58.06] To not come and speak to me, I don't know you
[01:00.82] And no, I don't owe you a mothafuckin' thing
[01:03.07] I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think
[01:05.58] I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick if you tempt me
[01:10.56] My tank is on empty, no patience is in me
[01:12.31] And if you offend me, I'm lifting you ten feet in the air
[01:16.31] I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
[01:20.06] Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit
[01:21.34] I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
[01:25.83] I'm tired of all you, I don't mean to be mean
[01:27.57] But that's all I can be, it's just me
[01:30.82] And I am whatever you say I am
[01:33.56] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:36.06] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[01:39.33] Radio won't even play my jam
[01:42.07] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[01:44.57] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:47.31] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[01:50.56] I don't know, it's just the way I am
[01:52.82] Sometimes I just feel like my father
[01:55.06] I hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense
[01:58.30] It's constant, and, "Oh, it's his lyrical content
[02:00.31] The song 'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses."
[02:03.31] And all of this controversy circles me
[02:06.57] And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
[02:09.06] So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie
[02:15.08] Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up
[02:17.56] When you don't give a fuck, when you won't just put up
[02:20.31] With the bullshit they pull, 'cause they full of shit too
[02:22.82] When a dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school
[02:25.57] And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin
[02:28.82] Where were the parents at? And look where it's at!
[02:31.81] Middle America, now it's a tragedy
[02:34.08] Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city havin' this happening
[02:39.06] Then attack Eminem ‘cause I rap this way
[02:42.56] But I'm glad, ‘cause they feed me the fuel that I need
[02:44.57] For the fire to burn, and it's burning, and I have returned
[02:47.56] And I am whatever you say I am
[02:50.57] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[02:53.07] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[02:56.56] Radio won't even play my jam
[02:58.57] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[03:02.81] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[03:04.07] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[03:07.07] I don't know, it's just the way I am
[03:09.60] I'm so sick and tired of being admired
[03:12.58] That I wish that I would just die or get fired
[03:15.82] And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables
[03:18.31] I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name Is"
[03:21.32] And pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation
[03:23.31] To cop me rotation at rock-n-roll stations
[03:26.06] And I just do not got the patience
[03:28.84] To deal with these cocky Caucasians
[03:31.81] Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black
[03:34.33] ‘Cause I talk with an accent and grab on my balls
[03:37.82] So they always keep asking the same fucking questions
[03:40.57] What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in
[03:43.09] The why, the who, what, when, the where and the how
[03:45.57] 'Til I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearin' it out
[03:48.56] ‘Cause they driving me crazy, I can't take it
[03:51.07] I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit
[03:53.81] And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
[03:56.57] But I can't take a shit
[03:58.57] In the bathroom without someone standing by it
[04:01.33] No, I won't sign you an autograph
[04:03.06] You can call me an asshole, I'm glad
[04:04.56] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[04:07.06] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:10.06] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:14.56] Radio won't even play my jam
[04:16.07] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[04:20.06] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:22.56] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:24.57] I don't know, it's just the way I am
