The Way I Am
[00:00.08] Man, whatever
[00:08.32] Dre, just let it run
[00:12.03] Ayo, turn the beat up a little bit
[00:15.23] Ayo, this song is for anyone...
[00:19.74] Fuck it, just shut up and listen, ayo
[00:25.05] I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zags and this bag
[00:27.71] Of this weed, it gives me the shit needed to be
[00:30.63] The most meanest MC on this on this Earth
[00:33.55] And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
[00:35.94] And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works
[00:38.86] And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve all this tension
[00:42.05] Dispensing these sentences, getting this stress
[00:44.97] That's been eating me recently off of this chest
[00:47.63] And I rest again peacefully
[00:50.55] But at least have the decency in you
[00:52.67] To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out
[00:55.33] In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter
[00:57.99] To not come and speak to me
[01:00.38] I don't know you, and no, I don't owe you a mothafuckin' thing
[01:03.56] I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think
[01:06.22] I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick if you tempt me
[01:09.68] My tank is on empty, no patience is in me
[01:13.13] And if you offend me, I'm lifting you ten feet in the air
[01:16.85] I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
[01:20.30] Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit
[01:22.97] I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
[01:25.62] I'm tired of all you, I don't mean to be mean
[01:28.80] But that's all I can be, it's just me
[01:31.19] And I am whatever you say I am
[01:33.85] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:36.51] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[01:39.98] Radio won't even play my jam
[01:42.10] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[01:45.02] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:47.94] In the paper, the news, every day I am, huh
[01:50.86] I don't know, it's just the way I am
[01:53.01] Sometimes I just feel like my father
[01:55.13] I hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense, it's constant
[01:58.58] And, oh, it's his lyrical content, the song Guilty Conscience
[02:01.77] Has gotten such rotten responses
[02:04.17] And all of this controversy circles me
[02:06.55] And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
[02:11.60] So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie
[02:15.05] Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up
[02:17.71] When you don't give a fuck, when you won't just put up
[02:20.37] With the bullshit they pull, 'cause they full of shit too
[02:23.55] When a dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school
[02:25.94] And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin
[02:28.87] Where were the parents at? And look where it's at!
[02:31.79] Middle America, now it's a tragedy
[02:34.44] Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city
[02:37.10] Havin' this happenin'
[02:39.23] Then attack Eminem 'cause I rap this way
[02:42.15] But I'm glad, 'cause they feed me the fuel that I need
[02:45.07] For the fire to burn and it's burning, and I have returned
[02:47.74] And I am whatever you say I am
[02:50.66] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[02:53.59] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[02:56.51] Radio won't even play my jam
[02:58.90] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[03:01.55] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[03:04.49] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[03:07.68] I don't know, it's just the way I am
[03:10.08] I'm so sick and tired of being admired
[03:12.74] That I wish that I would just die or get fired
[03:15.40] And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables
[03:18.33] I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name Is"
[03:20.98] And pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation
[03:23.65] To cop me rotation at rock-n-roll stations
[03:26.57] And I just do not got the patience
[03:29.49] To deal with these cocky Caucasians
[03:31.62] Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black
[03:34.01] 'Cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my balls
[03:37.20] So they always keep asking the same fucking questions
[03:40.40] What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in
[03:42.79] The why, the who, what, when, the where and the how
[03:45.98] 'Til I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearin' it out
[03:48.63] 'Cause they driving me crazy, I can't take it
[03:51.29] I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit
[03:53.94] And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
[03:56.60] But I can't take a shit in the bathroom
[03:58.74] Without someone standing by it
[04:01.41] No, I won't sign you an autograph
[04:03.00] You can call me an asshole, I'm glad, 'cause...
[04:05.13] I am whatever you say I am
[04:07.79] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:10.44] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:13.63] Radio won't even play my jam
[04:16.02] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am
[04:18.68] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:21.60] In the paper, the news, every day I am
[04:25.05] I don't know, it's just the way I am
