The way I am

[00:00.83] Whatever

[00:09.07] Dre, just let it run

[00:11.73] Aiyyo turn the beat up a little bit

[00:13.86] Aiyyo, this song is for anyone, fuck it

[00:18.65] Just shut up and listen, aiyyo

[00:23.97] I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag

[00:27.18] Of this weed it gives me the shit needed to be

[00:29.83] The most meanest MC on this Earth

[00:33.29] And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse

[00:35.41] And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works

[00:38.33] And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve

[00:40.99] All this tension dispensin' these sentences

[00:43.39] Gettin' this stress that's been eatin' me recently off of this chest

[00:46.60] And I rest again peacefully (peacefully)

[00:49.02] But at least have the decency in you

[00:52.21] To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out

[00:54.60] In the streets when I'm eatin' or feedin' my daughter

[00:57.27] Do not come and speak to me (speak to me)

[00:59.67] I don't know you and no

[01:01.27] I don't owe you a mo-therfuck-in thing

[01:03.15] I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think

[01:05.81] I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick

[01:08.49] If you tempt me my tank is on empty (is on empty)

[01:12.24] No patience is in me and if you offend me

[01:14.10] I'm liftin' you 10 feet (liftin' you 10 feet) in the air

[01:16.75] I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy you

[01:19.44] Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit

[01:22.36] I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe

[01:25.02] I'm tired of all you (of all you)

[01:27.44] I don't mean to be mean but that\'s all I can be is just me

[01:30.63] And I am, whatever you say I am

[01:33.28] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[01:37.00] In the paper, the news everyday I am

[01:38.86] Radio won't even play my jam

[01:41.57] Cause I am, whatever you say I am

[01:44.49] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[01:47.15] In the paper, the news everyday I am

[01:50.33] I don't know, it's just the way I am

[01:53.00] Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered

[01:55.39] With all of this nonsense it's constant

[01:58.86] And: Oh, it's his lyrical content

[02:00.74] The song Guilty Conscience has gotten such rotten responses

[02:03.40] And all of this controversy circles me

[02:06.07] And it seems like the media immediately

[02:08.75] Points a finger at me (finger at me)

[02:10.88] So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie

[02:14.07] Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up

[02:16.72] When you don't give a fuck, when you won't just put up

[02:19.94] With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too

[02:23.40] When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up his school

[02:25.52] And they blame it on Marilyn (on Marilyn) and the heroin

[02:28.44] Where were the parents at? And look where it\'s at

[02:31.12] Middle America, now it's a tragedy

[02:33.55] Now it's so sad to see, an upper class ci-ty

[02:37.02] Havin' this happenin' (this happenin')

[02:38.61] Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way (rap this way)

[02:41.00] But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire

[02:44.73] To burn and it's burnin' and I have returned

[02:47.65] Chorus: And I am, whatever you say I am

[02:50.57] If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

[02:52.97] In the paper, the news, everyday I am

[02:56.77] Radio won't even play my jam

[02:58.63] Cause I am, whatever you say I am

[03:01.29] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[03:04.24] In the paper, the news, everyday I am

[03:07.43] I don't know, it's just the way I am

[03:10.11] I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired

[03:12.52] That I wish that I would just die or get fired

[03:14.91] And dropped from my label and stop with the fables

[03:17.83] I'm not gonna be able to top on My Name Is

[03:20.75] And pigeon-holed into some pop-py sensation

[03:23.41] To cop me rotation at rock\'n\'roll stations

[03:26.07] And I just do not got the patience (got the patience)

[03:29.79] To deal with these cocky caucasians who think

[03:31.65] I'm some wigger who just tries to be black cause I talk

[03:34.31] With an accent, and grab on my balls, so they always keep askin

[03:37.22] The same fuckin' questions (fuckin' questions)

[03:39.89] What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in

[03:42.54] The why, the who what when, the where, and the how

[03:45.21] 'Til I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out

[03:47.86] Cause they drivin' me crazy (drivin' me crazy), I can't take it

[03:50.79] I'm racin', I'm pacin, I stand and I sit

[03:52.92] And I'm thankful for ev-ery fan that I get

[03:57.16] But I can't take a SHIT, in the bathroom

[03:58.77] Without someone standin' by it

[04:00.36] No I won't sign your autograph

[04:02.76] You can call me an asshole I'm glad

[04:04.88] And I am, whatever you say I am

[04:07.27] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[04:09.92] In the paper, the news, everyday I am

[04:13.69] Radio won't even play my jam

[04:15.56] Cause I am, whatever you say I am

[04:18.74] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[04:21.13] In the paper, the news, everyday I am

[04:26.99] I don't know, it's just the way I am