The Way I am

[00:00.96] Dre, just let it run

[00:12.21] Ayo, turn the beat up a little bit

[00:15.21] Ayo

[00:18.46] This song is for anyone...

[00:19.96] Fuck it, just shut up and listen

[00:23.21] Ayo

[00:25.46] I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zag's and this bag

[00:27.71] Of this weed, it gives me the shit needed to be

[00:30.71] The most meanest MC on this... on this Earth

[00:33.21] And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse

[00:35.46] And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works

[00:38.96] And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve

[00:41.71] All this tension, dispensin' these sentences

[00:43.96] Gettin' this stress that's been eatin' me recently off

[00:47.21] Of this chest and I rest again peacefully (Peacefully)

[00:49.96] But at least have the decency in you

[00:52.71] To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out

[00:55.21] In the streets when I'm eatin' or feedin' my daughter

[00:58.21] To not come and speak to me (Speak to me), I don't know you

[01:01.21] And no, I don't owe you a motherfuckin' thing

[01:03.96] I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think

[01:06.46] I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick

[01:09.21] If you tempt me, my tank is on empty (Is on empty)

[01:12.21] No patience is in me and if you offend me

[01:14.71] I'm liftin' you ten feet (Liftin' you ten feet) in the air

[01:17.46] I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you

[01:20.21] Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit

[01:22.71] I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe

[01:25.96] I'm tired of all you (Of all you), I don't mean to be mean

[01:28.96] But that's all I can be, it's just me

[01:31.21] And I am whatever you say I am

[01:34.21] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[01:36.96] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[01:40.21] Radio won't even play my jam

[01:42.46] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am

[01:44.96] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[01:47.46] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[01:50.46] I don't know, that's just the way I am

[01:53.46] Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered

[01:56.46] With all of this nonsense, it's constant

[01:58.71] And, "Oh, it's his lyrical content

[02:00.71] The song 'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses."

[02:03.96] And all of this controversy circles me

[02:06.71] And it seems like the media immediately

[02:08.96] Points a finger at me (Finger at me)

[02:11.71] So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie

[02:14.96] 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

[02:20.71] With the bullshit they pull, 'cause they full of shit too

[02:23.21] When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up his school

[02:26.21] And they blame it on Marilyn (On Marilyn) and the heroin

[02:28.96] Where were the parents at? And look where it's at!

[02:32.46] Middle America, now it's a tragedy

[02:34.46] Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city

[02:37.46] Havin' this happenin' (This happenin') then attack

[02:39.71] Eminem 'cause I rap this way (Rap this way) but I'm glad

[02:42.71] 'Cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire to burn

[02:45.96] And it's burnin', and I have returned

[02:48.21] And I am whatever you say I am

[02:51.21] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[02:53.96] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[02:57.21] Radio won't even play my jam

[02:59.21] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am

[03:01.96] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[03:04.46] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[03:07.96] I don't know, that's just the way I am

[03:10.21] I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired

[03:12.96] That I wish that I would just die or get fired

[03:15.71] And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables

[03:18.46] I'm not gonna be able to top a "My Name Is"

[03:21.21] And pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation

[03:23.96] To cop me rotation at rock 'n' roll stations

[03:26.71] And I just do not got the patience (Got the patience)

[03:29.46] To deal with these cocky Caucasians

[03:31.71] Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black 'cause I talk

[03:34.71] With an accent and grab on my balls so they always

[03:37.71] Keep askin' the same fuckin' questions (Fuckin' questions)

[03:40.46] What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in

[03:43.21] The why, the who, what, when, the where and the how

[03:45.96] 'Til I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out

[03:48.46] 'Cause they drivin' me crazy (Drivin' me crazy), I can't take it

[03:51.46] I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit

[03:53.96] And I'm thankful for every fan that I get

[03:56.96] But I can't take a shit in the bathroom without

[03:59.46] Someone standin' by it! (Standin' by it) No, I won't sign your autograph

[04:02.71] You can call me an asshole, I'm glad

[04:04.96] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am

[04:07.96] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[04:10.46] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[04:13.96] Radio won't even play my jam

[04:16.21] 'Cause I am whatever you say I am

[04:18.96] If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

[04:21.46] In the paper, the news, every day I am

[04:24.96] I don't know, that's just the way I am