The Way I Am

Whatever, Dre, just let it run

Aiyyo, turn the beat up a little bit

Aiyyo, this song is for anyone, **** it

Just shut up and listen, aiyyo

I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag

Of this **** it gives me the **** needed to be

The most meanest MC on this, on this Earth

And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse

And just blurt this berserk and bizarre **** that works

And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve

All this tension dispensin' these sentences

Gettin' this stress that's been eatin' me recently off of this chest

And I rest again peacefully

(Peacefully)

But at least have the decency in you

To leave me alone when you freaks see me out

In the streets when I'm eatin' or feedin' my daughter

To not come and speak to me

(Speak to me)

I don't know you and no

I don't owe you a **********in' thing

I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think

I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a *****

If you tempt me, my tank is on empty

(Is on empty)

No patience is in me and if you offend me

I'm liftin' you 10 feet in the air

(Liftin' you 10 feet)

I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy you

Go, call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit

I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe

I'm tired of all you

(Of all you)

I don't mean to be mean

But that's all I can be is just me

And I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

Radio won't even play my jam

'Cause I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

I don't know it's just the way I am

Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered

With all of this nonsense, it's constant

And, "Oh, it's his lyrical content, the song

'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses"

And all of this controversy circles me

And it seems like the media immediately

Points a finger at me

(Finger at me)

So I point one back at 'em but not the index or pinkie

Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up

When you don't give a ****, when you won't just put up

With the ******** they pull 'cause they full of **** too

When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up his school

And they blame it on Marilyn and the ******

(On Marilyn)

Where were the parents at? And look where it's at

Middle America, now, it's a tragedy

Now, it's so sad to see, an upper class city

Havin' this happenin'

(This happenin')

Then attack Eminem 'cause I rap this way

(Rap this way)

But I'm glad 'cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire

To burn and it's burnin' and I have returned

And I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

Radio won't even play my jam

'Cause I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

I don't know it's just the way I am

I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired

That I wish that I would just die or get fired

And dropped from my label and stop with the fables

I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name is"

And pigeon holed into some poppy sensation

To cop me rotation at rock 'n' roll stations

And I just do not got the patience

(Got the patience)

To deal with these ****y Caucasians who think

I'm some wigger who just tries to be black 'cause I talk

With an accent and grab on my ***** so they always keep askin'

The same ****in' questions

(****in' questions)

What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in?

The why, the who what when, the where and the how

'Til I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out

'Cause they drivin' me crazy, I can't take it

(Drivin' me crazy)

I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit

And I'm thankful for every fan that I get

But I can't take a **** in the bathroom

Without someone standin' by it

No, I won't sign your autograph

You can call me an ******* I'm glad

'Cause I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

Radio won't even play my jam

'Cause I am, whatever you say I am

If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

In the paper, the news everyday I am

I don't know it's just the way I am