The Way I Am Songtext

Fuck it, just shut up and listen...Aiyyo

I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags
and this bag
Of this weed it gives me the shit
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
shit 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 mo - therfuck - in thing
I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your
friends think
I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick
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 (liftin you 10 feet)...
in the air
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 fuck,
when you won't just put up
With the bullshit they pull, cause they full
of shit too
When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots
up his school
And they blame it on Marilyn (on Marilyn)...
and the heroin
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
ci - ty
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 pop - py 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 cocky caucasians
who think
I'm some wigger who just tries to be
black cause I talk
With an accent, and grab on my balls,
so they always keep askin
The same fuckin questions
(fuckin 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 (drivin me crazy)... I can't take it
I'm racin, I'm pacin, I stand and I sit
And I'm thankful for ev - ery fan
that I get
But I can't take a SHIT, in the bathroom
Without someone standin by it
No I won't sign your autograph
You can call me an asshole 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