Album on Curtain Call: The Hits (Deluxe Edition)
Track 3 on Curtain Call: The Hits (Deluxe Edition)
The Way I Am Lyrics
[Intro]
Man, whatever
Dre, just let it run
Ayo, turn the beat up a little bit
Ayo
This song is for anyone
Fuck it, just shut up and listen
Ayo
[Verse 1]
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
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
Do not come and speak to me
I don’t know you, and, no, I don’t owe you a motherfuckin’ thing
I’m not Mr. *NSYNC, 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
No patience is in me, and if you offend me
I’m liftin’ you ten feet in the air
I don’t care who was there and who saw me, just jaw 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
I don’t mean to be mean
[Chorus]
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
(Ha) 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
(Ha) I don’t know, that’s just the way I am
[Verse 2]
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
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 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 city havin’ this happenin’
Then attack Eminem ’cause I 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
[Chorus]
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
