[ti:the way i am] [ar:eminem] [00:00.240]Whatever [00:09.79]Dre just let it run [00:11.763]Aiyyo turn the beat up a little bit [00:15.11]Aiyyo this song is for anyone fuck it [00:21.263]Just shut up and listen aiyyo [00:25.75]I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag [00:27.763]of this weed it gives me the shit needed to be [00:30.386]the most meanest MC on this —on this Earth [00:33.326]And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse [00:36.262]And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works [00:38.887]And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve [00:41.387]all this tension dispensin these sentences [00:43.139]Gettin this stress that's been eatin me recently off of this chest [00:47.701]and I rest again peacefully [00:50.263]but at least have the decency in you [00:52.451]to leave me alone when you freaks see me out [00:55.76]in the streets when I'm eatin or feedin my daughter [00:58.200]to not come and speak to me [01:00.138]I don't know you and no [01:01.450]I don't owe you a motherfuckin thing [01:03.575]I'm not Mr N'Sync I'm not what your friends think [01:06.450]I'm not Mr Friendly I can be a prick [01:08.950]if you tempt me my tank is on empty [01:12.323]No patience is in me and if you offend me [01:14.637]I'm liftin you 10feet （liftin you 10feet）in the air [01:17.387]I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy you [01:20.137]Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit [01:23.12]I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe [01:25.574]I'm tired of all you [01:27.699]I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be is just me [01:30.822]And I am whatever you say I am [01:33.699]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [01:36.699]In the paper the news everyday I am [01:39.882]Radio won't even play my jam [01:41.882]Cause I am whatever you say I am [01:44.699]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [01:47.636]In the paper the news everyday I am [01:50.948]I don't know it's just the way I am [01:53.73]Sometimes I just feel like my father I hate to be bothered [01:56.824]with all of this nonsense it's constant [01:58.386]And Oh it's his lyrical content - [02:00.541]-the song 'Guilty Conscience'has gotten such rotten responses [02:03.104]And all of this controversy circles me [02:06.478]and it seems like the media immediately [02:08.723]points a finger at me （finger at me） [02:11.541]So I point one back at 'em but not the index or pinkie [02:14.791]or the ring or the thumb it's the one you put up [02:17.723]when you don't give a fuck when you won't just put up [02:20.415]with the bullshit they pull cause they full of shit too [02:23.103]When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school [02:25.853]and they blame it on Marilyn （on Marilyn）and the heroin [02:28.603]Where were the parents at And look where it's at [02:31.867]Middle America now it's a tragedy [02:33.804]Now it's so sad to see an upper class city [02:37.179]havin this happenin （this happenin） [02:38.429]then attack Eminem cause I rap this way （rap this way） [02:42.54]But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire [02:45.238]to burn and it's burnin and I have returned [02:47.548]And I am whatever you say I am [02:50.550]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [02:53.429]In the paper the news everyday I am [02:56.678]Radio won't even play my jam [02:58.678]Cause I am whatever you say I am [03:01.426]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [03:04.303]In the paper the news everyday I am [03:07.547]I don't know it's just the way I am [03:09.651]I'm so sick and tired of bein admired [03:12.463]that I wish that I would just die or get fired [03:15.211]and dropped from my label and stop with the fables [03:18.147]I'm not gonna be able to top on My Name is [03:20.775]And pigeon-holed into some pop-py sensation [03:23.85]to cop me rotation at rock'n'roll stations [03:26.220]And I just do not got the patience [03:29.412]to deal with these cocky caucasians who think [03:31.521]I'm some wigger who just tries to be black cause I talk [03:34.802]with an accent and grab on my balls so they always keep askin [03:38.54]the same fuckin questions [03:40.243]What school did I go to what hood I grew up in [03:42.993]The why the who what when the where and the how [03:45.432]'til I'm grabbin my hair and I'm tearin it out [03:48.168]cause they drivin me crazy I can't take it [03:51.356]I'm racin I'm pacin I stand and I sit [03:53.793]And I'm thankful for every fan that I get [03:56.418]But I can't take a SHIT in the bathroom [03:58.540]without someone standin by it [04:01.40]No I won't sign your autograph [04:02.665]You can call me an asshole I'm glad [04:04.540]And I am whatever you say I am [04:07.289]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [04:10.415]In the paper the news everyday I am [04:13.473]Radio won't even play my jam [04:15.447]Cause I am whatever you say I am [04:18.382]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [04:21.259]In the paper the news everyday I am [04:24.572]I don't know it's just the way I am