The Way I Am-Countdown Mix Masters

[ti:The Way I Am] [ar:Countdown Mix Masters] [al:Hip Hop History Vol.12 - 2000s] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.48]The Way I Am - Countdown Mix Masters [00:04.33] [00:09.05]Dre just let it run [00:10.48] [00:11.29]Hey yo turn the beat up a little bit [00:14.07]Hey yo this song is for anyone f**k it [00:18.75] [00:20.75]Just shut up and listen [00:23.34]Hey yo [00:24.01] [00:24.76]I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag [00:27.49]Of this w**d it gives me the sh*t needed to be [00:29.99]The most meanest MC on this on this earth [00:33.24]And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to [00:35.18]Just curse [00:35.56]And just blurt this berserk and bizarre sh*t that works [00:38.05]And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve [00:40.87]All this tension dispensing these sentences getting [00:43.32]This stress [00:43.86] [00:44.45]That's been eating me recently off of [00:46.84]This chest [00:47.50]And I rest again peacefully [00:48.63] [00:50.22]But at least have the decency in you [00:52.10]To leave me alone when you freaks see me out [00:55.02]In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter [00:57.83]To not come and speak to me [00:59.42]I don't know you [01:00.52]And no I don't owe you a mo-therf**k-in thing [01:03.22]I'm not Mr. NSync I'm not what your friends think [01:06.15]I'm not Mr. Friendly I can be a prick [01:08.60]If you tempt me my tank is on empty [01:10.63] [01:11.89]No patience is in me and if you offend me [01:14.43]I'm lifting you 10 feet in the air [01:16.95]I don't care who was there and who saw me destroy you [01:19.43]Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit [01:22.58]I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe [01:25.38]I'm tired of all you [01:26.71]I don't mean to be mean [01:28.38]But that's all I can be it's just me [01:30.42]And I am whatever you say I am [01:33.61]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [01:36.24]In the paper the news everyday I am [01:39.46]Radio won't even play my jam [01:41.73]'Cause I am whatever you say I am [01:44.35]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [01:47.39]In the paper the news everyday I am [01:50.02] [01:50.76]I don't know it's just the way I am [01:53.05]Sometimes I just feel like my father [01:54.55]I hate to be bothered [01:55.95]With all of this nonsense it's constant [01:58.25]Every Guilty Conscience has gotten such [02:01.80]Rotten responses [02:03.88]And all of this controversy circles me [02:06.18]And it seems like the media immediately [02:08.06] [02:08.97]Points a finger at me [02:11.22]So I point one back at 'em but not the index or pinky [02:14.80]Or the ring or the thumb it's the one you put up [02:17.60]When you don't give a f**k when you won't just put up [02:20.33]With the b******t they pull 'cause they full of [02:22.24]Sh*t too [02:23.17]When a dude's getting bullied and shoots up his school [02:25.54]And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin [02:28.19]Where were the parents at And look where it's at [02:31.38]Middle America now it's a tragedy [02:33.87]Now it's so sad to see an upper class city [02:36.79]Havin this happenin [02:37.91] [02:38.51]Then attack Eminem 'cause I rap this way [02:41.36]But I'm glad 'cause they feed me the fuel that I need [02:44.09]For the fire [02:44.96]To burn and it's burnin and I have returned [02:47.66]And I am whatever you say I am [02:50.51]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [02:53.11]In the paper the news everyday I am [02:55.44] [02:56.80]Radio won't even play my jam [02:58.70]'Cause I am whatever you say I am [03:00.75] [03:01.58]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [03:04.18]In the paper the news everyday I am [03:06.98] [03:07.71]I don't know it's just the way I am [03:09.62]I'm so sick and tired of be in admired [03:12.26]That I wish that I would just die or get fired [03:15.02]And dropped from my label and stop with the fables [03:17.50]I'm not gonna be able to top on My Name Is [03:21.00]And pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation [03:23.09]To cop me rotation at rock'n'roll stations [03:26.16]And I just do not got the patience [03:27.93] [03:29.25]To deal with these cocky caucasians [03:30.47] [03:31.05]Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black [03:33.52]'Cause I talk with an accent [03:34.87]And grab on my balls [03:36.40]So they always keep asking [03:37.70]The same f**king questions [03:38.65] [03:40.15]What school did I go to [03:41.40]What hood I grew up in [03:43.08]The why the who what when the where and the how [03:45.61]'Til I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearing it out [03:47.83]'Cause they driving me crazy I can't take it [03:50.97]I'm racing I'm pacing I stand and I sit [03:53.52]And I'm thankful for every fan that I get [03:56.04]But I can't take a sh*t [03:57.31]In the bathroom without someone standing by it [03:59.67] [04:00.88]No I won't sign your autograph [04:02.34]You can call me an asshole I'm glad [04:04.37]'Cause I am whatever you say I am [04:07.21]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [04:09.64] [04:10.26]In the paper the news everyday I am [04:13.70]Radio won't even play my jam [04:15.71]'Cause I am whatever you say I am [04:18.44]If I wasn't then why would I say I am [04:21.05]In the paper the news everyday I am [04:24.10] [04:24.63]I don't know it's just the way I am