[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, Ive 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 thats 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 Im eatin or feedin my daughter ~#**************#~ Do not come and speak to me ~#**************#~ I dont know you, and, no, I dont owe you a motherfuckin thing ~#**************#~ Im not Mr. *NSYNC, Im not what your friends think ~#**************#~ Im 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 ~#**************#~ Im liftin you ten feet in the air ~#**************#~ I dont care who was there and who saw me, just jaw you ~#**************#~ Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit ~#**************#~ Ill smile in the courtroom, and buy you a wardrobe ~#**************#~ Im tired of all you ~#**************#~ I dont mean to be mean ~#**************#~ But thats all I can be, its just me ~#**************#~ [Chorus] ~#**************#~ And I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ (Ha) Radio wont even play my jam ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ (Ha) I dont know, thats just the way I am ~#**************#~ [Verse 2] ~#**************#~ Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered ~#**************#~ With all of this nonsense, its constant ~#**************#~ And, “Oh, its 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, its the one you put up ~#**************#~ When you dont give a fuck, when you wont just put up ~#**************#~ With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too ~#**************#~ When a dudes gettin bullied and shoots up his school ~#**************#~ And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin ~#**************#~ Where were the parents at? ~#**************#~ And look where its at ~#**************#~ Middle America, now its a tragedy ~#**************#~ Now its so sad to see ~#**************#~ An upper-class city havin this happenin ~#**************#~ Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way, but Im glad ~#**************#~ ‘Cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire to burn ~#**************#~ And its burnin, and I have returned ~#**************#~ [Chorus] ~#**************#~ And I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ Radio wont even play my jam ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ (Ha) I dont know, thats just the way I am ~#**************#~ [Verse 3] ~#**************#~ Im so sick and tired of bein admired that I wish that I would just die or get fired ~#**************#~ And dropped from my label, lets stop with the fables ~#**************#~ Im not gonna be able to top a 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 ~#**************#~ To deal with these cocky Caucasians who think ~#**************#~ Im some wigga 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 ~#**************#~ What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in ~#**************#~ The why, the who, what, when, the where, and the how ~#**************#~ ‘Til Im grabbin my hair and Im tearin it out (Argh) ~#**************#~ ‘Cause they drivin me crazy, I cant take it ~#**************#~ Im racin, Im pacin, I stand, and I sit ~#**************#~ And Im thankful for every fan that I get ~#**************#~ But I cant take a shit in the bathroom without someone standin by it ~#**************#~ No, I wont sign your autograph ~#**************#~ You can call me an asshole, Im glad ~#**************#~ [Chorus] ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ Radio wont even play my jam ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I am whatever you say I am ~#**************#~ If I wasnt, then why would I say I am? ~#**************#~ In the paper, the news, everyday I am ~#**************#~ (Ha) I dont know, thats just the way I am ~#**************#~ [Produced by Eminem]