Eminem
I Am


Dre just let it run 

A yo turn the beat up a little bit 

A yo 

This song is for anyone 

Fuck it shut up and listen 


A yo, 

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 Mcee 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 me sentences gettin it 

Stress that's been eaten me recently offa 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 

To not come and speak to me -- 

I don't know you and no, I don't owe you a mo-therfuck-ing 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 tip me my tank is on empty 

No patience is in me and if you offend me I'm liftin you 10 feet 

In the air I don't care who is there and who saw me jus jaw you 

Go call you a lawyer go 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 but that's all I can be is just me 


[HOOK] 

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 

Cuz 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 alla this nonsense it's constant 

Oh it's his lyrical content the song "Guilty Concience" 

has gotten such rotten responses 

And all-a this controversy circles me 

And it seems like the media immedietly 

Points a finger at me -- 

So I point one back at em but not the index or pinky 

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 cuz they fulla 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 upperclass city havin this happenin -- 

Then attack Eminem cuz I rap this way 

But I'm glad cuz they feed me the fuel that I need 

For the fire to burn in it's burnin and I have returned 


[HOOK] 


I'm so sick and tired of being admired 

That I wish I would just die or get fired 

And drop from my label and stop with the fables 

I'm not gonna be able to top what my name is 

And pigeon-holed into some pop-y sensation 

To cop me rotation at rock-an-roll stations 

And I just do not got the patience -- 

To deal with these cocky Caucasians 

Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black 

Cuz I talk wit an accent and grab on my balls 

So they always keep askin the same fucking questions 

What school did I go to what hood I grew up in 

And why the who what when the where and the how 

till I'm grabbin my hair and I'm tearin it out 

Cuz they drivin me crazy -- 

I can't take it I'm racin I'm pacin 

I stand and I sit 

I'm thankful for every 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 



Cuz 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 

Cuz 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