R-Mean’s remake of Eminem’s classic The Way I Am. Off the “Nas & Em” tribute mixtape released on October 17th 2016.
Verse 1:
Some people meant to be happy
Some people meant to be great
I just try to be myself, only few that tend to relate
Some people hate for no reason, they just be weak in the end
I still got love for some people I'll never speak to again
My entire life I've been trying to do what's right, that's a fact
But realized I'm loyal to the ones that's holding me back
Always others before me
Always humble, never mean
This time I'm loyal to myself, you fuckers gonna see
So tell me if you was me then what the fuck would you do
Crossing oceans for cats that wouldn't hop a puddle for you
The money fucks it all up, Homie it's all about green
Gotta play dirty to get filthy, but my heart is too clean
So I drink a half a bottle and light a blunt matter fact
The industry like the streets, this shit just don't love you back
I sacrificed all I got
Sweat and tears every drop
Still I don't think that I'll ever stop
Bridge:
Because I am whatever you say I am
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
Meanest emcee on the sea on the earth
Because I am whatever you say I am
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
Hook:
It's the way that I am
You can change but I can't
I'm a be me, you can be you
Because your feet won't fit in these shoes
Because the way that I am
You can change but I can't
I'm a be me, you can be you
Because your feet won't fit in these shoes
Verse 2:
I got some family members that's fucking racist as fuck
They hate the fact that I rap, in fact they hate it so much
They hate I'm hanging with blacks, and all my people is mixed
Guess they just don't know better, ignorant pieces of shit
You'll never make it anyway you fucking wasting your time
You went to school for all these years why are you wasting your mind
A pharmacist on the real, you should be healing your patients
Rather heal them with music, that's the real medication
But I know they just don't get it and never will, it won't happen
So it's just me and my pen
With just my pain and my passion
I lost friends, lost fam
Lost and used how I felt
But to me that's still better than fucking losing myself
So I'm just losing myself in the music, the moment and hold it
Never ever let it go
Last time I checked, I was living my life and not yours
Want to change me?
You could never so...
The Way I Am was written by R-Mean.
R-Mean released The Way I Am on Mon Oct 17 2016.