EMINEM PRODUCED THIS HIMSELF?! | Eminem - The Way I Am (Full Analysis)

[@KnoxHill]

What else should we react to? 🤔 Comment below! Also if you like the song in the intro check out ‘Survivor’ now kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4KodqV-mMuEqZo

[@brandonayong5823]

I'm not sure you ever did " Don't front" From him. A true hidden gem

[@janne21]

React to: Eminem ft 50Cent - Gatman and Robin Eminen - Brainless Eminem - Baby

[@mickybazelmans7118]

@@brandonayong5823 that one is crazy man!

[@g-rabbit8650]

Won't back down on the recovery album 🙏 get your ears ready

[@kumbusojoshuanyoni8794]

Killer track Knox....One love from Zambia

[@GUGSTVSPARTA]

The flow on this is 🎯🎯🎯 plus the word play, alliterations, aggression and the realism is what makes this song a masterpiece for me. Add all that to the fact that the instrumental is so good, almost like a rap/hard core rock sound and you have one of the greatest rap songs ever.

[@tarrenceprice9458]

It really is a great song. Yea the cadence he uses is masterful. It’s not easy to maintain that style of delivery while simultaneously doing what you’ve mentioned above. Excellent story telling as well.

[@topspot4834]

Facts. The schemes within the schemes is crazy ... You know a song is great when you picture it in your head, kinda like Stan. If you can't picture it, it's not great.

[@bend4852]

I always thought it was lame that he rhymes the word am with itself repeatedly on the hook but if you look beyond that and pay attention to the rest of the lyrics, it's probably one of his top 5 songs he's ever done. Top 10 anyway no doubt

[@bend4852]

I never realized he got that line from Rakim. Eminem is always shouting out the rappers that came before him in his music

[@iceyroo]

Music professors show this song cause it was written in a very particular way that mirrors some obscure music theory rhythm, it’s so unique 🔥

[@JBRamit]

Oh I want to dig into this now

[@kimberlymannino2179]

There’s a video on YT where they’re teaching it at university in Europe.

[@erickdiaz884]

@@kimberlymannino2179 do u perhaps have the link or the title of this video?

[@kimberlymannino2179]

@@erickdiaz884 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6uzY5xufJlsgZY Enjoy 😊

[@aprilboxton2284]

​@@kimberlymannino2179that's amazing and not surprising.. gotta look into that.. thanks for that

[@DubyaDetailing]

People don’t realize how iconic this song actually is nobody else can even do this type of fucking shit and tell a story at the same time deliver emphasize punch the lines as hard as he does he’s just a fucking beast

[@chanceowens11]

I think this could be an amazing series. I hope to see more “What Makes Eminem Great”

[@misslovechild22]

Yes 🔥🙏

[@JBRamit]

Yes please!

[@Brigada91RealBriggy]

that comment aged very well!

[@chanceowens11]

@@Brigada91RealBriggy ?

[@corylyonsmusic]

yes, he wrote this because his label said he didn't have a single and needed one. He was was like "ok then, here ya go". but then they still said "nope, a real single"...and "The Real Slim Shady" was born. I remember sitting and waiting for the radio station to play the hours top 5 again, so I could hear the song over and over before the album dropped. I was a sophomore in high school, had JUST gotten my license, and went straight down to Karma the day it released. Walked out the door and got in my car, and immediately began driving around to this classic. Im 37 now, and I still remember that day like it was yesterday lol. Living through the Eminem dynasty alongside Eminem was so impactful, it's impossible to explain the craziness that was the era of Eminem. He's, rightfully, still amazing today but this was before internet and stewing and stuff. It was all MTV and radio and cds. Artists and fame were kind of different back then. He was just on an unprecedented pedestal at that time and it was pretty amazing to witness. I can actually remember when I got the Eminem Show the next year too lol. I remember going between school and bball practice and jammed it out to practice. I remember the exact teammate I had a conversation with about it because he had done the same lol

[@JBRamit]

Fun fact, when I was 16, my friends and I got into a skating rink nostalgia thing, and this started playing and I rapped all the words while skating backwards and shocked all my friends. It’s like my most proud memory of a time I wasn’t a clumsy weirdo. 🤣 Also nobody do the math there, thanks.

[@theoneguydaniel4634]

assuming this was in 2000, you are around 30 now 😀

[@aliasfakename5551]

​@@theoneguydaniel4634 around 40

[@TobiasPlays03]

Everytime Eminem gives us a unique flow i find it as such a blessing, this is the peak of this art form, its like Leonardo di Vinci showing us a new painting, the beauty and uniqueness of it is mesmerizing when New Em drops with a completely new pocket that he finds for us to his masterpieces

[@fikilemkhize5776]

He experiments more than anyone with new flows. Sometimes it comes out as a masterpiece, sometimes it's hard to listen to, but that's art, you can't hit the nail on the head everytime

[@ebenwrogemann2512]

​@@fikilemkhize5776 thats exactly it. he can make mess ups like revival. but he only human. even though revival was okay for me. but not his best. mtbmb is more what id want from him

[@syyneater]

@@fikilemkhize5776 It’s probably one of the reasons he hasn’t gone stagnant. It always feels like he switched addictions from substances and hyper focused on rhyming and english in general. Hell, he almost talks in rhyme patterns. With how much he’s in the studio and writing, I’d love to see the catalog of random songs, flows, beats, etc.. The library of unreleased material of his has to be staggering. It’s always felt like he took a lot of lessons from Dre, especially after getting clean. Like you said, you don’t have to love, or even like, everything he puts out, but his talent, willingness to try new flows/schemes, has to be respected and that’s before adding how much respect he’s given to the game and other legends in it.

[@justuschester4602]

@@syyneater I couldn’t say it any better he truly is my opinion the goat 🐐 rap god indeed 💯🔥🔥

[@matthewniederriter9605]

This is the reaction I have been waiting for. Hands down his best track.

[@KnoxHill]

Much love man thanks for supporting

[@misguidance__]

Probably my favourite Eminem song. This flow is unmatched and that piano line gives this song a whole new level to it, kinda like cleaning out my closet it’s just iconic

[@benronald3470]

One of his greatest songs of all time. How people never knew he would reach the levels he has after listening to this is beyond me. The term genius doesn’t do this man justice. Great work Knox.

[@chrismunoz7859]

Em is the father of the "choppy flow" before it was out and had substance in it.

[@GenX-Rising]

I love how he modifies the third line of the first verse to stay with the flow. "the most MEAN-est m.C. on this E, on this EARTH, and since BIRTH, Ive been Cursed, with this Curse, to just CURSE" That's literally a snippet of the verse and it's packed with lyrical genius and keeps the "stomp stomp CLAP" for the first verse and in the second, he changes it up in a way that he probably only does it to challenge himself by doubling up on the syllables in the first 2 lines of the stanza to 6, and THEN doubling those in the last line to 12. It's truly something that requires savant level of natural ability as well as very high type of intelligence that deals with rhythm and linguistics and audible mathematics, whatever that's called...percussive intelligence?? But he goes into, "I'm so sick AND TIRED, of being ADMIRED" 6 and 6 with the last 3 or 4 syllables with his bendability delivery and finishes the stanza with, "that I just wish I would just die or get fired" 12 syllables!

[@luisgarcia-fp4pf]

Ur really smart lol. U must have studied this

[@GenX-Rising]

@@luisgarcia-fp4pf Im a writer and I'd say that I have a love of literary devices and that I do have a tendency to pay a lot of attention to all writings from established brilliant wordsmiths and love being amazed when I find lyrical and linguistic syntax magic jumping at me like lexical gymnastic backflips but I don't consider myself to be smarter than anyone because of this though. Ive just studied many a poetry and poet, a myriad of all kind over a period of a long time. Lol. Im definitely smarter than every retarded Joseph Biden cocky fan and anyone who thinks MGK chose to start a doped up whiney poppy band... Lol

[@deviousraul]

people need to appreciate more Knox's music man, that song at the intro is fire 🔥

[@jixaw13]

100% dude

[@KarasouTengu]

I havn't heard this song in over 10 years, and still the words come out my mouth like it was yesterday.

[@jeremyhuffine2091]

We appreciate you knox! I've learned so much about music because of you.

[@KnoxHill]

Much love brother 🤘

[@normal-potato05]

My favorite Eminem track, if not the best track in the Marshall Mathers LP. Also the first shady track I heard

[@Rosiepooh75]

I loved Eminem/Shady's music from the first single, but this song made me love Marshall Mathers. It doesn't mean I love every song and lyric he ever put out. Not everything resonates with me, but regardless I still love the artist, and respect the art ❤

[@David_Scar]

🤓

[@joab757]

Tough to say this is one of my favorite Em songs because there are so many but it’s definitely top 10. It’s so raw and punches so hard. This and Til I Collapse…need to do that one if you haven’t.

[@mabberthegreat1501]

Everything about this song is GOATED. Especially during the time when Em dropped this.

[@biggs8021]

King Knox of Bar breakdown. No one comes close. Here you go sir you deserve this 👑

[@flowstatelabs]

Who else could even come close to writing something AND delivering something even 1/2 as raw as this. This track alone would be THE career highlight of any other artist. For em this is just a regular day at the office.

[@anthonyanderson9303]

Man I still remember how massive this album was. I had just graduated high school in 2000 and headed down to Ocean City MD for senior week and literally every where you went no matter what time of day or night, someone was blasting in this in their car. Was just insane how big he was at the time.

[@zimriel]

i keep dropping this anecdote in comment-boards but: i went to a restaurant a few weeks after this LP dropped. they played Dido's song. there was a table of early20s year old women on a table a few meters away from me. they were upset when they realised it was Dido's song and not "Stan"

[@jessicamarie42503]

The song is “As the rhyme goes on” by Eric b and rakim. This is Rakims debut album! Never connected the dots on that! How cool!

[@YOLO11.11]

Man, I remember when this album dropped, there was a line at the record store all waiting to buy the album. I must’ve played the whole album on my Walkman a billion times 😬🤣

[@too2great8]

One of my favorite Eminem songs ever. He rides this flow like a wave. 😉

[@getz1983]

It sounds like when he says “ the meanest MC .. on this earth. “. The echo sounds like he says “ on this sea ) on this Earth” That’s what I’ve heard for years. Maybe I’ve just got use to thinking I hear that

[@harryparsons2750]

I think he does say that

[@Endl3ssBoy]

same here

[@0MosDefinitely0]

The Marilyn Manson line always gives me goosebumps, it's just too true

[@zimriel]

yeah, there was a lot of moral-panic about Marilyn before Eminem showed up. american politicians are some of the worst on this planet.

[@IasonasAngelou1]

Man, we all appreciate what u are doing ❤️

[@nimishkashyap4994]

Knox never ceases to amaze us with his hip hop knowledge!!!!!!!

[@cindyw262]

Such a classic. This will be one of those songs that is timeless, I think.

[@hoopwizardws]

Blessed to have Thursdays off for Knox' legendary breakdowns! LETS GO!

[@Juras187]

We called it “bubblegum music”. Churned out of the machine and cloned and replicated to the point that it made us sick. I was listening to bands like Pantera and Slayer at the time when he came out swinging at that shit. We were like “Fuck Yeah”!! This is the crap that the ones saying he only went at pop stars doesn’t get. He was taking on the industry itself. So abrasive and against the grain for the time. We needed it.

[@davidt510]

Hearing that beat automatically takes me back to when I was around 10/11 and used to play that album in my Walkman.

[@zcany]

Eminem produced 90% of The Eminem Show Album which is the 4th best Selling HipHop album EVER

[@coltonmcbride2335]

This why Eminem is the goat.

[@simonsaunders8945]

this is the song i heard on cassette tape when i was 11, still a fan at 32, my one and only idol, will forever hold a special place with myself, great vid Knox

[@melissakennedy1506]

Hey Knox thanks for really breaking down the music just has the lyrics. I recently ran across a like documentary type of video that was by his mother and his uncle. They were talking about how he was such a weird little kid and he would always rock back-and-forth especially when he heard music. And if he thought that something was seriously wrong with him mentally. His uncle said that once he got older he was able to stop rocking and instead he would do this weird thing with his hand with his index and middle finger and make a tapping type shaking motion with them all the time and he would have them on the table or kept them on his pants when he was thinking and it made people think that he was mentally disturbed. When I heard that it reminded me of that I Canik seen an eight Mile when he’s on the bus and he takes out his paper and he’s writing and doing that thing with his hand and almost tapping on the paper with his right hand. This track really embraces the feeling of the frantic nature of his life at a time when suddenly he had all these crazy fans and his whole personal life is falling apart, so when I hear the cadence and the beat and physically rock back and forth a little with it, it feels like wanting to pull your hair out stress and anxiety all combined. I think that might be the secret of how he’s always able to put so much emotion and make the listener really feel a certain kind of way. It’s just an interesting thing to note for musicians, and kind of Geeky thing, but I think it makes a difference in critically analyzing the intent and feeling of the art and what it says about the artist. It like listening to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy after realizing he was deaf and composed it by sawing the legs off his piano and lying on the floor. The art was more about the vibration of the sound against the body instead of in the ear.

[@raymond8590]

I was waiting for thisss yess! Thank youu. Your breakdowns are handsdown the best! others just react orr break down barss but you break down bars+ react+give insights as an MC yourself. The cadence, the flow,the history, the technical skills involved, all explained. I get those all in Mr knox's content and for that iam truely grateful

[@elemaire86]

My favorite hip hop song of all time ever since I first heard it.

[@ginoclaveria]

This is what I have been waiting for! I have been commenting this request for years already! Thank you Knox!

[@kellyrain6725]

hiii knoxxx!

[@KnoxHill]

Yo

[@Fckyou16]

@@KnoxHill yo

[@jayeshvyaasa]

You can't just listen to this song without bumping your head. Great job Knox. You killed it. 👍

[@TBoneTony]

Much respect for Eminem, I like his late 90s early 2000s songs and kinda went out of it in recent decades. Music was more important to me during the 90s and 2000s until mid 2000s when life took other paths. But I always remember being amazed by Eminem how he sets up the humor as well as the background story of most of his songs and my teen years went from listening to his funny songs to his more serious ones.

[@HaienTwitch]

This was the first hiphop song ever I learned bar for bar. I was in lower secondary school and can still bust out this beast out whenever called upon. I think I could do every song from the Marshall Mathers LP to this day. It had such a huge impact on me. This plus Marilyn Manson who is named in this song was a huge part of my teenage years. I had blond hair like him one year and black with a blue tint the other year just like Eminem and Marylin Manson. I used to get bullied a lot at school but music like this made me fight back so hard that people would rarely try twice, and I owe a lot of that fight back and confidence to music like this. I am 5,2 feet "tall" now as an 37 year adult so imagine how hard it was being a child and teenager going to school every day.

[@probellum8844]

Your breakdowns are always great, and very informative. Even though it's not anything I'd get into myself, the way you explain stuff really gives an understanding of how rhymeschemes can be set up and bent. Like... You could bend Callous all the way to something like Liberty if you scheme it out enough. Not something I'd have ever considered as a more fiction writer, lol. A great breakdown as always. E.g: (Warning, horrible rhyming, probably) They say that I'm callous, But there's never any malice. You see? My hands; they're calloused Me sayin' I'm soft is a fallacy, But I just didn't live in a palace, see? My pen ain't blister free, They're paged on leaves from a bitter tree, And ink'll that'll split the sea. I may never write life, love and liberty, But I'm eloquent enough, you'll consider me.

[@babis_mousto8866]

That's good don't worry

[@user-cy6oi7cf5e]

And I rest again peacefully R A P also in this song thats highly overlooked bar REST AGAIN PEACEFULLY BUT RAP AND POETRY because that what RAP STANDS FOR.

[@TheSwedishDoc]

I've actually performed this song at my school. so this song is close to my heart

[@MrMxxt]

Absolute masterpiece of a song! Knox always killing it with the breakdowns!

[@user-he6kh2bc4s]

You are by far the best reaction content creater.. ive only been watching reaction vids here and there but you are different.. people react and buzz but dont get the lyrics but you literally try to work out what is said here on the spot and you go into so much details and you always have a mutual opinion and dont just favour people. I admire your hard wark and what you do.. you dont need anyones help to get big.. what your doing. More and more people will appreciate this and your an amzing person.. respect to you knox hill

[@c0ty408]

Not watched the video yet but I want to say 1 thing ..... I started watching you when you had a brick wall behind you .. the growth of this channel, you as a reactor and you as an artist have just elevated constantly my guy ... Powers to you Knox frfr 🙏🏽... now I'm going to watch the video 🤣🤣

[@L4ftyOne]

Em produced 70-75% of his own songs so yes

[@brandonayong5823]

I've always felt like it was funny how he says " Stop with the fables I'm not gonna be able To top on" My name is " Because the label kept asking him for another Funny First single for this album but" The real slim shady " actually ended up being even way more iconic than my name is

[@OldHead1980]

This song is always on my playlist

[@YourFavouriteShady]

Sick another video to watch from knox Also your new song is sick,been on non stop repeat

[@jblaineee808]

One of the first em songs I learned word for word ! 🔥🔥

[@Fckyou16]

Aight ima get to memorising the words, how long did it take you to learn the words?

[@jblaineee808]

@@Fckyou16 it’s actually really easy a few days. Like knox said the way em wrote it, it just kinda easy to recall after you hear the words a few times

[@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384]

Bruh, please react to Machayenge 4

[@ErinJeanette]

I grew up when eminem came out and all the controversy and this song felt like nothing ever heard it was truly like hearing a serpent spit venom at you so hatefully. I loved it and almost was annoyed he pulled his punches a bit by saying he doesn't mean to be mean, be mean. I love it because all that's dark and threatening has been the driver of my life and I am at peace with where it's taken me. I've found the most hauntingly beautiful things because of it. I'll be 37 this month feel like I was born at the perfect time to experience things that mattered. Also just realizing he said marilyn and heroin in gnat, too. Totally different meanings and but still said he had it. Also it is so real only being happy when I'm angry because sometimes when you have already felt everything, that's the only feeling that kicks your ass.

[@Emilie-one]

This is one of my favorites from Em. Great breakdown Knox

[@Fuetre]

Man the binging I’ve done on your videos over the years is insane. You’re the goat of this shit Knox and you’re an amazing MC. You need to breakdown your own music because nobody does justice to real breakdowns like you do.

[@marksulak6938]

This song cemented my GOAT status for Em.

[@Spyderdemonge]

The second verse on "I'm Back" always baffled me, the rhyme scheme is insane

[@hadsoncbc5911]

i never ever comment on channels but you are the GOAT of barology, no cap. Please man, react to ON FIRE, pissed off shady all the way

[@Moobadons]

In his first verse, when he says "the meanest MC on this - on this earth", MC echoes so it sounds like "the meanest MC on this sea, on this earth" which is basically saying meanest on this world which is pretty sick

[@ivartheboneless1456]

My fav Eminem song ever!!

[@g4m3rL3dg3n]

Em is the goat every track he has done is straight 🔥

[@briankliesch5536]

5 minutes used to breakdown the first 4 LINES. How perfectionism can an artist like Eminem be? And Knox have already done soooo many Em-breakdowns . But that I didn't saw anytime.

[@chriswhitton666]

my all time fave em song. prophetic and awesome. from a metal head ;)

[@svensvenson8896]

Im not subscribed but ive been watching& you break down every bar an you no your shit an know schemes love it 👍😂

[@simplyshady20]

Now Subscribe bro.. 😂 It's illegal to watch without subscribing 😭😂😂 He's The 🐐 Of Breakdowns...

[@LIL-GAMER12]

Yo this song that you reacted to 11 months ago it's close to my heart and my sister's heart because Eminem she helped me and my sister getting out of dark situations with this song so thank you for reacting to it

[@neilledejongh1290]

Knox Hill On Dat GOAT TALK 🐐

[@ClauPrentt]

Dude, i started watching your videos reacting to latin productions and singers and i was mind blowing about them, i was like, i need to see one of his videos talking about a rapper from USA… and as i thought, you killing it. People can not like Eminem, but damn nobody can unappreciated his art. Great reaction. Also on my way to listen to your music, because there’s no way that someone with some many info and understanding cant do an amazing music. glad i find you!

[@misslovechild22]

PS Knox you're really killing it with the bar breakdowns

[@chandrastar5939]

The Ken Kenif skit at the end of MML2 plays so well in relation to Em trying to take a shit in private.

[@wnfakind9197]

Knox hill you beauty . Always excited for your reviews. I’ll be even more excited when you do , Chris Webby - Metafreeverse. Cheers bro much love .

[@joab757]

You are legit Knox! Everything you touch is Gold. But it’s nice to see the grind behind the product!

[@letsstanbangtanboys3850]

Love your talent and hard work Knox❤️❤️. Ok now i'm going to listen one and only "survivor"

[@capRRRRii]

That is my favourite song on EM and you gave me a completely new way of looking at it. Thank you!

[@prof3ssor178]

Eminem is far too underrated as a producer! One my favorite beats from him & song 🐐

[@Michael-cv7fh]

This song is my helpline in my life. When someone says I don't like that about you then I immediately think of this song and say: you ain't like me well I'm glad that's the way I am, don't like me leave me.

[@tungsten5214]

Mann i heard this song so many time but the way Knox be breaking apart the bars it a surgery.

[@aainfinite5232]

Bruhh Krsna new diss is out

[@r.k6376]

Alternative tittle... What makes Eminem GOAT

[@misslovechild22]

This is the song that almost made me quit on Eminem. But the more I listened to it, it made me a real fan. It's my favorite Eminem song. 🔥

[@swag8989]

why did it almost made u quit on him?

[@arrogantstylez]

R.A.K.I.M is the song and it’s off of the 8 mile sound track. Flames..flames..FLAMES!!! Then again I don’t recall a song on that sound track that wasn’t pure fire. Lol. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

[@TennesseeTriStar]

This is probably by far em best song ! Lyrics are deep and needle sharp ! The flow is probably top 3 all time ! This flow on this track is probably peak Eminem ! Love it

[@jixaw13]

Thank you Knox

[@KnoxHill]

Thank you for supporting

[@s.a.c6935]

Rakim "It is the R"

[@sllverhand]

Less goo, one of the best rap songs ever

[@topspot4834]

Only reactor to catch immediately and media ... Every single word on this entire track was intentional. Perfection.

[@elemaire86]

Same here, the growl in his voice is my favorite Em style.

[@user-kx6qw2nd8v]

He speaks the truth about people thinking they own you when you’re having private time - on stage is where they perform for you but out and about he owes people nothing. He’s entitled to privacy 👏

[@globalizacionliquida]

I still listening this song almost every day.....

[@RavixAryss]

God I really want Knox to break down Business like this, it'd be so facinating!

[@JustGiveMeAnyAlias]

I love this song but was confused by many lines cause I’m not a English major and always doing hard with understand lyrics. Thank you for explaining what they mean and their meaning itself

[@calliew311]

Speaking of "rock stations*, Eminem was on the Warped Tour his first year he came out with Hi, My Name Is. I remember seeing him and I was backstage, and I stood on the side of the stage while he played. I am mad at myself for not actually caring, because at the time, I thought he was the next Vanilla Ice, I didn't think he had staying power and thought he was a joke. If I could go back and relive that time and meet him, I would completely change what I did that day.

[@sumittimilsina9209]

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 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 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 Dispensing these sentences, getting this stress That's been eating 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 I'm eating or feeding my daughter To not come and speak to me I don't know you, and no, I don't owe you a mothafuckin' 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 tempt me My tank is on empty, no patience is in me And if you offend me, I'm lifting you ten feet in the air I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you Go call you a lawyer, 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, it's just me And I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am Radio won't even play my jam 'Cause I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am, huh I don't know, it's just the way I am Sometimes I just feel like my father I hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense, it's constant And, oh, it's 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, 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, 'cause they full of shit too When a dude's getting 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 upper-class city Havin' this happenin' Then attack Eminem 'cause I rap this way But I'm glad, 'cause they feed me the fuel that I need For the fire to burn and it's burning, and I have returned And I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am Radio won't even play my jam 'Cause I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am I don't know, it's just the way I am I'm so sick and tired of being admired That I wish that I would just die or get fired And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables I'm not gonna be able to top on "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 I'm some wigger who just tries to be black 'Cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my balls So they always keep asking the same fucking 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 I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearin' it out 'Cause they driving me crazy, I can't take it I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit And I'm thankful for every fan that I get But I can't take a shit in the bathroom Without someone standing by it No, I won't sign you an autograph You can call me an asshole, I'm glad, 'cause... I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am Radio won't even play my jam 'Cause I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news, every day I am I don't know, it's just the way I am

[@JorgeGarcia-ub8pd]

That into track of yours is one of my favorites. Got it on my Spotify. "I'm a survivor"

[@LeeMckenzie-us1bd]

Knox I was just about to comment the r.a.p peacefully, what means rap and you got it as I was typing lol fair play that’s why your a good reactor

[@bahamutskingdom]

Listening to this again (How many damn years later) I never really paid total attention to the lyrics. Not sure really why? Maybe....actually my age. 20-something year old all about the music. There were anthems and albums of my childhood I really did pay attention to the lyrics (One - Metallica, Etranged - GNR, Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson, etc) But somehow a butt-ton of music was missed lyrically. Now my 40's has been revisiting artists such as Em, and wondering how I missed a lot of music with some damn powerful meaning inside the lyrics.