Well his response is that he “don’t give a f–k”. And this is not to imply that he is some type of insensitive a-hole. And many people were, once again, alarmed by the subject matter of his lyrics. But back during the turn of the century, he was more akin to a cultural phenomenon (i.e. These days we’ve grown accustomed to Eminem saying crazy things. In the second verse Shady addresses negative criticisms of the content of his music. So this sentiment reads sort of like if you’re a follower of the rapper and approach him in the wrong way or at an inopportune time, then the response you’re going to receive will be less-than-favorable.Īnd if, as someone people tend to do, you try to sue him in the aftermath, he has enough dough to entertain such petty pursuits anyway. To the contrary, at times he “can be a pr-ck”. And as stated later in the song, he is “thankful for every fan” that he has. But at the same time he doesn’t feel as if he is indebted to them. ![]() He’s not one of those types of musicians who is compelled to always have a smile on his face and treat admirers kindly in the name of appeasing the public. Well, Shady lets it be known that he isn’t on it like that. Or more specifically he could be out spending time with his small daughter, yet people he doesn’t even know would “come and speak to” him. ![]() To him, these are the type of individuals who just don’t know when to say when. On FansĪnd the first group of people he spazzes on are over-zealous fans. giving him a means to get certain things ‘off his chest’. ![]() He then lets it be known that this track does in fact serve as a form of stress relief, i.e. In fact as lengthy as it is, “The Way I Am” is one of those types of tracks in which if you were to go to its Genius page, virtually every line is annotated. In other words, there is a lot going on throughout which many people can identify with, understand and even formally study.Īnd the rap starts off with Eminem finna roll up some spliffs in the name of giving him the inspiration to be “the most-meanest MC on… Earth”. Or stated alternatively, getting high allows him to be freer artistically. In fact by the time he had finished recording the complete draft of his third album, “The Marshall Mathers LP” (upon which this song is featured), the execs in charge of the project did not feel that it possessed a proper lead single. And it was such an opinion which prompted Shady to write this very song.Īt the time it wasn’t only over-critical fans who were causing dude to ‘tear out’ his own hair. His marked stress was also due to the fact that his label bosses were putting a considerable amount of pressure on the rapper. But at least we can say, at the end of the day, he responded well to the tension by dropping one of the most-honest, relevantly-personal and socially-encompassing rap songs ever written. At the time Marshall was already famous, we can perhaps even say more so than many had anticipated. Yet and still he was under professional pressure to match the achievement of “The Slim Shady EP”, his second album, which in its own way changed the course of rap music.
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