Offical ''The Way I Am'' Book Thread

[Nick419]

bought it 2day, read the whole thing lol

[lakaisx]

yeah crazy book. ill post some of the original lyrics from the book: pg.154

fuck it im sick of duckin in public
i aint wearin this hat, sunglasses, and fake mustache
dude is that eminem..i dont
hell yeah its him
hey can you autograph my hat, slim
tha fuck
fuck no leave me alone dickface
dude can you do a drop for
my boys mixtape i give youa a
switchblade
to take in your ribcage
and shatter your bladder like a fishtank
sorry dude i mustave
made a mistake
i thought you could
freestyle for 6-hours
after you just ate

another one i could read was: pg.160

its like a jungle someimes it makes
me wonder why i keep on duckin
under the bed when i hear
thunder
cuz i aint crazy, i say shit
thats crazy to crazy people
to make em belive im crazy so
they can relate to me
and maybe belive in shady so they
can be an evil baby i like that
im only as crazy as
people made me
believe me there'd be just
as many motherfuckin murderers
and heroin users without
marilyns music

and here: pg 167 (my favorite)

im just a regular person whos got a problem with cursin
i probably cuss 86 times in a 5 minute verse but im
just me, i aint no fuckin a tv star
hailie its a tape in the VCR
but she knows we aint poor no more
i drive a 1999 ford explorer
with the whole passenger sides crashed up and disoritated
cuz i backed into a truck smashed up and bent it
we got TV's now with remote controls
hailies jumpin on the furniture pokin holes
but we dont give a fuck shit we;re just rich white trash
right, hailie tell em baby (Hailie says)-kiss my ass
dad, is mom gonna be made now baby we had a talk
and she said you could be bad
but just this once though put a finger up
and tell em baby we dont give a what-fuck

On pg166 theres another obvious rhyme you can read but its too long and my fingers are tired.

[*MIRANDA*]

i only read the first post
i really enjoyed reading it

[Tash8]

i only read the first post
i really enjoyed reading it

it's a really great book honestly, he's so down to earth, and he just tells it how he saw it... and it's pretty cool especially for a fan like me who never even knew of eminem when he was at his peak in 2003.

[*MIRANDA*]

i only read the first post
i really enjoyed reading it

it's a really great book honestly, he's so down to earth, and he just tells it how he saw it... and it's pretty cool especially for a fan like me who never even knew of eminem when he was at his peak in 2003.

yeah it read real easy, like it kept me interested
im not inna hurry to buy it cuz i got other things to spend my money on now
but when i got sum extra, ill def pick it up

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

i hate how he lists 50 cent as one of his favourite lyracists, say rapper dont say lyracists coz he isnt a lyracist. the lyric he then quotes to back this up "Woke up the next morning
N***** done stole my bike"



whats that all about ?

[Infinite2]

i hate how he lists 50 cent as one of his favourite lyracists, say rapper dont say lyracists coz he isnt a lyracist. the lyric he then quotes to back this up "Woke up the next morning
N***** done stole my bike"

Obviously, it's just his opinion.

Different day same shit in the hood, I'd run away from this bitch and never come back if I could.

[Tash8]

i hate how he lists 50 cent as one of his favourite lyracists, say rapper dont say lyracists coz he isnt a lyracist. the lyric he then quotes to back this up "Woke up the next morning
N***** done stole my bike"



whats that all about ?

i'm pretty sure he was referring to old 50 cent, cuz old 50 cent had some pretty sick lyrics.

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

^ the line he quotes to show his lyracism is from hate it or love it.

if he quoted a decent line i wouldnt have been as "wtf" about it, but the line is nothing special.

[Tash8]

^ the line he quotes to show his lyracism is from hate it or love it.

if he quoted a decent line i wouldnt have been as "wtf" about it, but the line is nothing special.

oh, didn't get that far in the book, but maybe the song itself, cuz that is a dope song Hate it Or Love it... the line was just maybe a line eminem could relate to, ya know?

plus isn't Hate it Or Love it a game song? (feat. 50 cent)?

[mart85]

when he quoted that line, he was talking about the storytelling abilites that 50 Cent "has"... read the few lines after he quoted that line, you'll see what I'm talking about

I don't really see what's so great about that line but I guess he can relate to it idk lol... to each his own I guess

[,-,'-{Bar}-',-,]

^yeh i got all that, he sayed how it took you right there in the place he was at that time.


just when reading it i thought it was a really weird example.




to go off that topic, i started readin it this morning and a hour latee i had finished, was really a great read i couldnt stop once i started. excellent insite into his mind and were his head is at. im disapointed he didnt comment more on his feelings on encore though.

[Tash8]

^yeh i got all that, he sayed how it took you right there in the place he was at that time.


just when reading it i thought it was a really weird example.




to go off that topic, i started readin it this morning and a hour latee i had finished, was really a great read i couldnt stop once i started. excellent insite into his mind and were his head is at. im disapointed he didnt comment more on his feelings on encore though.

damn u read real fast, i've only gone thru about 120 pages so far, but i've only read for about 40 min... anyways

didn't he say, he wanted to make a shitty album so people forget about him for 4 years? at least someone on rb said that he said that...

[AJS2050]

definetly a great read & some great photos in there aswell, em really opens up in it and describes everything really well, also contains a mention or 2 about his new album, and with a new album on the horizon this story is far from an end yet, i'd advise anyone to get it for sure

[mart85]

^yeh i got all that, he sayed how it took you right there in the place he was at that time.


just when reading it i thought it was a really weird example.




to go off that topic, i started readin it this morning and a hour latee i had finished, was really a great read i couldnt stop once i started. excellent insite into his mind and were his head is at. im disapointed he didnt comment more on his feelings on encore though.

damn u read real fast, i've only gone thru about 120 pages so far, but i've only read for about 40 min... anyways

didn't he say, he wanted to make a shitty album so people forget about him for 4 years? at least someone on rb said that he said that...

I think that guy was messing around I haven't read the whole book, but I don't think he would say that... I know at some parts he says that some fans might think he "sold out" but he doesn't feel this way, cause he has to please to a large audience, he made those pop songs, but he feels like his lyrics and flow etc... were always pure hip hop or something like that... I think he said that in the 8 Mile chapter.


btw, at page 162 I think, there are lyrics on a little piece of paper and Em says he never used those lyrics for anything, and he said he didn't mean to write "I like that" but really "I'm like that"... well those lyrics were used for "What The Beat" and he really said "I like that" so Em is all confused I'll never trust a word coming from his mouth again lol jk