Common — Thisisme

[Hook: KRS-One sample & (Common)] I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) [Verse 1] Check it out (Common) Good Morning Viet-Com, I'm back Huh, it's me again Is it me you're looking for? (Yup) For the perfect beat, sweetly oblique I'm fresh, I come clean, but I can't whistle Psss, I'm only buggin While No dug in the crates, I dug in my nose And picked a rhyme, any rhyme I don't have any time To waste, I'm hip... don't even trip To an easy travel agent now we fly for free I can be fly for free You want some fire tree, then buy from me I got the flame like U-I-C but I be from U-A-C Some of the realest illest chillest cats you may see In your life if you get one Rappers are like jobs to me (Why?) because they get done Here it comes I'm as Able as Cain to get raw That's why the DJ's mix me, I'm gonna bust dicks This is not da bomb so save all your threats I'm good to go and also I'm Rets Rhymes I wrecks affects the roughnecks Down to the preps in the Polos, the studs with fros Hoes with weaves, the bald-headed to the dreaded To folks with butters, high rollers in rollers Players with plats, studs with stocking caps I be rockin' raps 'til I collapse Niggas play my tape about as much as they do craps I'm on point, I cee-lo, I see high Hi C, I'm free at last I'm a free man, free as World B And like an early bird, I'm special You ain't that special, as Ed and Vesta So to myself I say congratulations I'm glad you had the patience, you better have the patience 'Cause this is me [Hook: KRS-One sample & (Common)] I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) [Verse 2] Whassup Scony Rony? I'm that boney homey from Stony (Common) You know me! Off the GP niggas see me on the TV Talkin' Take It EZ, and they was like "He ain't hardcore!" But hardcore is far more than bats and gats It stems back to the roots of being true It's gonna get me Me, you just get you You What I look like, talkin' about some shit I ain't do? I ain't shoot nobody, I ain't shank nobody, I ain't kill nobody It wasn't us, it was them The Warriors, I'm a warrior and still don't have to sho-gun It takes one to know one, and no one can Tell me how to be, 'cause I'mma be me, aight? 'Cause I'm a man, now check it [Hook: KRS-One sample & (Common)] I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) I love the way I am and can't nobody out here change me (Common) [Verse 3] Sometimes, sometimes, I get a good feeling! When I'm chillin' at the flat, lookin' at the wall Wondering can I come off of it, I'm off a bit On the mic I be talkin' shit But some say my talk don't make no Sense I'm tryin' to make dollars My momma told me to go to school and be a scholar But school ain't for me So don't even go there, I'm comin' out of nowhere to go where Probably in about seven years, I won't have no hair But not only am I the Hair Club President, I'm also a client I come off like a toupee, I still have to pay 2Pc Dark A Raider that never Lost the Ark, on the shot But now when I shoot rock, I be all out of breath My boy Adefo wanted to be a chef But he went down South, and fell in love, call me love 'Cause love is gonna getcha — I'mma getcha! I'm like B.J., my Arm is Strong and I Stretch ya Styles from East to West, all across the country I'm like that big fat woman 'cause cats wanna bump me I probably would get bumped more if I was a gangster But I am a gangsta, call me the gangsta of love I love my music, I love my momma I love myself, I love you, and you love me And this is, I'm out [Interlude] Yo, I wanna say peace to my moms, my grandmomma Lil Chandra, and John, yo rest in peace to my Aunt Stella Rahsaan's moms, Ron's moms, Dawn's moms, Corey's moms Who are you? These people be themselves y'all, peace and love [Outro: Common] (Repeat 4X) Common (over scratch of "can't nobody out here change me")