The Way I Am (Eminem song)
September 7, 2000
The Way I Am (English for: "So am I" ) is a song by the American rapper Eminem. The song is the second single from his third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP and was released on 7 September 2000. In addition, the song is Eminem's best-of album Curtain Call: The Hits included.
Content
Eminem's autobiographical notes can be in the fan, media and label scolding from The Way I Am no doubt that the author acts as narrator in first-person perspective. The manner of performance is overall significantly more aggressive than other songs on the album. The song is written mostly in anapest.
The intro spoken prompts the audience to pay attention to. In the first stanza of the hip hop protagonist explains the purpose of the Cent Foundation: It build from frustration and confers an peaceful sleep. He also criticized the intrusiveness of fans who did not respect his privacy. He is nothing to them guilty and would also take an action for violence in purchasing. The chorus takes its title: The rapper is now time, as he is. While the news would report every day about him, the radio presence of his music would be appropriate but in no relation to it. The second verse is directed primarily against the media, the controversial discuss Eminem's music and try to make him responsible for various acts of violence. He alludes to the Columbine High School massacre, which was made for his and the music of Marilyn Manson responsible for, among other things. The debt is to be sought rather in the parents of the perpetrator in the consumed music. After all, he gave the media the material for his lyrics, which he procures satisfaction. In the third stanza the rapper criticized his own label, which wanted to build him one pop star after he was successful with My Name Is. He was under pressure to take a similar reviews ( what he had achieved with The Real Slim Shady ). Finally, he calls one of his rest, he had the same questions about his past and the background of his music sorry.
Production
The song is one of the first whose beat Eminem produced himself and one of the few whose text he wrote entirely himself. For the beat no samples of other songs were used.
Music Video
In the to The Way I Am rotated video Paul Hunter directed.
The video starts with an excerpt of the skits Steve Berman, in which this criticism on a label meeting Eminem's album. Eminem is initially on the window ledge of a tall building. When several passers-by gathered in front of the skyscraper, the rapper jumps off the window ledge into the abyss. From now on he rapping while he falls. As Eminem at the end comes up on the floor, this captures him, as if he were a giant mattress. Throughout the videos are always fictional excerpts from his private life, which is disturbed by intrusive fans, appears. So he 's nowhere to be undisturbed with his wife and daughter. In addition, the rock singer Marilyn Manson appeared in some scenes in the background.
Single
Cover design
The single cover is black and white. It shows Eminem with clasped hands, a black T -shirt and carrying his eyes towards the viewer. In the middle of the picture yellow lettering and Eminem The Way I stand Am.
Chart success
Award
Remix
For The Way I Am, there is a remix to Eminem recorded along with the rock singer Marilyn Manson. The remix was produced by Danny Lohner and can be associated with the genre of rap-rock. The song is included on both the single to the song Without Me and on the compilation The Singles.
Book of the same
On 21 October 2008 Eminem released an autobiography entitled The Way I Am. In Germany it was released by the publishing house Kiepenheuer & Malevich.
In the book, Eminem describes his fight against poverty, drugs and domestic violence, as well as his rise to fame and the controversy in his career. Included are also previously unpublished photos of Eminem's life as well as original drawings and text leaves.