Leave Me Alone

Yeah! To all my fans

The people who don't know

What I've been going through

To make my... own

Now it's time to hurt your feelings as an obsessed music industry fan

Hey yo, my man, look at my hand, they look human right?

You think I'm a monster, ill circus clown

Not a specimen, don't look at me funny when I come around

A&R been trying to figure me out for years

Trying to reduplicate me, but they can't so they hate me

While white boys run the head of black music with a Japanese assistant

What does a Chinese kid know about the rap game? That's a shame

As I see and watch BET, there's a million

Uncreative rappers trying to be me

I'm starting to feel like Jimi Hendrix

When they cover the story who started rock

Magazines put blankets over my interviews

They don't wanna see me on Channel 7 news

Telling the truth off the project roof

They always have secret spies with eyes, watching me record my album

Send in producers with wack tracks

And DAT's messing up my whole format

Can you imagine doing something on an E-Board with Confunction

With an alternative hippie kid from

The record label watching your back

Talking about Mariah Carey's funky

Making an average group buckdance like a barrel full of monkeys

While I break out to the shopping mall he's making a quick phone call

About my sound is too new and different

I need to be regular like Dru Hill

And a little more ill ("Hey Keith, we want you to be ill")

Leave me alone, leave me alone

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Leave me alone, leave me alone

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Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

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Of course I'm hard to work with, 'cause you hard to work with

I don't wanna meet Insane Clown Posse and collaborate

I'm trying to innovate and think quick at a fast rate

Why you mad? 'Cause I'm original, you can't do material

And I sit back and watch you act big

Spend your budget on your video

I'm in one of my three luxury apartments eating Raisin Bran cereal

While you front row, I take my bike ride down to Wells Fargo

How long is it gon' take? 900,000 to clear

Talking with a clerk, I don't need a Benz this year

Took care of my paperwork, taking United Taxi out to Vegas

While the average R&B group is doing a promo concert

Ignoring your phone calls from broke labels

Who try to put out underground emcees

Trying to get me to rap on a wack jazz track for one G

How dare you try to insult me?

I got 40 grand for three minutes to write a song with Prodigy

Other crews don't get budget, got the nerve to call me

Welcome to the business, stand as a witness

Work on your stomach, do physical fitness

I ain't playing, all this African stuff all look the same

I don't need a jaw, neck bone, putting this artwork on my CD

Drawing apple jacks and honeycomb with me sitting on the throne

No, I'm taking a regular picture by the Hotel St. Bonaventure

Besides, I do wear a coat in the winter

And eat at beautiful restaurants

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Why you think I should wear a motorcycle helmet?

Why don't you wear it? Put on some wings like a parrot

Let's discuss this contract

Why you hyping up a normal female group

With fat cellulite that sound wack?

Most of y'all going out like Uncle Toms, like Louis Armstrong

Wearing a tattoo and going on stage like Tracy Chapman

I cancelled a big tour 'cause I was prepared

Y'all on the road with per diem money and y'all scared

While y'all walk and look hard

Your manager got his name all over your versatile card

And plus this video treatment sucks

The fish lens effects, the lens to

The camera only cost a hundred bucks

Look at the director trying to tell me what to do

I done this before, 14 degrees, freezing cold

Doing Poppa Large, with a cage on my head, that's dead

Don't get your imagination too messed up

I'm wearing a Yankee hat and a Starter, I'm not dressing up

How you gon' tell me what to wear?

I don't need mascara and a stylist

Save that for a big rock group like Pantera

Experience, Next Plateau, Mercury, Wild Pitch

EMI, Capitol, Dreamworks

Never got dropped, put my lyrics away and stopped

Too many people with hands in my project

Having fantasies of me being Superman, you acting stupid, man

I'm like Prince, you might see me once

Every five years at the record company

While most of y'all live at the label

Begging for your rent and car notes to be paid

Under the table doing routine dances for advances

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Politics, politics