Rap God

Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
Charted: 5 7
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  • Look, I was gonna go easy on you and not to hurt your feelings
    But I'm only going to get this one chance (six minutes, six minutes)
    Something's wrong, I can feel it (six minutes, six minutes, Slim Shady, you're on)
    Just a feeling I've got, like something's about to happen, but I don't know what
    If that means what I think it means, we're in trouble, big trouble
    And if he is as bananas as you say, I'm not taking any chances
    You are just what the doctor ordered

    I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
    All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
    Now who thinks their arms are long enough to slap box, slap box?
    They said I rap like a robot, so call me Rapbot

    But for me to rap like a computer must be in my genes
    I got a laptop in my back pocket
    My pen'll go off when I half-cock it
    Got a fat knot from that rap profit
    Made a livin' and a killin' off it
    Ever since Bill Clinton was still in office
    With Monica Lewinsky feelin' on his nutsack
    I'm an MC still as honest
    But as rude and indecent as all hell syllables, killaholic (kill 'em all with)
    This flippity dippity-hippity hip-hop
    You don't really wanna get into a pissing match with this rappidy brat
    Packin' a MAC in the back of the Ac', backpack rap crap, yap-yap, yackity-yack
    And at the exact same time, I attempt these lyrical acrobat stunts while I'm practicin' that
    I'll still be able to break a motherfuckin' table
    Over the back of a couple of faggots and crack it in half
    Only realized it was ironic I was signed to Aftermath after the fact
    How could I not blow? All I do is drop F-bombs, feel my wrath of attack
    Rappers are having a rough time period, here's a Maxipad
    It's actually disastrously bad
    For the wack, while I'm masterfully constructing this masterpièce

    'Cause I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
    All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
    Now who thinks their arms are long enough to slap box, slap box?
    Let me show you maintaining this shit ain't that hard, that hard
    Everybody want the key and the secret to rap immortality like I have got

    Well, to be truthful the blueprint's simply rage and youthful exuberance
    Everybody loves to root for a nuisance
    Hit the Earth like an asteroid, did nothin' but shoot for the moon since (pew)
    Mc's get taken to school with this music
    'Cause I use it as a vehicle to bus the rhyme
    Now I lead a new school full of students
    Me? I'm a product of Rakim
    Lakim Shabazz, 2Pac, N.W.A, Cube, hey Doc, Ren, Yella, Eazy, thank you, they got Slim
    Inspired enough to one day grow up, blow up and be in a position
    To meet Run-D.M.C and induct them into the motherfuckin' Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame
    Even though I walk in the church and burst in a ball of flames
    Only hall of fame I'll be inducted in is the alcohol of fame on the wall of (shame)
    You fags think it's all a game 'til I walk a flock of flames
    Off a plank and tell me what in the fuck are you thinkin'?
    Little gay lookin' boy
    So gay I can barely say it with a straight face lookin' boy
    You witnessin' a mass-occur
    Like you're watchin' a church gathering take place lookin' boy
    "Oy vey, that boy's gay", that's all they say, lookin' boy
    You get a thumbs up, pat on the back
    And a "Way-to-go" from your label every day, lookin' boy
    Hey, lookin' boy, what you say, lookin' boy?
    I get a "Hell yeah" from Dre, lookin' boy
    I'ma work for everything I have
    Never asked nobody for shit, get outta my face, lookin' boy
    Basically boy, you're never gonna be capable
    Of keepin' up with the same pace, lookin' boy

    'Cause I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
    All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
    The way I'm racin' around the track, call me NASCAR, NASCAR
    Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park, the White Trash God
    Kneel before General Zod, this planet's Krypton, no Asgard, Asgard

    So you be Thor and I'll be Odin, you rodent, I'm omnipotent
    Let off then I'm reloadin' immediately with these bombs I'm totin'
    And I should not be woken
    I'm the walkin' dead, but I'm just a talkin' head, a zombie floatin'
    But I got your mom deep-throatin'
    I'm out my ramen noodle, we have nothin' in common, poodle
    I'm a Doberman, pinch yourself in the arm and pay homage, pupil
    It's me, my honesty's brutal
    But it's honestly futile if I don't utilize what I do though
    For good at least once in a while
    So I wanna make sure somewhere in this chicken scratch I scribble and doodle
    Enough rhymes to maybe to try to help get some people through tough times
    But I gotta keep a few punchlines just in case 'cause even you unsigned
    Rappers are hungry lookin' at me like it's lunchtime
    I know there was a time where once I
    Was king of the underground, but I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind
    So I crunch rhymes, but sometimes when you combine
    Appeal with the skin color of mine
    You get too big, and here they come tryin' to
    Censor you like that one line I said on "I'm Back" from the Mathers LP One
    When I tried to say, "I'll take seven kids from Columbine
    Put 'em all in a line, add an AK-47, a revolver and a nine"
    See if I get away with it now that I ain't as big as I was, but I'm
    Morphin' into an immortal comin' through the portal
    You're stuck in a time warp from 2004 though
    And I don't know what the fuck that you rhyme for
    You're pointless as Rapunzel with fuckin' cornrows
    You write normal? Fuck being normal
    And I just bought a new ray-gun from the future
    Just to come and shoot ya like when Fabolous made Ray J mad
    'Cause Fab said he looked like a fag at Mayweather's pad
    Singin' to a man while he played piano
    Man, oh man, that was a 24/7 special on the cable channel
    So Ray J went straight to the radio station the very next day
    "Hey, Fab, I'ma kill you"
    Lyrics coming at you at supersonic speed, (JJ Fad)
    Uh, sama lama duma lama, you assumin' I'm a human
    What I gotta do to get it through to you, I'm superhuman?
    Innovative and I'm made of rubber
    So that anything you say is ricochetin' off of me and it'll glue to you
    I'm devastating, more than ever demonstrating
    How to give a motherfuckin' audience a feelin' like it's levitating
    Never fading, and I know that the haters are forever waiting
    For the day that they can say I fell off, they'll be celebrating
    'Cause I know the way to get 'em motivated
    I make elevating music, you make elevator music
    Oh, he's too mainstream
    Well, that's what they do when they get jealous, they confuse it
    It's not hip-hop, it's pop, 'cause I found a hella way to fuse it
    With rock, shock rap with Doc
    Throw on Lose Yourself and make 'em lose it
    I don't know how to make songs like that
    I don't know what words to use
    Let me know when it occurs to you
    While I'm rippin' any one of these verses diverse as you
    It's curtains, I'm inadvertently hurtin' you
    How many verses I gotta murder to
    Prove that if you were half as nice, your songs you can sacrifice virgins too? Uh
    School flunkie, pill junkie
    But look at the accolades the skills brung me
    Full of myself, but still hungry
    I bully myself 'cause I make me do what I put my mind to
    And I'm a million leagues above you, ill when I speak in tongues
    But it's still tongue in cheek, fuck you
    I'm drunk so Satan take the fucking wheel, I'm asleep in the front seat
    Bumping Heavy D and the Boys, still chunky but funky
    But in my head, there's something I can feel tugging and struggling
    Angels fight with devils and here's what they want from me
    They're askin' me to eliminate some of the women-hate
    But if you take into consideration the bitter hatred I have
    Then you may be a little patient and more sympathetic to the situation
    And understand the discrimination
    But fuck it, life's handing you lemons, make lemonade then
    But if I can't batter the women, how the fuck am I supposed to bake them a cake then?
    Don't mistake him for (Satan)
    It's a fatal mistake if you think I need to be overseas
    And take a vacation to trip a broad
    And make her fall on her face and
    Don't be a retard, be a king? Think not
    Why be a king when you can be a God? Writer/s: Bigram John Zayas, Dania Maria Birks, Douglas L. Davis, Fatimah Shaheed, Juana Michelle Burns, Juanita A. Lee, Kim R. Nazel, Marshall B. III Mathers, Matthew Arthur Delgiorno, Ricky M. L. Walters, Stephen Hacker
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Exploration Group LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., MUSIC SERVICES, INC., PINK PASSION MUZICK, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Siahara Shyne Carter from United StatesWow!!!!
    I'm speechless of this song lol



    The lyrics is very genius! I don't know the story behind but Eminem is Crazy! His the 'Rap God' No one can compare him When it comes to rapping He just say it all' "No one can Stop him"





    Why be king When you can be God. ;-)
  • Michael from Las Cruces, NmAlso on the line where he says
    "It's still Tongue and Cheek-f--k you" He's saying that he's not meaning any offense to what he's saying about the homosexual community. So, to all the haters of this song: It's still tongue and cheek.
  • Michael from Las Cruces, NmOn the verse of
    "I take seven kids from Columbine, stand 'em all in a line
    Add an AK-47, a revolver, a nine
    See if I get away with it now that I ain't as big as I was before"
    They actually let him get away with it because it's not as sensitive. However people once they get past the speed of Eminem they realize he's trying his same s--t again c:
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