09. Commonalities

You think I'm unoriginal? You think I'm fake? You think I'ma copycat? Then I think you're nothing but a stupid fuck!

'Cause I'm none of that. What you don't know about me could fill a book

Can't nobody call me an imposter

Hard work got me bloody to create this monster

Call me a wannabe but me I gotta be I wash no mind for you to follow me

It's like 2 different dudes wearing the same exact shoes

& 1 flips out 'cause the other copied the shoe he choose

See that's different but if he did it for himself, it wouldn't matter what he chose 'cause he didn't use his help

There's enough for copycats circling the planet

& I swear by all I am I'm not them goddamnit

It's hard enough to be myself

Created my originality without anyone's help

But in a sense, we all copy each other

Since you wanna get literal

Criticism lover you're pitiful

When I look at you, I could call you a fake

Ya probably jacked 5 styles you don't hear me hate

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Similarities & copiers aren't the same

You can think what you want of me & insult & try to blame

Just makes you naive but if you wanna get technical

Life's huge rip off of each other in general

I'm just being myself in this world of hell

If you have originality that's all that counts

But if you're aiming to be someone in particular

Then a copycat is found just a clone whatcha think now?

While you sit there & label us, we can try our damnedest

We're still like someone else don't matter how ya brand it

Even if you made it, it's been done before

Differences mean hated, don't matter what you go for

But this is who I am & I'll be goddamned

If you expect me to change for some traits for another man

Now ripping off someone becomes consequential

'Cause I can't stand someone using the stencils

Yet, still I'm accused with verbal abuse, people obtuse

Narrow minds are so damn loose

We all have a style homemade or stolen

The best are always misunderstood, don't argue 'cause I'm knowing

Nothing's wrong or odd about a few commonalities

But if you're just a wannabe, don't even bother me

I'm just a mix & influenced not a fake or thief, I was never into it

I'm nobody but myself & overlooked like clouds

You can't accuse me of stealing for resembling a sound with me

There's a lot to see I'm not a wannabe of ICP, Brotha Lynch, Eminem of Slipknot

Many of you think so, you're dumb with shit-talk

Labels & stereotypes make me hit jaws

Some of you don't care what ya look or sound like

& some of you ain't shit but should be flushed down pipes

It's a trait of the hater attitude to speak what you don't know

So, until you do shut your fuckin hole

I'm not a biter, I'm a fighter burning shit like a lighter

I'm not a tracer like you, I'm an original writer

Accusations thrown mainly at misfits or mavericks

Burning up with envy 'cause you're just average

It's no crime to be creative & real

To all my outcasts out there I know how ya feel

Ya see someone out there who sticks out like a sore thumb

Ya make fun 'cause ya don't understand or ain't the 1?

We're not what you think read between the lines

You find us to be freaks but we find the pride

I'll keep my back forever turned on those that don't believe

I'll proceed to be the same 'cause I'm all that I can be

It's amazing how stereotypical people really are.... you look or sound or act a certain way you get stamped with a fuckin label.... Fuck that! Some Things do need to be labeled but not everything.... But ya know what?

I'll proceed to be the same 'cause I'm all that I can be

Copying & developing...are 2 different things be original, but a few things in common don't make you a copier

I'm me.... what are you?