Released: October 25, 1994
Songwriter: Common
Producer: No I.D.
[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")
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")