Released: October 14, 2009

Songwriter: Watsky

[Intro]
Alright, first of all—there's already a popular reggae artist with the name Elephant Man. Second of all, as my mother always said to me, there’s nothing cooler than being yourself. And third of all, and most importantly...
(clears throat)

[Chorus]
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fucking emcee name)
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)

[Verse 1]
If I go spit a poem If I go kick a flow
Doesn't really matter man cause the jam is a Watsky
When I get a mic and I go rip a rhythm ain't a name in the whole damn game gonna stop me
Probably gonna rip it too
'Cause the city wants a hippy with a bit to prove
I got shit to do I got the sickest crew
And so what the fuck is it to you, dude?
If I got no stage name I got stage game out the ass
And a master plan, It's an avalanche
When I spit a little bit of slam
And I hit you with the battleram
Got a cattle brand "GW bar none" so what do you park man?
Got money and cars? damn, I study the stars
And I couldn't care less who you rep in your set show respect
I'll be rapping I bet
Lean to the left flow right Oh my god!
A rose by any name got thorns as sharp
Yo, stage names are for porno stars
And Watskeet skeet skeet skeet is far
From what I'm trying to do, who I'm trying to be
Mother f-f-f-fuck this industry
If I gotta be MC U to do MC Me
Georgewatsky.mp3
F-F-F-F-Fuck the limit I got a keep it coming if I wanna make it to the top
'Cause I be giving you what I been doing during the minutes that other rappers have been napping on the clock
'Cause if I walk the walk and I talk the talk and I'm popping off 'cause my flow is hot
Then I'm pretty motherfucking positive I never gotta try to be somebody I'm not

[Chorus]
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fucking emcee name)
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)

[Verse 2]
What's in a name, man, flow comes first
I'm never gonna curse—that I got it worst when I roam the earth
It's a ridiculous coincidence that shows my worth
You know my parents went and chose my emcee name at birth
I don't need a mask To cover my ass
So why would you ask? Go put me on blast
I'll take you to task
This name is my last (gasp) so put it on my tombstone when I pass
(Here lies a fine emcee, the kind who grasps the fact
That these aren't circus acts to make you clap, it's rap to make you think and act)
I think you understand by now the thought involved
That if I wanted to be called another name I would have scrawled it on the bathroom wall
I'm not apologizing for a policy that makes a college kid go call himself Thugdog and not expect assault
I'm marching on and calling all dissenters who
Would like to be included in this emcee designation coup
I'm set to get a crew
We're gonna get a clue and then we'll put it up for you to view
Coo coo ca choo I am the "insert you"
Come on everybody do it too

[Chorus]
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)

[Interlude]
I invoke the spirits of the great nameless emcees who came before me:
2Pac Shakur
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Sean Price
Saul Williams
Dahlak Brathwaite
Michael Franti
Gabriel Teodros
Joell Ortiz
Mike Jones
Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park
I invoke the spirits of the great nameless professional athletes turned rappers who came before me:
Deion Sanders
Roy Jones Jr
Shaquille O'Neal
I invoke the spirits of the great nameless white emcees who came before me:
Fred Durst
Aaron Carter
Kevin Federline
Ommm...

[Chorus]
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name!
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
(George Watsky doesn't need a fuckin' emcee name)

[Outro]
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
F-F-F-F-Fuck an emcee name
I don't need a goddamn emcee name
I got nothing to hide, you got something to say?
F-F-F-F-Fuck the limit I got a keep it coming if I wanna make it to the top
'Cause I be giving you what I been doing during the minutes that other rappers have been napping on the clock
'Cause if I walk the walk and I talk the talk and I'm popping off cause my flow is hot
Then I'm pretty motherfucking positive I never gotta call myself somebody I'm not

Watsky

A successful slam poet turned rapper, Watsky first gained attention through ‘Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry,’ and a later burst of viral success for his fast rapping. At every turn, Watsky has refused to be pigeonholed, following up his speed rap success with 2013 LP Cardboard Castles, an eccentric ode to creativity, and 2014’s Anderson. Paak-produced All You Can Do. After a hiatus to work on new material, Watsky pivots again, this time to prose, returning simultaneously with the essay collection How To Ruin Everything, published by Plume/Penguin-Random House, of which Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda writes, “funny, subversive […] you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition.” How To Ruin Everything debuted in the New York Times best-selling list. In total, he has created five studio albums and two live albums. Watsky released his fifth album, x INFINITY August 2016, describing it as his most ambitious project yet. Most recently, in January of 2019, he released a short album called Complaint.