Role Model Lyrics – Eminem
Eminem himself talked about this song in the book “The Angry Blonde” saying:“I was just fucking around when I made this song. To me it’s just a rap record. The message behind it was just complete sarcasm. I wanted to be clear: Don’t look at me like I’m a fucking role model. Dre and I were in the studio at his house, and he had made the track first. I had started a rhyme the night before and I hadn’t finished it yet. When I heard the track, I said "Yo Dre, I got a rhyme that goes with that” I finished the rhyme and started writing the song in the studio. I finished the first verse, knocked out the second verse, and then I wrote a hook. Then Mel-Man thought of the part that goes “Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me?” I said “Yo that’s perfect”, ‘cause I was talking about the same shit. You know, smoke weed, take pills, drop out of school and all that shit, So he had that part of the hook and I filled in all the blanks. “I came to the club drunk with a fake ID / Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me!” This was one of the first three songs I did with Dre when we began working together.“
| Song Name : | Role Model |
| Album / Movie : | The Slim Shady LP |
| Singer : | Eminem |
| Music Label : | Interscope Records |
| Cast : | Eminem |
Okay, I’m going to attempt to drown myselfYou can try this at homeYou can be just like meMic check one two, we recording?
I’m cancerous so when I diss you wouldn’t want to answer thisIf you responded back with a battle rap you wrote for CanibusI strangle you to death then I choke you againAnd break your fucking legs till your bones poke through your skinYou beef with me, I’mma even the score equallyTake you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legallyI get too blunted off of funny home grown, ’cause when I smoke out I hit the trees harder than Sonny BonoSo if I said I never did drugs, that would mean I lie and get fucked more than the President doesHilary Clinton tried to slap me and call me a pervertI ripped her fucking tonsils out and fed her sherbetMy nerves hurt, and lately I’m on edgeGrabbed Vanilla Ice and ripped out his blond dreadsEvery girl I ever went out with has gone lesFollow me and do exactly what the song saysSmoke weed, take pills, drop out of school, kill people and drinkJump behind the wheel like it was still legalI’m dumb enough to walk in a store and stealSo I’m dumb enough to ask for a date with Lauryn HillSome people only see that I’m white, ignorin’ skill‘Cause I stand out like a green hat with a orange bill
But I don’t get pissed, y’all don’t even see through the mist
How the fuck can I be white?
I don’t even existI get a clean shave, bathe, go to a rave, die from an overdose and dig myself up out of my grave
My middle finger won’t go down, how do I wave?
And this is how I’m supposed to teach kids how to behave?
Now follow me and do exactly what you seeDon’t you want to grow up to be just like me?
I slap women and eat ‘shrooms then ODNow don’t you want to grow up to be just like me?
Me and Marcus Allen went over to see NicoleWhen we heard a knock at the door, must have been Ron GoldJumped behind the door, put the orgy on holdKilled them both and smeared blood in a white BroncoMy mind won’t work if my spine don’t jerkI slapped Garth Brooks out of his rhinestone shirtI’m not a player, just a ill rhyme sayer that’ll spray a aerosol can up at the ozone layerMy rap style’s warpedI’m running out the morgue with your dead grandmother’s corpse to throw it on your porchJumped in a Chickenhawk cartoon with a cape on
And beat up Foghorn Leghorn with an acornI’m about as normal as Norman Bates with deformative traitsA premature birth that was four minutes late
Mother, are you there?I love youI never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel
Will someone please explain to my brain that I just severed a main vein with a chainsaw and I’m in pain?I take a breather and sigh, either I’m high or I’m nuts‘Cause if you ain’t tilting this room, neither am I
So when you see your mom with a thermometer shoved in her ass, then it probably is obvious I got it on with her‘Cause when I drop this solo shit, it’s over withI bought Cage’s tape, opened it and dubbed over it
I came to the club drunk with a fake IDDon’t you want to grow up to be just like me?I’ve been with 10 women who got HIVNow don’t you want to grow up to be just like me?I got genital warts and it burns when I peeDon’t you want to grow up to be just like me?I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a treeYou probably want to grow up to be just like me