Canibus - My Name Is Nobody Intro lyrics

You know this rap game is
A lot like high school
And high school is a lot like life you see
In life you gotta do things that
Set yourself apart from your peers
You need to identify the qualities that
Separate you from those around you
After all, isn't that what most people spend
Their lives trying to accomplish?
Wouldn't we all want somebody somewhere
Later on down the line
To remember the things that
Were different about us?
Don't you understand? The more you fit in
The less you're noticed? That's how it is
For anyonе to walk through life
Unnoticed as if they nеver mattered
Could be a punishment worse than death
And at the same time
That punishment is the only way
You can truly be free
Free from the things you want
People to remember about you
But also free from the things
You want them to forget
I don't know if that freedom
Exists for me anymore
And even though I dream about
What it would be like, it's just a dream
Because I realize now more than ever, that I
Can't have my cake and eat it, too
No one can, and as time goes on
We will always be loved by
Some and hated by others
And whether the people who talk bad
About you know it or not
They really save you from obscurity every
Time they mention your name
You see, anytime anybody ever talks about you
Either directly or indirectly
They put a quarter in your immortal meter
They keep you alive
Whether they want to or not
They practically do the opposite of
What they wanna do, which is forget you
I dedicate this song
To the day when you motherfuckers
Finally figure it out
And the day that you bury me
And erase the memory of me here lies a man
Who became forgotten to the world
In his search to the key for immortality
He never made an impact, he changed nothing
And his words meant nothing
He never contributed to the rap game
He never gave you anything to talk about
He never existed
And he never made a difference
His name was Nobody