Canibus - My Name is Nobody 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 anyone to walk through life
Unnoticed as if they never 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

Nobody my name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
What's my name? Say my name! What's my name?

Yo, I never rocked with Nas
I never rocked with Rakim Allah
I never gave y'all a hundred bars
I never walked among the stars
I never rocked a mic on tour
Never made some groupie bitch
Drop her drawers never had a menage-a-trois
With girls lickin' my balls while I eat em'
Nah, I never done that neither
And I never wore that white wife beater
On the video set with the Lost Boyz
And Dogg Pound and smoked reefer
I never had a Source quotable
I never rocked 50 bar vocals on "Beasts
From the East" with Reggie Noble
Never spit with Keith Murray or Little Jamal
I never rocked on stage at the Apollo at all
To this day, if someone asked me "why were
You silver on MTV?"
I have to just tell them it wasn't me
Cause, I'm nobody

My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
What's my name? Say my name! What's my name?

Yo, I never been at the Mardi Gras
Suckin' on ta tas
I never been to LA, or Krissed to Ya Ya's
I never been overseas
I never been to Amsterdam walkin' right
Past the cops smokin' some trees
I never had a battle with
About a dozen emcees
And simultaneously I brought 'em
All to they knees
I never been off the scene too long
Never been totally gone
Never appeared on a shitload of songs
I never rocked with Eminem yet
Yeah that's true
People'll talk about it from now to
The day that I do
But, I never made an impact
I never changed rap in fact
Sometimes I wish I could take it all back
I didn't sell enough unit's
I said I was the illest alive
And I didn't prove it
I probably look stupid
I guess I'm nobody, I guess I'm nobody
I'm so so sorry, my name is nobody

My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
(Nigga, I ain't nobody to know)
My name is nobody, my name is nobody
(Get it?) what's my name? Say my name!
What's my name?

Yo, yo
It's like the rap community doesn't know
What to do with me
What if there was two of me?
What if I persuaded some bitches
To reproduce with me
And create a whole crew of me?
Only those that are as cruel as me
Can rule with me i got a secret let's keep
It between you and me
And when I'm forgotten
You can say this at my eulogy
You can say this at my eulogy
You can say this at my motherfucking eulogy