My Name is Nobody

[Intro]
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

[Hook]
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?

[Verse 1]
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

[Hook]
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?

[Verse 2]
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 units
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

[Hook]
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?

[Verse 3]
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