Music Video: Maino - Be Me

Lyrics to Be Me by Maino

[Intro]
Yea
Yea yea yea
But I can only be me my ****a
I'm not onyx ****a
yea cmon man

[Chorus]
I ain't Big homie
I ain't Jay-Z
I can't do it like Snoop
Baby that ain't me
I can be me
Imma be me
I can't copy no man
Imma be me
Look how Diddy dance
I can't do that
And I don't wear my clothes
Like Jim Jones
You know that
I can only be me
Imma be me
I can't be what I'm not
Imma be me

[Verse 1]
I don't immitate
I initiate
And now I sound like no body
Let's set it straight
I dont rap like Jadakiss
I'm different
And I ain't just talkin on records
I'm really livin it
I ain't Wayne
I ain't Game
Aint none of em
Imma be myself
I'm trying to be like none of em
Look at what we done wit crack
We gone do the same wit Rap
Homie I ain't Fab
****a shoot me I shoot him back
So forgive me
If I ain't your favorite rapper
I'm just a thug on a song
I don't play wit rappers
The second coming of none
It's the first of me
And to put it more blunt
Imma be me

[Chorus]
I ain't Nas, baby
I ain't Mobb Deep
I know you lookin for Jeezy
But that ain't me
I can be me
Imma be me
I can't copy no man
Imma be me
Kanye make beats
I can't do that
You can't expect me to be 50
And you know that
I can only be me
Imma be me
I can't be what I'm not
Imma be me


[Verse 2]
This is me respect me for who I am
Don't expect me to emulate another man
I'm not the next Pac
I ain't the next Big
I'm just me my ****a
I get it how I live
You hear that pain in me
Ain't nothin' fake with me
I can't be what i'm not
Dog that ain't in me
I'm the truth
it's hard for me to live a lie
I can't sound like I'm from the south
I'm from the Stuy (BEDSTUY projects in brooklyn)
Real ****as they love me for doing what i do
The streets know I don't make songs like Common do
I don't jump around like in Busta video
But I lay a ****a down like that busta video

[Chorus]
My ****a B.G.
My ****a T.I.P.
I know they love outkast
But that ain't me
I could be me
Imma be me
I can't copy no man
Imma be me
Look at Akon sing
I can't do that
And I don't make song like Talib
You know that
I can only be me
Imma be me
I can't be what I'm not
Imma be me


[Verse 3]
I make my music
Shit that I like music
Me bein' me
Original fight music
Hard street music
Stay in a beef music
See a ****a shoot
You poppin' your heat music
It's not Cam music
****a this is man music
First day home
Fresh out of the can music
Straight music
None of that mase music
Black bandana tied to your face music
Thug music ****a I'm not Ludacris
Drug music listen to how I'm doing this
Real music accept or refuse it
And you all ready know exactly who it is

[Chorus]
I ain't big homie
I ain't Jay-Z
I can't do it like Snoop
Baby that ain't me
I can be me
Imma be me
I can't copy no man
Imma be me
Look how diddy dance
I can't do that
And I don't wear my clothes
Like Jim Jones
You know that
I can only be me
Imma be me
I can't be what I'm not
Imma be me

[Lyrics corrected by Tim Duffy]