“The Way I Am” by Eminem

"The Way I Am" was the second single from The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem's third album, and after the cartoon grin of "The Real Slim Shady" it hits like a slammed door: darker, rawer and far more emotional. It's also one of the rare songs where he has the songwriting credit all to himself, and he produced it too, mixing it with Dr. Dre. Mike Elizondo plays bass, guitar and keyboards, Tommy Coster Jr. adds more keys, and Richard "Segal" Huredia recorded it.

At home it stalled at 58 on the Hot 100, but it went top ten in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Belgium's Wallonia, and it made the cut for his 2005 hits collection, Curtain Call: The Hits.

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