I’m the Man Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh-oh!
Not!,NOT!
Yeah!

[Verse 1]
Now we're Anthrax and we take no shit
And we don't care for writing hits
The sound you hear is what we like
And I'll steal your Pop Tarts like I stole your
-- Socks!

Yo, man, what's the matter with you? (Not!)
-- I'll get it the next time, I mean it...


[Verse 2]
Charlie...
Beat the beats the beats you beat
The only thing hard is the smell of my feet (P-U!)
So listen up 'cause you might get dissed
Go drain your lizard or take a -- Chair!
(Damn, come on, y'all live the street)
Man, watch the beat!

[Chorus 1]
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
I'll kick you and your father back in place
Step off, sucker, understand
Don't you know that I'm the man?
I'm the man, I'm so bad I should be in detention

Shu-shu-shut up
[Verse 3]
We've got real def rhythms and fresh new jams
If you think we got egos, well, we're just hams
Scott plays stickball and likes to skate
Frank is never on time he's always...
-- Sleeping!
"Late!" (Oh man)

[Verse 4]
They drink the drinks, the drinks they drank
I put my money in the bank
They cut their crack, they offer us joints
We don't do drugs, do you get our...
-- Meaning!
"Point!" (Not!) It's "Point!" (Not!)
Watch the beat!

[Chorus 2]
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
I'll kick you and your father back in place
Step off, sucker, understand
Don't you know that I'm the man?
I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!

I'm the man!
Shut up!
[Verse 5]
For a heavy metal band rap's a different way
We like to be different and not cliche
They say rap and metal can never mix
Well all of them can suck our...
-- Sexual organ located in the lower abdominal area!
No man, it's "dick!" --Oh-oh!

MASTER!

[Verse 6]
Danny farted the farts, the farts he farted
I pick my nose but I'm not retarded
Like El Duce says "smell my anal vapor"
And wipe my butt with your...
-- Face!
"Toilet paper!" Yo, watch the beat!

(Yeah!)

[Chorus 2]
I'm on your case, I'm in your face
I'll kick you and your father back in place
Step up, sucker, understand
Don't you know that I'm the man?
I'm the man!
I'm bad! I'm so bad I should be in detention!
I'm the man!
Shut up!
[Verse 7]
So, as this rap is winding down
It's plain to see we wear the crown
You know Anthrax is number one
But we don't care, we just wanna have...
-- A festival!
"Fun", you stupid idiot! (I need more sound)

Joey mailed the mail the mail he mails
We are the kings and all shall hail
We're like a diamond that is forever
And we'll remain the hardest ever

[Outro]
(Shut up!)
I'm so bad, it's a crime
Head check
Oh-oh!
(Oh, and there it is again)
Not
(Not! Not! Not! Not! Not!)

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About

Genius Annotation

The title track of the 1987 EP of the same name, it’s a comedy/novelty song which parodies the style of the Beastie Boys, as well as the main guitar riff being based on the melody of the Jewish folk song “Hava Nagila” (guitarists Scott Ian and Dan Spitz—as well as all the members of the Beastie Boys—are Jewish). On live performances, Joey Belladonna and Charlie Benante would switch places, Benante performing some of the raps and Belladonna drumming.

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What did Anthrax say about "I'm the Man"?
Genius Answer

Guitarist Scott Ian told The Quietus in 2016:

‘I’m The Man’ was written basically as an homage: ‘Here’s the type of rap music we’re listening to. We’re gonna do our best to basically write a song that represents what we’re into.’ To my mind, as a fan and a critic, it fails miserably because it’s so infantile compared to Licensed To Ill or Raising Hell. But at the same time, the spirit and the energy is there. We’re not rappers; we just did the best we could. We wrote the most ridiculous inside-joke lyrics we could write about ourselves and totally took the piss out of ourselves and put it to the Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila’. Completely ridiculous. Literally working on it and saying, ‘No, those lyrics aren’t stupid enough. Make them stupider.’ That was the thought process behind that song and originally the Beastie Boys were going to be on it. We had reached out to them and asked those guys, ‘We’re writing this song, it’s going to be rap-metal-whatever and would you guys like to be on it?’ They were like, ‘Hell, yeah. Where and when? We’ll totally do it.’ Then we finished recording it and we were just so happy with it. We didn’t really know where there would even be room to have them on it. In retrospect, I kinda wish they would’ve been on it because it would’ve been amazing to document that. At that time period, we would’ve had the Beastie Boys right when they broke massive worldwide, we would’ve had them on our song too, but those aren’t the paths we took.

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