“This is the only thing I know.”

— Eminem

"Guts Over Fear"
2010s, Shady XV (2014)

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American rapper and actor 1972

Pimp C (1973–2007) Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK

Living this Life
Works with UGK, Underground Kingz (2007)

“It's too late to start over, this is the only thing I know”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Guts Over Fear" (2014)
2010s

“I'd just be the catcher in the rye, and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”

Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Context: Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye, and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.