Eminem | "Lose Yourself"

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First single from the 8 Mile soundtrack, released in 2002. It was Eminem's first Hot 100 #1, spending 12 weeks at the top. It also hit #1 in over 20 other countries worldwide. It became the first rap song ever to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was also the first rap song to ever be nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year. While it lost the award, it did win Grammys for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song. While the song's release predated the digital downloads explosion, it has still managed to sell over 5 million downloads in the US alone.

This is a rap classic. This and "Stan" are my favorites by him.

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I like it.

[think pink.]

His best song & one of the best hip-hop tracks of all time.

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Classic.

[ChicaCherry콜라]

I just watched 8 Mile again the other day and it resurrected my respect for Eminem. Gosh this song is absolutely amazing! I've never been a fan of rap at all, but I've always adored Eminem. I don't know what it is about his music, but he's the only rap artist I support and listen to.

[Au$tin]

I've come to love this song a lot more than I did when it first came out.

[halo19]

I've always loved it.
By this point, Eminem really had my good side. Pretty much from the 1999 commercial breakthrough through the 2003 singles.
It hasn't quite been the same since then, but not everything has been a clunker since.

[JCMF3]

Apr 15, 2013 15:22:13 GMT -5 think pink. said:

His best song

[Glove Slap]

A true classic of the early 00s. He really went all out with this. Still as powerful today as it was when I first heard it.

[Live Your Life]

Excellent.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Classic song from his peak. Used to hear this alot on Miami's Y-100 station. One of his best ever.

[Fire]

this is cool.

[Trilogy]

palms spaghetti

[disman00911]

I watched "8 Mile" around the time it came out and it was a well-done movie.  Lyrically powerful for sure but I didn't really enjoy this song as much some of his other material from the early 2000s (such as "Stan", "The Way I Am", etc) due to excessive overplay on the radio and in sporting events. Still one of Eminem's best efforts but "Stan" remains the greatest song he ever did. 

On a side note, I often heard this song and "Without Me" used in various mashups that I heard back then.

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A true bop

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Bilboard's list of 100 Greatest Songs of 2002.

www.billboard.com/lists/best-2002-songs-hits/paul-oakenfold-feat-shifty-shellshock-starry-eyed-surprise/


#5

[JukeboxJacob]

One of the best rap songs of all time

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#150 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs

You Know What It Is: Technically the theme song from 8 Mile, and also arguably the biggest song of Em’s career, as well as great a pump-up song as exists in modern pop.

This Magic Moment: “Here I go it’s my shot!/ Feet fail me not!/ This may be the only opportunity that I got!” is the fully shouted moment-of-truth, now or never climax the entire song is centered around.

Because of You: In 2002, by which time Eminem had already caused a not insignificant amount of moral panic, few could have predicted that 20 years later, he’d get one of the biggest cheers of the night while performing “Lose Yourself” during the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show.