I first burnt Get Rich or Die Tryin' off my cousin who also gave me a copy of the life-changing E. 1999 Eternal — adjusting to 50's minimalistic flow took months and months because his radio contemporaries were dextrous expressionists like Eminem and Busta Rhymes, experimentalists like Missy, sentimentalists like Nelly and Ja Rule
World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road. I'm a man. I'm a make a new plan. Time for me to just stand up and travel new land. Time for me to just take matters into my own hands. Once I'm over these tracks, man I'ma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone. I know right where I'm going.
Curtis Hanson's "8 Mile," a not-really-but-kind-of biography of Eminem in which the rapper himself stars, is straightforward, rudimentary, old-fashioned moviemaking, cranking away in the service
By the time he landed his first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, Eminem was already one of the most famous men in America.8 Mile tells a story of its Eminem character trying to fight for
Related: Friends Forever: A Timeline Of 50 Cent And Eminem's 2 Decades Of Friendship. 8-Mile also mirrors similarities between Eminem and his own mother, something he has made very well known in songs like Cleanin' Out My Closet and My Mom, and an up-and-down relationship with his partner, similar to what Eminem experienced with Kim.
Eminem fans across the globe are well aware of the rapper’s famous 8 Mile battle scene with Papa Doc, which establishes him as the champion of the Shelter (a place where the rap battles take
Eminem. Actor: 8 Mile. Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Deborah R. (Nelson) and Marshall Bruce Mathers, Jr., who were in a band together, Daddy Warbucks. He is of English, as well as some German, Scottish, and Swiss-German, ancestry. Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of D5M60.