While much of the song can be overly serious to the point of self-parody-a roaming indicator of its now 47-year-old creator’s continued crusade for the right to use teenage shock tactics as he sees fit-it’s hard not to get lost in the music almost 20 years later. The record is one of Eminem’s signature songs, a tale of perseverance and aggression dovetailing perfectly with its companion movie.
1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, but it also minted him as the first rap artist to ever win an Oscar.
Not only did “Lose Yourself” become Eminem’s first No. “Lose Yourself,” the lead single, is a tale of anxiety and mom’s spaghetti from the perspective of Eminem’s character B-Rabbit, leaning into Em’s oppressively technical rhyme schemes to create one of the most recognizable rap songs of all time. Released six months after Em’s fourth studio album The Eminem Show broke sales records worldwide, 2002’s 8 Mile served as a victory lap set to celluloid. If you had one shot, one opportunity to create a song for a fictionalized version of your life, would you capture it? Or just let it slip? The story of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” is a rap industry legend. JAY-Z, Amil, and Ja Rule’s “Can I Get A…” from Rush Hour 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Golden Raspberry for Worst Original Song in the same year. “Wild Wild West,” which had all the charm of a song like Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” but without the youth-driven staying power, debuted at No. “Wild Wild West” is the best kind of perfunctory pop, a machine-bred snack meant to pass through your system and leave nothing but a reminder of its existence throughout your intestinal tract. The film also features one of the catchiest earworms ever to grace a movie soundtrack in “Wild Wild West,” in which Smith raps the plot of the movie over an anxious interpolation of Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish.” Kool Moe Dee (recruited to recreate the hook of his song, also titled “I Wish”) and Dru Hill croon for dear life on the hook. I know it’s a silly and overambitious remake of an obscure Western TV show, but the banter between Will Smith and Kevin Kline is killer, and the mechanical spider is still a sight to behold. Let me be clear: Wild Wild West is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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