| “Lose Yourself” | |||||
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| Single by Eminem from the album 8 Mile Soundtrack |
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| Released | October 22, 2002 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Rapcore | ||||
| Length | 5:31 | ||||
| Label | Shady/Aftermath/Interscope | ||||
| Producer | Eminem; Luis Resto; Jeff Bass | ||||
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"Lose Yourself" is a hip hop song, music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto; Lyrics by Eminem. Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972 known as Slim Shady and his primary Stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award -winning Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile is the official music Soundtrack to the 2002 movie 8 Mile, starring Eminem Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an Optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Rap rock is a fusion genre of rock and hip-hop. It blends vocal and instrumental parts of hip-hop and various forms of rock including punk and rock In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Shady Records There is also another similarly titled record label Aftermath Music, which is based in Norway. Interscope Records is an American Record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972 known as Slim Shady and his primary Stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award -winning Luis Resto (born September 21, 1960 in Juncos Puerto Rico) is a former Welterweight professional boxer from Bronx New York Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass the Detroit producers responsible for grooming rapper Eminem in his early days and collaborating on Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972 known as Slim Shady and his primary Stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award -winning " My Dad's Gone Crazy " is a song by Detroit Rapper Eminem (featuring Hailie Jade) from the album The Eminem Show. " Cleanin' Out My Closet " released in 2002. It was from his worldwide hit album The Eminem Show, which was also released that year Hip hop is a cultural movement which developed in New York City in the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latinos. Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17 1972 known as Slim Shady and his primary Stage name Eminem, is an Academy Award -winning It was released in 2002 as part of the soundtrack to the film 8 Mile, also starring Eminem. Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile is the official music Soundtrack to the 2002 movie 8 Mile, starring Eminem 8 Mile is a 2002 American Drama film, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, The song had additional production by Luis Resto and Jeff Bass. Luis Resto (born September 21, 1960 in Juncos Puerto Rico) is a former Welterweight professional boxer from Bronx New York Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass the Detroit producers responsible for grooming rapper Eminem in his early days and collaborating on
This is perhaps Eminem's most well-known song and his most successful, reaching the top of many charts around the world, including the Billboard Hot 100, the UK Singles Chart, and the United World Chart, among others. Record chart are a method of ranking Music according to Popularity during a given period of time See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, two Grammy Awards, and two other Grammy nominations. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards)—or Grammys —are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences The song is ranked 4th in the 100 greatest songs of the past 25 years by VH1. VH1 (known as VH-1 Video Hits One from 1985 to 1994 and VH1 Music First until 2003) is an American Cable television [1]
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Writing process
The song was written by Eminem during a break of the filming of 8 Mile. He wrote it in a portable studio on the set, writing all three verses in one take. The sheet on which he wrote the song appears in 8 Mile in a scene where his character is writing while riding the bus. 8 Mile is a 2002 American Drama film, directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eminem, Kim Basinger, This sheet was sold on eBay for $10,000. eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and
The song's lyrics explicitly sum up the background info about Eminem's character in 8 Mile, B. Rabbit, with the first verse summing up much of the plot of the movie.
The song's general production style is similar in scope to the track "'Till I Collapse" from The Eminem Show (released before 8 Mile). The Eminem Show is the fourth Studio album by Eminem, released in 2002. Both tracks begin with an interlude punctuated by a piano, followed by a gradual introduction of the beat, accompanied by a spoken introduction by Eminem. Both tracks also prominently feature a bass loop and some guitar elements. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles
Success
"Lose Yourself" is the most successful single of Eminem's mainstream career. It had a 12-week run at #1 in the United States & Australia, and topped the charts in many other countries as well, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Denmark among others. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe It debuted at number nine in Canada and moved up to #1 the following week. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page According to the Guinness Book Of World Records "Lose Yourself" became the Longest Running Single at Number One for a Rap Artist making it the most successful rap song in history. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U
In the United States, "Lose Yourself" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart the week of October 5, 2002, at #43. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. A week later, the single jumped to #18, and hit #1 by November 9. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all The single spent 16 total weeks in the Top 10, and a total of 23 weeks in the Top 50. While in the #1 spot (from 11/09/02 through 1/25/03), "Lose Yourself"'s impressive run kept several top contenders for the #1 spot from ever reaching #1, including Jay-Z, Nelly, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, and especially Missy Elliott, whose single "Work It" was at #2 for 10 weeks. Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1969 better known as Jay-Z, is an American Rapper and former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Cornell Haynes Jr (born November 2 1974 Highly successful Nelly has sold over 20 million records in the United States Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July Christina María Aguilera (born December 18 1980 is an American pop / R&B Singer and Songwriter. Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott (born July 1 1971 is a five-time Grammy Award -winning American rapper, singer, Songwriter, and " Work It " is a hip hop song written by American rapper/singer Missy Elliott and her producer Tim "Timbaland" Mosley for Elliott's
The song went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Song (the first time a rap song ever won this award), upsetting the favored song "The Hands That Built America" by U2. The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture " The Hands That Built America " is a song by U2, released on the soundtrack to the film Gangs of New York. It is rumored that Eminem, who was not present at the award ceremony believing he would not win for a rap song, was sleeping at the time the award was announced. This was the first time in 14 years the winner of the Best Original Song category was not performed at the ceremony. Luis Resto, one of the song's co-writers, had attended the ceremony and accepted the award instead. Luis Resto (born September 21, 1960 in Juncos Puerto Rico) is a former Welterweight professional boxer from Bronx New York "He's creative, he has symphonies in his head," Resto said at the podium about Eminem. [2] The American Film Institute later ranked it #93 on their list of the 100 Greatest Songs from American Films.
At the Grammy Awards of 2004, "Lose Yourself" became Eminem's second career nomination for Record of the Year (following "Without Me"), and the first rap song ever to be nominated for Song of the Year. The American Film Institute ( AFI) is an independent Non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 Part of the AFI 100 Years series, AFI's 100 Years 100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema The 46th Grammy Awards were held on the February 8, 2004. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year The Record of the Year is one of the four most prestigious Grammy Awards presented annually " Without Me " is a song by Rapper Eminem from his album The Eminem Show. The Song of the Year is one of the four most prestigious awards in the Grammy Awards ceremony, if not in all of the American music industry It won Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song, which was a brand new category at the time. The Grammy Award for Best Male Rap Solo Performance has been awarded since 2003 alongside the Grammy Award for Best Female Rap Solo Performance. The Grammy Award for Best Rap Song was first awarded in 2004 It is a songwriting award given to all who wrote the lyrics and music of the song
At #166, "Lose Yourself" is the highest ranked of the three songs from the 21st century featured in the 2004 List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (joining "Stan" at #290). The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. " Stan " is the third single from The Marshall Mathers LP, by Rapper Eminem featuring Dido. Outkast's "Hey Ya!" was the other, at #180. Outkast (typeset as OutKast) is a Grammy Award -winning American hip hop duo based out of East Point Georgia, a city " Hey Ya! " is a hip hop song written and produced by André 3000 for his 2003 album The Love Below, part of OutKast 's Double
"Lose Yourself" was later released on Eminem's compilation album, Curtain Call: The Hits, in 2005. A compilation album is an Album ( Music or Spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple Recording artists, often culled from a variety of Curtain Call the Hits is a 2005 Compilation album by the Rapper Eminem.
The song (more specifically the tune rather than theme) is also an inspiration to Keane's "Nothing in My Way" as stated by Tim Rice-Oxley in the Keane podcast.
Music video
The music video for "Lose Yourself" was filmed in Detroit, Michigan, and thus contains numerous shots of the city, including of the Ambassador Bridge. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics The Ambassador Bridge is a Privately-owned Suspension bridge that connects Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, with Windsor The video is a mixture of multiple scenarios, including scenes from and reminiscent of the movie 8 Mile, and Eminem rapping next to the "8 Mile Rd. Mobile Court" sign that appears on the cover of the movie's soundtrack.
It contains scenes focusing on Rabbit's and the real life Eminem's character, for example, the difficulties he has to face while rapping, the insult and booing of crowds as he is a white rapper and the trouble he has to face due to his alcoholic mother and people he hangs out with.
He won a Much Music Video Awards in 2003 for Favourite International Artist with the video for "Lose Yourself". MuchMusic (often referred to only as Much) is a Canadian English language Cable television Specialty channel owned by CTVglobemedia
At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards it received the award for Best Video from a Film in the final year this award was given out. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top Music videos of the year The following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Video from a Film. It also received nominations for Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Rap Video, and Viewer's Choice
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In culture
- The Croatian band Vatrogasci did a parody of this song titled 'Izgubi Se,' which loosely translates to 'Lose Yourself' in English. Argentina Top 40 is the Ranking of the 40 most played and requested tracks all over the country The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. Ultratop 50 is the chart of best selling singles in Flanders. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Dutch Top 40 ( Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly Music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40" because the Pirate radio channel Radio The official Music Charts in Germany are collected and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband der phonographischen Wirtschaft (Federal The Irish Singles Chart is the Republic of Ireland music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association The México Top 100 is a weekly-compiled musical chart that shows the top 100 songs in airplay and sales in Mexico. The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ is a non-profit trade association of Record producers, distributors and recording artists in New The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC on behalf of the British record industry A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject
- "Weird Al" Yankovic made a parody of the song, titled "Couch Potato", on his 2003 album Poodle Hat. Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (ˈjæŋkəvɪk born October 23 1959 is a Grammy Award winning American singer Musician, actor satirist A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject " Couch Potato " is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Poodle Hat is the eleventh Album by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Eminem had given him permission to parody the song, but not to produce a music video for the parody. Al has also released a t-shirt in his online store that parodies the 8 Mile movie poster.
- The Teen drama series Instant Star named it season premiere episode after this song. Instant Star was a Canadian Television program and a Gemini Award winner starring adolescent music competition winner Jude
- The music video is parodied in the movie "Scary Movie 3".
- In 2003 the Australian comedy duo Scared Weird Little Guys produced a rap version of the folk song "Waltzing Matilda" called "Cleanin' Out My Tuckerbag", which parodies both "Lose Yourself" and "Cleanin' Out My Closet", but does not credit Eminem. Scared Weird Little Guys (also referred to as SWLG or The Scaredies are an Australian Comedy music duo formed in July 1990 "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia 's most widely known country Folk song, and has been referred to as 'the unofficial national anthem of Australia' " Cleanin' Out My Closet " released in 2002. It was from his worldwide hit album The Eminem Show, which was also released that year
- Queen + Paul Rodgers used the song as the house music for all of the concerts on their 2005–2006 tours. The Queen + Paul Rodgers collaboration began in late 2004 when Queen were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour was a world Concert tour by Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, joined by singer Paul Rodgers
- On May 15, 2006, Jodie Foster quoted the chorus of the song in her commencement speech at the University of Pennsylvania. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19 1962 is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe -award winning American UNHGradjpg|thumb|right| George H W Bush and Bill Clinton speaking at the University of New Hampshire commencement The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [3]
- During an October 2006 interview with the K102 Morning Crew in (Minneapolis, MN), country artist Taylor Swift did an acoustic rendition of the intro and first verse of "Lose Yourself" live on the air, citing it as her favorite workout song. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13 1989 is an American Country music artist who began her career as a teenager
- Apologetix has made a parody called Look Yourself.
- Many athletic teams use this song over their PA system before important home games. An example would be the Clemson Tigers playing the song before kickoff in their 2007 football game against Boston College. The Clemson Tigers are any team that represents Clemson University as a member of the NCAA 's Division I or in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast For similarly-named academic institutions see Education in Boston MA. This game marked Clemson's first chance to earn a spot in the ACC Championship Game. The Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game is an American College football game held on the first Saturday in December by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC
- The show Robot Chicken parodied part of the film in the rapping sequence involving Bugs Bunny and a collection of other Looney Tune characters. Robot Chicken is an Emmy -Award Winning American Stop motion animated television series created by Seth Green and Matthew Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 [4]
- The Belgian comedian Chris Van den Durpel made a parody titled: "rijbewijs", which translates to 'driving licence', shown in his TV-show "Chris & Co".
- Part of the tune of the song is used as the theme music on the German detective series Lenßen & Partner.
- Lupe Fiasco sampled this song on his track "Lu Myself" on his mixtape, Lupe the Jedi. Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16 1982 better known by his Stage name Lupe Fiasco, is a Grammy -winning American rapper.
| Preceded by "Dilemma" by Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single November 9, 2002- January 25, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Bump, Bump, Bump" by B2K featuring P. Diddy |
| Preceded by "Born to Try" by Delta Goodrem |
ARIA (Australia) number one single December 8, 2002 - February 23, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera |
| Preceded by "If You're Not The One" by Daniel Bedingfield |
UK number one single December 8, 2002 - December 14, 2002 |
Succeeded by "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" by Blue and Elton John |
| Preceded by "Die Another Day" by Madonna |
United World Chart number one single January 11, 2003 - January 25, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Feel" by Robbie Williams |
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| Preceded by "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. by Randy Newman |
Academy Award for Best Original Song 2002 |
Succeeded by "Into the West" from Return of the King by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox |
References
- ^ "Lose Yourself", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 17, 2008)
- ^ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 17, 2008)
- ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 17, 2008)
- ^ UK Singles Chart Everyhit.com (Retrieved April 17, 2008)
- ^ Billboard allmusic.com (Retrieved April 17, 2008)
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