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Eminem
Track 7 on The Singles
Produced by
Eminem & Jeff Bass
“Lose Yourself” is the theme song from Eminem’s semi-biographical 2002 movie 8 Mile. Eminem is narrating the life of the film’s protagonist, Jimmy, up until the third verse, where Jimmy and Eminem’s journey converge.
Engineer Steven King told Rolling Stone in 2003 that Eminem “laid down all three verses in one take”, which Eminem has since shed doubt on.
Eminem stated in his 2008 autobiography, The Way I Am, that he wrote “in-between shooting scenes [for 8 Mile] and taking care of [his] kids” (pg 108-109.) Scans of the scrawled lyrics on A4 writing pad pages were also featured in the autobiography (pg 217-218.)
In 2014, the demo version appeared on Shady Records’ SHADY XV compilation album, which featured the same beat and tone but almost entirely different lyrics.
Commercially, “Lose Yourself” was hugely successful and reached #1 in 20 countries, including the US. It marked Eminem’s first US #1, and held the top position for 12 weeks, becoming the third-longest chart-topper from a movie soundtrack (behind “I Will Always Love You” and “End Of The Road”). As of 2022, it is 13x Multi-Platinum in the US.
The song was lauded critically, too. It won two Grammys (Best Male Rap Solo Performance & Best Rap Song) and became the first rap song to win the Oscar for Best Original Song. Eminem didn’t attend the ceremony as he didn’t think he’d win, meaning he didn’t perform it, which is atypical for winners of the category. This was remedied when he performed the song at the 2020 Oscars.
The song has also had a huge cultural impact. Apple used the song for two commercials in the mid-‘00s to promote iTunes and the iPod, with Eminem featuring in the latter video. Chrysler used the instrumental and Eminem for their 2011 “Born of Fire” Super Bowl commercial. In 2021, Eminem opened up a restaurant in Detroit called “Mom’s Spaghetti”, which is a lyric that’s been meme’d extensively (even being given its own fan-made song.)
Lose Yourself Lyrics
Intro
Yo, if you could just, for one minute
Or one split second in time, forget everything
Everything that bothers you
All your problems, everything, and follow me
Verse 1
If I was froze inside of a moment
If I could capture time inside a capsule, an hourglass full
Of sand in the palm of my hand, it passes through it
If I can grasp it and just control what happens to it
Then I can trap it, so no more time elapses through it
If raps could do it, maybe I could tap into it
Then I could try to channel it through Cadillacs and Buicks
To transmit through ’em, to make you put your ass into it
And that’s when you hit the roof because you can’t sit through it
Your passions too much for you to not be dancin’ to it
And as you do it, your movements become fast and fluent
You’re mashin’ to it, moshin’ ’til you’re black and bluish
You’re actin’ foolish, this music it has influenced
You to be rowdy but in an orderly fashion, true it’s
Chaotic but it’s got your body movin’ as a unit
Unitin’ together tonight, so make it last and you better just—
Chorus
Lose yourself in this music, this moment
We own it, we won’t never let it go (go)
You better move yourself ’cause tomorrow’s ass can wait
There is no time to sit there and procrastinate (you better)
Lose yourself in this music, this moment
We own it, we won’t never let it go (Go)
You better move yourself ’cause tomorrow’s ass can wait
There is no time to sit there and procrastinate
You better—
Verse 2
As we descend together, we begin to move as one
In perfect unison just like the moon and sun
Illuminate the room and humans soon become aluminum
Rhythmically in sync, if you’ll excuse the pun
But if you could lose it once, I mean if you could let shit go
Relax, take a breath, and just let it exit slow
To rest your soul, you could leave the rest to me
If I could give the world a hit of ecstasy
To make ’em feel the feelin’ that I’m feelin’ right this minute
‘Cause I feel like the night won’t end until I get finished
So close the shades, makin’ sure no light gets in it
The sky’s the limit tonight because the night’s infinite
A high percentage of black people and white mixed in it
But no one really gives a fuck ’cause they just like what’s spinnin’
His life was spinnin’, the whole entire night just spinnin’
Like life’s beginning
To come out from inside your skin and quit hidin’ in it
Chorus
Lose yourself in this music, this moment
We own it, we won’t never let it go (go)
You better move yourself ’cause tomorrow’s ass can wait
There is no time to sit there and procrastinate (you better)
Lose yourself in this music, this moment
We own it, we won’t never let it go (Go)
You better move yourself ’cause tomorrow’s ass can wait
There is no time to sit there and procrastinate
You better—
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