,-,'-{Bar}-',-, wrote:honestly if your a huge eminem fan then lose yourself is an amazing eminem track but i think em has better tracks than lose yourself (cleaning out my closet, till i collapse, just dont give a fuck ect.) when i first heard it i was pretty young and groupie it was the most amazing thing ever, now that i know hip hop it aint that great for me, wether or not you think its coz it played out in my head thats up to you but i dont praise loser yourself that much, excellent eminem track but not his best and not the best on 8-mile soundtrack.
I don't think he has better songs than Lose Yourself, but I do think he has other songs on that level. For me Till I Collapse, Bully, Sing For The Moment, Rock Bottom, etc. are all on that level, but not quite as special as Lose Yourself. You don't even have to be a fan of rap to like Lose Yourself, yet you can ba a huge hip-hop head, and still consider it brilliant. That track is by my own admission overplayed and I've heard it way too many times, to the point where I`m sick of it myself, but I still can't discount the skill involved in the making of it, nor the impact it had when it came out. Eminem at his peak and spitting some of his best shit ever, is pretty much unmatchable. But, we'll say it's a matter of opinion, but I still say technically Lose Yourself is very very hard to beat. The reason you don't praise it that much, is because people already know about it. And when you know something about hip-hop, more than other people know, you praise the shit they don't know about, so you can turn them onto something new. Not ramble on about a song that turned out to be a major mainstream hit and win many awards. Nevertheless it deserves praise.
