One of the most well known rappers around the globe, failed to disappoint once again
Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, surprised many with his unannounced performance of “Lose Yourself” during the 92nd annual Academy Awards. The 47 year old born and raised in Missouri, USA, had originally blown up after starring in 8 mile, MTV awards’ Best Breakthrough Film in 2003. Mathers had written “Lose Yourself” as a song that describes a specific scene in the movie. To his surprise, the single blew up and charted worldwide becoming his most well known song of all. “Lose Yourself” now has nearly a billion streams on Spotify and is known globally as one of the greatest rap songs to ever be released. For these reasons, fans are confused as to why he would come out with a surprise, performing a song that’s 17 years old!
This performance caught the eye of many well known celebrities around the globe, specifically Billboard tweeting out saying that Eminem had the “Whole world jumping”. Although many fans were confused, as earlier stated, only a small percentage of fans were utterly disappointed, the majority were quite pleased in fact. However, it was expected for Eminem to perform a song off of his newest album for publicity purposes. Fans were happy to see him perform out of the blue, however, confusion broke out when they heard the track.
Let’s head back two weeks, January 31st, 2020. Eminem had released his most recent album, Music to be Murdered by. The album consisted of twenty tracks including features from Young MA, Ed Sheeran, and most famously, Juice WRLD. The most famous song on the album, “Godzilla”, immediately gained attention from the media all around the globe for two reasons. Firstly, Eminem somehow managed to get a feature from Juice WRLD, the American 21 year old sadly overdosed on December 8th of 2019, he was later pronounced dead. Although this was shocking, Eminem also impressed the whole world with his ability to rap at an incredible speed of 10.6 syllables per second! Thus setting a world record and beating his past time of 9.6 syllables per second in “Lose Yourself”. Although we were all expecting “Godzilla” when he initially hit the stage, Eminem later revealed that he wanted to leave fans with “A performance to remember ”. At the end of the day, Eminem is known as one of the all time greats and is on top when it comes to the music industry!
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