Remember when yappy-voiced rapper Eminem yelled at us to “lose yourself” in isn’t-life-tough-in-trailer-trash-rappy-land film 8 Mile?
Sorry if you were inspired at the time to put on some baggy trousers, spit some phat lyrics and mug a pensioner, because it turns out Eminem wasn’t just talking about losing yourself in the magic of urban music.
Four years after the film in question, Eminem is back and has revealed that he was in the grip of drug and alcohol addiction at the time. Lose yourself indeed, Nemmy! Perhaps you lost yourself after a night out on vodka and disco biscuits, forced to sell one of your blingin’ necklaces to a cab driver in exchange for a wide-eyed lift home? Or maybe you lost yourself in a bucket ‘o crack at a squat party. Either way, Eminem, this is all most disappointing.
