Apr 2, 2015 http://genius.com/5140246 When we were making 8 Mile, I was revisiting this old CD from two years before, going through old loops. I found the “Lose Yourself” demo on this session where me and Jeff Bass were just making beats. Jeff was just sitting on those guitar chords, and then it went into something different. I was just like “Yo, that section, right there, I gotta make a beat out of that.” I recorded the demo version of it the same day I made the beat. I didn’t like the rhyme, and put it off to the side. But it’s one of those beats I never gave up on. That beat was definitely a highlight of my producing. I ended up doing the new version on the set of the movie, just writing between takes. 8 Mile wasn’t coming out for another year and a half, and Curtis really wanted music for the movie. He wanted it to be created from the environment, so he was pushing me to make stuff. I think “Lose Yourself” was the only thing I worked on specifically for the movie. We filmed half of it in the dead of winter. We had a music trailer on set, designed like a studio. One trailer was music, and we had another with gym equipment in it. We were on lunch break, and I needed to finish the track. I don’t think it was one take all the way down, but it was one take each verse. “Got the first verse, okay, punch me in at the second. OK, the whole third verse.” For some reason, I just captured something there that I didn’t want to change. I remember trying to change it and go back and re-do the vocals, and I was like “Yo, let me listen to the old ones? Just keep the old ones, f--- it.” [I/]
Apr 2, 2015 If all of these Rapgenius annotations are really Eminem, that's pretty cool! I know it's got the little verified checkmark, but so does his Twitter etc I still think he doesn't even know how to work a computer, even to just download the new cd from Luda
Apr 2, 2015 actually i think its predictable to know Lose Yourself demo was recorded in MMLP era/ but its interesting to know from Em himself.
Apr 2, 2015 it was about months i left Lose Youself Demo. I'm listening to it again and you can hear Em mumbling something softly in the background of the chorus. It reminds me of MMLP.
Apr 2, 2015 It does have something of TES because the flow Em used in it. and you might be right about Stimulate. But the fact it's unfinished. i'm digging it. d---
Apr 2, 2015 What about Uncle Ronnie Freestyle. I checked the scratch of Uncle Ronnie freestyle in TWIA book. the lyrics sound pretty koooll
Apr 2, 2015 As I think of it, his voice in the demo is closer to MMLP but the final song is clearly in the TES era
