Lose Yourself

The music video for the song “Lose Yourself” by Eminem was directed by himself, Paul Rosenberg, and Phillip G. Atwell. The video was made in 2002 by Shady Records. Eminem is an American Rapper who was born in Detroit who become a household name after his first record, The Slim Shady LP in 1999. He then went on the release four other albums since then including the newest this year, Relapse. He has sold more than 75 million cds worldwide. Marshall Mathers has rose from a screw up nothing from Detroit to a worldwide superstar name Eminem. He married his high school sweetheart, Kim and had a daughter named Hallie. His publicity and popularity has made him travel so much that he has family problems and gets divorced with Kim. He talks about these problems with Kim and Hallie in the song, with clips of his family.

In the video it shows clip from his movie, 8 Mile, which was loosely based around his life growing up in the poor area of Detroit. I was drawn to this music video because Eminem is one of my favorite artists and I have listened to all of his cds, and this happens to be one of my favorite songs by him. The music video is very meaningful because he raps about his life and struggles to become who he is today, a true rags to riches story. The subject is his life growing up on 8 mile road and coming from underground rapper to worldwide phenomena.

This is art because it takes a lot of time and creativity to write a song with meaningful lyrics and even more time and creativity to create a video that can portray the meaning of that song. In my opinion art is something that one creates a work that creates an emotional reaction from the viewers, whether it be positive or negative.

I also chose this because it is a rap music video, and I'm sure there's a good chance that nobody else would choose from this genre so I hope my choice was original.