8 Mile (Soundtrack)

To the US film drama 8 Mile two different were Soundtrack - albums released. Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile was released in October 2002 and More Music from 8 Mile in January 2003 . The first soundtrack received a lot more attention, especially due to the single Lose Yourself by the main actor of the film Eminem .

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile
Soundtrack by various artists
Publication (s)	October 28, 2002
admission	2001-2002
Label (s)	Shady Records , Interscope , UMG Soundtracks
Format (s)	CD , vinyl , MC
Genre (s)	Hip-Hop , Contemporary R&B
Title (number)	CD 1: 16 / (CD 2: 6)
running time	CD 1: 68:15 / (CD 2: 21:36)
production	Eminem ( Executive Producer ) Denaun Porter Jeff Bass Luis Resto Sha Money XL Mike Elizondo DJ premier guru u. a.
Studio (s)	54 Sound Studio (Detroit) u. a.
chronology The Eminem Show (2002) Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile Encore (2004)
Single releases August 1, 2002 Wanksta October 22, 2002 Lose Yourself October 22, 2002 Rap name

background

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile consists of 8 Mile songs that were new at the time the film was released . These come from Eminem, rappers who were signed to his music label Shady Records , commercially and underground rappers, as well as female R&B singers.

Through some appearances on the album and especially the single Wanksta (number 13 in the Billboard Charts ) 50 Cent gained first notoriety before he made his breakthrough with Get Rich or Die Tryin ' a year later .

Cover design

Cover of the album
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

The album cover shows a nightly shot of a street in Detroit from the film 8 Mile , on which a man with his back to the viewer is walking with a black sack on his shoulder. In the foreground there is a street sign that reads 8 Mile RD Mobile Court in glowing orange . The title Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile runs in the middle across the picture.

Track list

Wanksta was 50 Cent's first commercially successful single.

Obie Trice's Rap Name uses the same intro as Eminem's Without Me .

#	title	Artist	producer	length
1	Lose Yourself	Eminem	Eminem, Luis Resto , Jeff Bass (co-producer)	5:20
2	Love me	Eminem, Obie Trice , 50 cents	Eminem, Luis Resto (co-producer)	4:30
3	8 mile	Eminem	Eminem, Luis Resto (co-producer)	6:00
4th	Adrenaline rush	Obie Trice	Spyda	3:48
5	Places to Go	50 cents	Eminem	4:15
6th	Rap game	D12 , 50 cents	Denaun Porter , Eminem	5:53
7th	8 Miles and Runnin '	Jay-Z , freeway	Eminem	4:08
8th	Spit Shine	Xzibit	Denaun Porter	3:39
9	Time of My Life	Macy Gray	Dante Ross, John Gamble, Mike Elizondo (co-producer)	4:21
10	U wanna be me	Nas	Chucky Thompson, Nas	3:50
11	Wanksta	50 cents	John "J-Praize" Freeman, Sha Money XL	3:38
12	Wasting my time	Taryn Manning	Kellin Manning, Martin Pradler	3:37
13	RAKIM	Rakim	Denaun Porter	4:23
14th	That's my nigga fo 'real	Young Zee	Dante Ross, John Gamble	4:45
15th	Battle	Aisle Rigid	DJ Premier , Guru (co-producer)	2:56
16	Rabbit Run	Eminem	Eminem, Luis Resto (co-producer)	3:10

Deluxe edition

Parallel to the normal version of the album, a Deluxe Edition (also limited edition ) of Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile was released, which contains six more songs on a separate CD called The Shady / Aftermath Sampler . The song Rap Name was the first single by the then rather unknown rapper Obie Trice , who, like 50 Cent , only attracted attention a year later with his debut album Cheers .

#	title	Artist	producer	length
1	Rap name	Obie Trice, Eminem	Eminem	5:01
2	Stimulates	Eminem	Eminem	5:03
3	'Till I Collapse Freestyle	50 cents	Eminem	1:26
4th	Gangsta	Joe Beast	Mel-Man	3:35
5	The Weekend	Brooklyn	DJ premier	3:05
6th	California	Shaunta	Mahogany Music	3:26

Reviews

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	74%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
cdstarts.de
allmusic
RapReviews

The soundtrack received mostly positive reviews from critics. The side Metacritic calculated from 13 Reviews of English-language media is a section of 74%.

The All Music Guide warned against considering the sampler an "Eminem album", but highlighted the five songs that Eminem is involved in. These would show progress from The Eminem Show , both technically and musically . Overall, he certified that most of the tracks on Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile were of very high quality and rated the album with four out of five points.

The critic of the e-zine laut.de was astonished that “the songs by the rap heavyweights Jay-Z and Nas curiously cannot compete with the Eminem pieces.” From the instrumentals of the pieces, he felt like The Eminem Show remembered and gave the album three out of five.

RapReviews.com criticizes the lack of variety on the album. This primarily concerns the musical direction of the album, especially because of Eminem's mostly moderate productions. The website rates the work with 7.5 out of ten points.

"Overall this is one of the better rap related soundtracks to be released in a long time, although it drags a bit by the over-reliance on Shady Records stars [...] and on Eminem's beats in particular."

Commercial win

Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile has topped the charts in several countries, including Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. With 702,000 copies sold in the first week, it was particularly successful in the United States. It has now sold more than eleven million times worldwide and was awarded 4 × platinum in the USA for more than 4.85 million sales (as of March 2012) . In the album charts of Germany , the 8 Mile entered the 46th calendar week of 2002 at number 47 and was at number 48 in the following weeks; 27 and 24. It was not until the 5th calendar week of 2003 that Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile reached the top of the charts and stayed there for three weeks. In total, the album stayed in the German Top 100 for 32 weeks, including six weeks in the Top 10 . In the charts of the decade (2000–2009), the 8-mile soundtrack occupied position 145 in Germany.

Chart placements

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	1 (32 weeks)	32
Austria (Ö3)	2 (29 weeks)	29
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 (39 weeks)	39
United Kingdom (OCC)	1 ¹(49 weeks)	49
United States (Billboard)	1 (32 weeks)	32

Annual charts

Charts (2002)	placement
Annual charts (2002)
United Kingdom (OCC)	13¹
United States (Billboard)	33

Charts (2003)	placement
Annual charts (2003)
Germany (GfK)	22nd
Austria (Ö3)	27
Switzerland (IFPI)	43
United Kingdom (OCC)	9¹
United States (Billboard)	7th

¹ Placement in the British compilation charts

Awards

country	gold	platinum	2 × platinum	3 × platinum	4 × platinum
Switzerland awarded by IFPI	-	2003	-	-	-
United States awarded by RIAA	December 3, 2002	December 3, 2002	-	December 3, 2002	January 31, 2003
United Kingdom awarded by BPI	November 15, 2002	-	22. July 2013	-	-
Europe awarded by IFPI	-	2003	2007	-	-

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Australia (ARIA)	4 × platinum	280,000
Belgium (BEA)	gold	(15,000)
Denmark (IFPI)	platinum	(20,000)
Europe (IFPI)	2 × platinum	2,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	(21,281)
France (SNEP)	gold	(100,000)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(20,000)
Japan (RIAJ)	3 × platinum	750,000
Canada (MC)	5 × platinum	500,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)	4 × platinum	60,000
Portugal (AFP)	gold	(10,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	gold	(20,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	(40,000)
Hungary (MAHASZ)	gold	(3,000)
United States (RIAA)	4 × platinum	4,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	(600,000)
All in all	6 × gold 27 × platinum	7,590,000

Main article: Eminem / Music Sales Awards

Singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

Wanksta   US 13 11/30/2002 (20 weeks) Lose Yourself   DE 2 12/16/2002 (29 weeks)   AT 1 12/15/2002 (29 weeks)   CH 1 12/15/2002 (55 weeks)   UK 1 12/14/2002 (52 weeks)   US 1 11/09/2002 (23 weeks)

The songs Wanksta , Lose Yourself and Rap Name were released as singles. Wanksta reached number 13 in the US charts and stayed in the top 100 for 20 weeks. Lose Yourself was even more successful and reached the top of the charts in many countries, including Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Great Britain. In Germany, the single rose to number 2 in the 51st calendar week of 2002 and stayed there for seven weeks. Lose Yourself stayed in the top 100 for a total of 29 weeks (including twelve weeks in the top 10) and received a triple gold record for over 750,000 sales in 2018 .

censorship

In addition to the explicit version of the soundtrack, a clean version was also pressed, in which the offensive words (e.g. "fuck", "fagot") were cut out. However, due to current events at the time (Eminem's conflict with Lynne Cheney , the wife of the then US Vice President Dick Cheney ), a line has also been [censored] in the normal version:

• " I pipe down, when the [White House] gets wiped out, when I see that little [Cheney] dyke get sniped out " (Rap Game)

More Music from 8 Mile

More Music from 8 Mile
Soundtrack by various artists
Publication (s)	January 13, 2003
Label (s)	Shady Records , Interscope
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	12
running time	50:18
production	RZA Mobb Deep u. A.

background

On the album More Music from 8 Mile there are songs that can be heard in the film 8 Mile . Since the film is set in 1995, the songs are from the years between 1993 and 1995 and mostly by New York rappers. Most of the pieces are the time the East Coast of the USA dominating hardcore hip hop assigned and the hip-hop music now regarded as a classic. A large part of the album (tracks 7 to 10) consists of pieces by members of the Wu-Tang Clan .

The title Shook Ones Pt occupies a central position as an “unofficial film anthem” . II by Mobb Deep : He can be heard at the beginning of the film before Rabbit's first battle and during his last battle , two key scenes of the film.

Cover design

Cover of the album
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

The album cover matches that of the DVD for the film 8 Mile . It shows Eminem, facing the viewer, while writing a text on his hand. He is wearing a jacket and a black cap.

Track list

#	title	Artist	producer	Initial release	length
1	Shook Ones Pt. II	Mobb Deep	Mobb Deep	The Infamous (1995)	5:24
2	Juicy	The Notorious BIG	Poke , Sean Combs	Ready to Die (1994)	5:02
3	Gotta get mine	MC Breed , 2Pac	Colin Wolfe, MC Breed, Warren G	The New Breed (1993)	4:14
4th	Feel Me Flow	Naughty by Nature	Naughty by Nature	Poverty's Paradise (1995)	3:33
5	Player's Ball	OutKast	Organized Noize	Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)	4:22
6th	Get money	Junior MAFIA	Ez Elpee	Conspiracy (1995)	4:35
7th	I'll Be There for You / You're All I Need to Get By	Method Man , Mary J. Blige	RZA	Tical (1994)	5:07
8th	Shimmy Shimmy Ya	Ol 'dirty bastard	RZA	Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995)	2:29
9	Bring pain	Method Man	RZA	Tical (1994)	3:09
10	CREAM	Wu-Tang Clan	RZA	Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)	4:13
11	Runnin '	The Pharcyde	Jay Dee	Labcabincalifornia (1995)	4:20
12	Survival of the Fittest	Mobb Deep	Mobb Deep	The Infamous (1995)	3:43

reception

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

More Music from 8 Mile   DE 15th 01/26/2003 (8 weeks)   AT 12 01/26/2003 (10 weeks)   CH 18th 01/26/2003 (12 weeks)

More Music from 8 Mile was received very positively, but did not get the same attention (even commercially) as Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile . For the critic of the All Music Guide it is hard to imagine a better way of putting together “the absolute best of hardcore hip-hop” of that time, which is why he awards 4.5 out of five points.

laut.de regards the album as instructive for “Eminem teenagers” to learn something about the history of hip-hop outside the mainstream and rates it four out of five points.

The New Musical Express describes More Music from 8 Mile as "an incomparable entry into the mid-nineties scene with a focus on the all-conquering gangsta rap " and awards nine out of ten points.

"It's a surplus of riches, delivering far more than you've any right to expect of a second soundtrack album but it's also aa cool education in the mid-nineties hip hop scene and an intriguing examination of the roots of Eminem."

More songs from the film

The album More Music from 8 Mile only contains a part of the songs that can be heard in 8 Mile . Other songs are:

• Unbelievable from The Notorious BIG
• Time's Up from OC
• Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Insane in the Brain by Cypress Hill
• This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan
• Gang Stories from South Central Cartel
• Flight Of The Bumblebee by Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow
• I Love You by Bernard Sumner
• Who Shot Ya from The Notorious BIG
• Temptations from 2Pac
• Next Level (Nyte Time Mix) by Showbiz and AG
• Player's Anthem from Junior MAFIA
• Last Dayz by Onyx

Web links

• Official website of the film

Sources and Notes

1. ↑ Billboard.com : 50 cents in the US charts ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Mel Man , Playlists.net, accessed May 12, 2016
3. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com (English)
4. ↑ Rating: laut.de
5. ↑ Rating: cdstarts.de
6. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
7. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com
8. ↑ All Music Guide : Review of Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile
9. ↑ laut.de : Review of Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile
10. ↑ RapReviews.com: Review of Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture 8 Mile , October 29, 2002
11. ↑ laut.de: "Eminem: '8 Mile' tops cinema charts" , November 11, 2002
12. ↑ Eminem album sales on statisticbrain.com, July 11, 2015, English. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
13. ↑ US sales
14. ↑ RIAA : Gold / Platinum 8 Mile (Soundtrack)
15. ↑ Charts of the decade DE # 145
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
17. ↑ ^{a b} annual charts 2002: DE AT CH UK US
18. ↑ ^{a b c d e} annual charts 2003: DE AT CH UK US
19. ↑ swisscharts.com: Awards
20. ↑ riaa.com: RIAA database
21. ↑ bpi.co.uk: Certified Award Search (English)
22. ↑ ifpi.org: Platinum Europe Awards
23. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
24. ↑ international chart tracking Lose Yourself
25. ↑ Eminem "Lose Yourself" in the IFPI database DE AT CH
26. ↑ Eminem's conflict with Lynne Cheney
27. ↑ Censored line in "Rap Game"
28. ↑ ^{a b} laut.de: Review of More Music from 8 Mile
29. ↑ Rabbit is the nickname of Eminem's film character.
30. ↑ This is the Puff Daddy Remix .
31. ↑ All Music Guide: Review of More Music from 8 Mile
32. ↑ NME.com: Review of More Music from 8 Mile , January 16, 2003
33. ↑ 8 Mile soundtrack. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 12, 2015 . 
34. ↑ List on the DVD for 8 Mile