8 Mile

8 mile is loosely based on the life story of Marshall Mathers known is the rap world as Eminem, and his troubles growing up in the streets of Detroit, Michigan the capital of car manufacturing at the time. The movie starts off with a young white man in an underground rap competition where rappers go to diss and battle each other and earn themselves some respect in the underground Detroit rap game and possibly pursue their lifetime dream of being signed to a label which will really get their career to the next level. His nick name in the movie is B Rabbit and in the opening competition he can't seem to get himself to compete on stage and ends up choking, in turn being booed off the stage. For the rest of the movie it follows this young man's struggle as he has to move back home with his alcoholic mom who has a boyfriend the same age of her very own son. He then has to get himself to his job at a factory with a rundown car that breaks down more often than not. Throughout the way him and his friends get into a bit of trouble as they shoot paintball guns at cop cars and try and run away from them until their car dies, try and do some good and burn down a rundown building in order to keep rapists from taking their pray to them except they have one problem, they forget that B Rabbit is upstairs in the house and he almost gets burnt up with it. The crew then gets into it with a cross town rival known as the free world, guns end up getting pulled, and one of B Rabbit's best friend's Cheddar Bob ends up shooting himself in the leg as he is not the smartest guy in the world. For the climax of the movie B Rabbit returns to the underground rap battle scene to try his luck yet again against his rivals of the Free World. He ends up destroying the competition gaining a huge amount of respect and even ends up getting the girl he truly wants throughout the entire movie. As many know Eminem is known as the most popular white rapper of all time coming out of the Detroit area in a side of town known as 8 mile He know has numerous hit singles and topped the charts with multiple albums touring across the world. (412)