Eminem 8 mile last battle lyrics
Artists have a lot of ambition right now and everyone is dreaming big, so it’s an exciting time to be there. It’s early, and there’s a lot of people who want to be like Cole, Drake, Kendrick and them but, in my opinion, nobody has been able to do it like them-yet. There are a ton of people listening to it who had no idea what it was before, or its history. Last year in China a contest show called Rap Of China became widely popular and pushed hip-hop into the mainstream. Underground hip-hop and battle rap have been around for a while, but only in a very underground way. The hip-hop scene in China is very, very young and undeveloped right now. In addition, it’s also a crazy time for people who are doing music in China and I wanted to give my voice to the scene as well. I also wanted to really live in China as an adult for the first time, since after leaving at the age of eleven, I’ve only gone back for a month at a time whether it's for holidays or shows. I moved back to Chengdu last July (2017) to live with my grandpa who raised me in China. It gave me a lot of experiences and life to talk about in my songs and made me think of others in my position, not just Chinese immigrants, but immigrants in general. This definitely kept me aware of where I’m from and who I am, or what I am. I moved to the States in 2003, and I’ve been back to China at least once every year. I basically went backward trying to find connections between hip-hop and everything that came before it.ĭid you travel back and forth between the US and China growing up? Did that impact your creativity?ĭefinitely. Beyond Em, my other influences were basically whoever he listened to, from Pac to Lauryn, and everything in between. Listening to Eminem is how I learned English. In 8 Mile, I saw how he was an outsider who gained acceptance through music, and I wanted the same for myself. At first, it was just Eminem, more so his story than anything else. I really had phases when it came to my musical influences. Who were your biggest musical influences growing up?