“Lose Yourself” by Eminem is about the means to become so focused when doing something that one’s sense of self and one’s sense of time passing are temporarily nonexistent. Eminem´s tone of this masterpiece of a song sets a tone of is doubtful and disappointing because no one believes in him and he’s on his own, but as the song goes on the tone changes to encouraging.
Nevertheless, ¨Lose Yourself” by Eminem is one of the most inspiring and widely known rap songs that set a president for his flow and style of rap with a tone that starts low and builds itself up. Born in 1972 in Missouri, rap musician Eminem had a rough childhood. Not only was Eminem’s home life troubling his school life was no exception, Eminem stated ‘I would change schools two, three times a year,’ Eminem later recalled. ‘That was probably the roughest part about it all.’ Despite this, Eminem was determined to be a rapper and grew up to the free-flowing mastermind we know today.
Eminem’s capacity to rap well is clearly one of the principle reasons that he remains at such a high spot in hip-jump. He can string words and syllables together that no other rapper would even dream of. He utilizes a blend of complex rhyming plans and pleasantry that he combines with a smooth sounding stream to make his very own one of a kind sound that relatively few different rappers can coordinate. Not only can Eminem deliver such an incredible flow, but the catchiness of the song will also make you remember for the nostalgia in the near future.
In the beginning, the two chords are used to create tension and release it, the perfect 5th interval is the start of the song which creates a feeling of home due to the fact that the perfect 5th interval is the second and third harmonics of the fundamental frequency of the key center. It creates tension and releases it back and forth between the perfect fifth and minor 6th interval to build it up progression chances to have tension in it, the song is building up to the chorus when Eminem states the name of the song “Lose Yourself.”
The tone of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” is doubtful and disappointing because no one believes in him and he’s on his own, but as the song goes on the tone changes to encouraging. One can see the change in tone with an opening of “Yo! His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There’s vomit on his sweater already: Mom’s spaghetti” giving the starting tone of disappointing and doubtful explaining his physical pain and the vomit he produced prior to eating his mothers spaghetti, but then further into the song stating “You better lose yourself in the music. The moment, you own it, you better never let it go. You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo” giving a more upbeat tone to the song and providing words of encouragement.