re: Can we discuss the ridiculousness of 8 Mile?

Is this your college thesis?

Holy wall of text

Down vote for even attempting to analyze this movie

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Was his 8 mile walk 1 way or 2 way?

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pectus

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Spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti!!!

"Tank top screaming "Lotto I don't fit you"" is an all-timer line.

I appreciate the work Cocomo has put into to showing that Danny LaRusso is the villain of the Karate Kid films and other related deconstructions of beloved films... but this one was weak sauce.

Back to the drawing board. And Em's imitation of the guys voice by spouting gibberish is the best part of any of his rap battles. Coco is wrong to call that a low point.

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So Papa Doc, after having respectfully allowed Rabbit to go first...is so flabergasted at the blatant lack of respect for the rules of the game that he chooses to make the bold, brave move to walk off the stage because he's better than that bullshite.

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But see saying this, or even having this opinion, shows that you didn’t understand the “awesome-ness” of what had just transpired. First off he didn’t walk off the stage, he choked. He does the exact thing that his free world boys (and even him in the beginning of the movie rap battle) ridicule and diss Eminem for, choking. One of the reasons why they had no respect for Eminem at all was bc they thought b rabbit was fake, acting like he was good at rapping, but yet he always choked every time he tried battling before that last scene. That aspect and detail of the scene was essentially the point of the entire movie and highlighted the complete 360 of B rabbits rap “career”. Not only did he not choke this night, but he also was so good that he won the prior 2 rounds and was in the championship. He goes from choking and being boo’ed off stage, to making the current, undefeated Rap Battle Champ (Papa Doc) choke and get boo’ed off stage.
And the reason he choked was not because he thought Eminem “disrespected” the rules (as if it’s some formal event anyways) it’s because of what Eminem just got done rapping. Eminem took any and every angle away from papa doc and left him with literally NOTHING to rap about. He couldn’t diss Em for anything bc Em just acknowledged all of that and showed it doesn’t mean shite anymore. Ok so maybe papa doc won’t diss Em then, he will just rap and talk about street life and being a thug or whatever else is cool for a rapper… well papa doc couldn’t go that route either bc Eminem also just exposed the shite out of Papa Doc proving how his thug street life demeanor was nothing more than a facade, he wasn’t even from the hood, he went to a private school.
B rabbit, a white guy from the hood, proved to a crowd of all black people that he was more like them than any of the black rapper/s that literally just spent an entire night trying to diss him for being white and an outsider that wasn’t welcome. When in reality, papa doc and the entire free world crew were the real outsiders that didn’t belong. Hints why B rabbit starts his final rap off with
“Now everybody from the 313 (the hood they were in) throw your motherfrickin hands up and follow me…”
and you see the entire crowd with their hands up and Eminem and Future and cheddar Bob; pretty much everyone there except Papa Doc and the free world crew…. So he continues saying
“now while he (Papa Doc) stands tough, notice that this man (pointing at Papa Doc) DID NOT have his hands up”….
Bc papa doc didn’t/couldn’t rep 31third like everyone there. He was a part of Free World. It’s genius really.
This white guy, who the audience has only ever seen choke and embarrass himself, just explained with proof, and answered for every single diss and stereo type that’s ever been used against him. Still though these rappers just couldn’t help themselves from repeating the same shite ….
“Pay attention meat head, you’re saying the same shite that he said”….
But the crowd kept giving them credit bc even though it’s repetitive it never really gets old when ridiculing the outsider who doesn’t belong.
But it all changed in one verse when the crowd learned the truth. Papa doc was a “halfway crook” bc his reputation and career was based off of lies.
That’s why Papa Doc walked off stage, not bc he felt the rules weren’t followed. But bc without the played out easy diss lyrics available, he no longer had the rap skills or talent capable of forming his own original disses….

I like the part where Rabbit is all like spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti!