Math Hoffa and co speak on Eminem’s “8 Mile” and “Bodied”.
In a recent episode of their show “My Expert Opinion“, Math Hoffa and Ms Fit talk about the rap battle movies, including Eminem‘s classic “8 Mile” and the 2017 movie “Bodied”. The crew had some huge praise for Eminem’s “8 Mile” while calling “Bodied” a failure. They said that 8 Mile felt more real, gritty, and somehow inspired by Eminem’s real-life story.
While Bodied, the 2017 battle rap comedy-drama film directed by Joseph Kahn, somehow didn’t connect to the streets. Eminem took part in the movie as a producer. The movie flopped at the box office as it only made $100k, after being made from a budget of $15 million.
Eminem, a white rapper whose life and work are exemplary rebukes to the film’s substance and theme—growing up in an integrated neighbourhood and rapping primordially, from his early adolescent years, at a period when the genre was still in its infancy—is a co-producer on “Bodied.”
Math Hoffa gives his opinion on “Bodied” and said that it was an exaggerated version of “8 Mile”. The other members on the show deny the movie being “8 Mile” part 2, then Hoffa compares some of the topics of the 2 rap films. Math Hoffa mentions that both movies had rap battles, a story on a while boy that didn’t belong there, a love interest, and a Bad Guy who appears at the start and in the final battle. He said the creators tried to make a movie on Eminem, without Eminem. The only issue he had was that the star of the movie wasn’t one from the streets.
At the 75th Academy Awards in 2003, Eminem received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for his single “Lose Yourself” from the soundtrack of 8 Mile, becoming the first hip hop artist to do so. The film was nominated for 32 awards and won 11. Eminem sang the song in a surprise cameo at the 2020 Academy Awards, 17 years later.
Watch the whole thing below.
