There is no doubt that the city of Detroit has influenced rapper Eminem, in fact the hardships he has experienced there has made him the man he is today. Now that he has become a superstar in the music industry, he has become an influence for the entire city with the lyrics in his songs and his story towards his struggle to superstardom.

Throughout his years as an artist, Eminem has always put parts of his own life into his music, which must be why people respond to it so well. Most of the rap music today focuses on topics such as sex, money, and power. Songs that focus on these topics give that wonder and fantasy to rap that people love, but nothing hits home like something that’s real. What makes Eminem so accessible is that he raps about the struggles in his life. The songs that sell best for him are the ones that include moments from his life. 

Lose Yourself, from his 2002 soundtrack from the movie 8 Mile, is considered his best song of all time by his fans because that song summarizes his whole life to that point. The message of the song is, in short, that it is extremely difficult to make it to superstardom and even more difficult to stay there and the only way to stay true and succeed is to give everything you have when you have the chance.