故事发生在1995年的底特律。阿姆参加当地一家俱乐部的说唱比赛，同时他必须面对生活中的各种难题：如跟女友分手，跟母亲的矛盾，竞争的激烈等等。当然，他可以名正言顺的用音乐表达愤怒和恐惧，跨越种族与个人的身份障碍，并最终逃离底特律的狭隘生活。
    Lose Yourself - Eminem
    沉浸在音乐中 - Eminem
    Look if you had one shot one opportunity
    如果拥有一次机会
    To seize everything you ever wanted
    去得到你曾想拥有的一切
    One moment
    在此刻
    Would you capture it or just let it slip
    你会抓住机遇 还是让它悄然溜走
    His palms are sweaty
    他的手掌已经出汗
    Knees weak arms are heavy
    膝盖发软 双臂沉重
    There's vomit on his
    污物在他的外套那么刺眼
    Sweater already mom's forgetting
    妈妈忘记了提醒他
    He's nervous but on
    他是如此紧张
    The surface he looks calm and ready
    但表面是如此平静镇定
    To drop bombs but he keeps on forgettin
    随时等待爆发 可是他总是遗忘
    What he wrote down
    他精心准备的话语
    The whole crowd goes so loud
    人群躁动
    He opens his mouth
    他张嘴
    But the words won't come out
    但却吐不出一字
    He's chokin how everybody's jokin now
    他感到窒息 被所有人嘲笑
    The clock's run out time's up over BLOAH
    时钟在转动 时间已到
    Snap back to reality Oh there goes gravity
    回归现实 仿佛失去重力
    Oh there goes Rabbit he choked
    他选择无言应对
    He's so mad but he won't give up that easy
    他是如此疯狂 不想就此轻易放弃
    No he won't have it
    不 他没有
    He knows his whole back's to these ropes
    他深知背后的阴谋
    It don't matter he's dope
    但没关系 他如此坚强
    He knows that but he's broke
    他知晓一切 但却穷困潦倒
    He's so stacked that he knows
    他是如此悲伤 但他知道
    When he goes back to
    当他回到
    His mobile home that's when it's
    自己的租赁房 仿佛重回
    Back to the lab again yo
    实验之中
    This whole rap shit
    就像一场狂想曲
    He better go capture
    他最好就此抓住
    This moment and hope it don't pass him
    此刻不要让希望再次与他失之交臂
    You better lose yourself in the music the moment
    此刻请沉醉在音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    You better lose yourself in the music the moment
    此刻请沉醉在音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    The soul's escaping
    灵魂逃离
    Through this hole that it's gaping
    穿越这里的缺口
    This world is mine for the taking
    这个世界由我做主
    Make me king as we
    我是国王
    Move toward a new world order
    制定新的秩序
    A normal life is borin
    平凡的人生如此无趣
    But superstardom's close to post mortem
    但明星之路却容易让人迷失
    It only grows harder homie grows hotter
    前方路途越来越难
    He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
    他引爆全场 他已成为焦点
    Coast to coast shows
    穿梭在各个海岸 巡回演出
    He's known as the globetrotter
    他仿佛是时间的旅客
    Lonely roads got him
    独自在旅途
    He knows he's grown farther from home
    他知道自己离家已久
    He's no father
    他没有父亲
    He goes home and
    他回家
    Barely knows his own daughter
    几乎认不出自己的女儿了
    But hold ya nose cuz here goes the cold water
    心却感到如此寒冷
    The hoes don't want him no more
    他的爱人已不再爱他
    He's cold prada
    因为他是如此冷血
    They moved on to the next shmo who flows
    他们继续流浪 去下一个地点
    Who nose dove and sold nada
    他们都孑然一身
    And so the so proper His toll it unfolds
    故事就此开始
    And I suppose it's old partner
    我想剧情依然老套
    But the beat goes on
    但节拍却一直响着
    Da da dum da dum da da
    哒哒咚嗒咚哒哒哒哒
    You better lose yourself in the music the moment
    此刻请沉醉在音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    You better lose yourself in
    此刻请沉醉在
    The music the moment
    音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    No more games
    不再游戏人间
    I'm change for due called rage
    我因内心的愤怒而改变
    Tear this mothafuckin roof off like 2 dogs caged
    掀翻这该死的屋顶 它像狗笼一样
    I was playin in the beginnin the mood all changed
    从开始就改变心态
    I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
    我被嘲笑 被抛弃 甚至跌落舞台
    But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher
    但我会努力跟上下一个节拍
    Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper
    就像总是希望有人会为你买单
    All the pain inside amplified by the
    痛苦仿佛蔓延
    Fact that I can't get by with my nine to
    而事实上 我是如此平凡
    Five and I can't provide the right type
    朝九晚五的生活只能如此
    Of life for my family cuz man
    为了家人奔波
    These goddam food stamps
    这该死的粮票
    Don't buy diapers
    无法支付尿布
    And it's no movie there's no
    这不是电影
    Mekhi Phifer this is my life
    没有麦凯费弗 这是我的生活
    And these times are so hard
    生活如此艰难
    And it's getting even harder
    或许会变得更加艰辛
    Tryin to feed and water
    尝试用水浇灌
    My seed plus teeter-totter
    让我的种子生根发芽
    Caught up between being a father and a pre madonna
    在父亲和工作自负的角色中互换
    Baby momma drama screamin' on her
    孩子和母亲都在叫喊
    Too much for me to wanna stay in one spot
    想要的太多
    Another damn or not has gotten me to the point
    生活每天都是千篇一律
    I'm like a snail I've got
    有时会像个蜗牛
    To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot
    制定计划 而结局只有坐牢或者被射杀
    Success is my only mothafuckin option failure's not
    而成功是我唯一的出路
    Mom I love you but this trailer's got
    母亲我爱你 但我不想长此以往
    To go I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
    不能就这样浪费我的生命
    So here I go is my shot
    所以现在我要抓住机会
    Feet fail me not
    不再失败
    Cuz maybe the only opportunity that I got
    因为这是我所拥有的唯一机会
    You better lose yourself in the music the moment
    此刻请沉醉在音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    You better lose yourself in the music the moment
    此刻请沉醉在音乐之中
    You own it you better never let it go
    将之拥有 不要让它溜走
    You only get one shot
    你只有一次机会
    Do not miss your chance to blow
    不要失去机会
    This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
    这种机会人生只有一次
    You can do anything you set your mind to man
    坚持信念 你终会成功