![]() ![]() You begin to wonder what that means when you realize that all of them come from the same place and all want the same thing: To wake up one morning in lives they do not hate. And some of the black rappers don't want the white rapper joining those battles because he is, after all, a white rapper. In the movie, the rappers meet for weekly "battles," free-style competitions where success hinges upon your ability to conjure rhyming, rhythmic insults off the top of your head. 8 Mile forces us to either say what we mean or discard our outmoded paradigms altogether. ![]() We say black when we mean crime, black when we mean squalor, black when we mean poor.īut Rabbit is poor as dirt and white as snow. Watching him is a visceral reminder of how often we use race as proxy for ain't got and can't get. He pilots a rusted old sedan through grimy streets on the edge of nowhere. Rabbit lives with his alcoholic mother and her good-for-nothing boyfriend in one of those trailer parks where hope goes to die. ![]()
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