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Rapper Eminem surprised many with his performance of “Lose yourself” at Academy Awards 2020, 17 years after the song won him an Oscar.<\/p>\n
He’d decided not to attend the ceremony in 2003, leaving his collaborator Luis Resto to accept the award from legendary actress-singer Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n
In an interview with variety.com, Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, opened up about how his Sunday night’s performance came together.<\/p>\n
“I kinda figured maybe since I didn’t get a chance to do it at the time, maybe it would be cool. Back then, I never even thought that I had a chance to win, and we had just performed ‘Lose yourself’ on the Grammys with the Roots a couple of weeks before the Oscars, so we didn’t think it was a good idea. And also, back at that time, the younger me didn’t really feel like a show like that would understand me,” said the rapper. “But then when I found out I won, ‘That’s crazy!’ That to me shows how authentic and real that award is — when you don’t show up and you still win. That makes it very real to me,” he added.<\/p>\n
He doesn’t know if he was disappointed about missing the ceremony back then, he was “blown back by the fact that I won”.<\/p>\n
“I don’t even think I understood back then that you could get an Oscar for a song, and I remember being kinda confused about why I was even up for one, because as a kid with the Oscars, it was like a vacuum,” said Eminem. (IANS)<\/p>\n
At the time, some reports said he didn’t perform because the Oscars wanted him to do a censored version of the song.<\/p>\n
“Oh no, that wasn’t the case at all, because there’s not even that many cuss words in it – there’s only a couple. That’s not true at all,” he clarified.<\/p>\n
He enjoyed being at Oscars this year. “Absolutely. I got to hug Salma Hayek,” he shared. (IANS)<\/p>\n
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