Ever since the rap genre of music began in the early 1980s, it’s musicians and followers have been prominently black. In 1995, when 8 Mile took place, the world had only known of two white rappers, Vanilla Ice and Everlast. Both these rappers were never taken seriously and both fizzled out of the scene within a couple of years. To see a serious and talented white rapper was blasphemous before Eminem came around in 1999, there was no such thing. Jimmy Smith, Jr. dealt with a lot of issues with people not taking him seriously and comparing him to Vanilla Ice and Everlast. In the beginning of the movie

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