A Cinderella man=anyone who was given a second chance ( like Cinderella was when her fairy godmother showed up ) and succeeding with it ( like Cinderella did when she married the Prince). "During the Great Depression, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. Suddenly thrust into the national spotlight, he would defy the odds against him and stun the world with one of the greatest comebacks in history. Driven by love for his family, he willed an impossible dream to come true." "Guess I'm lucky, Some of us don't get a second chance... But I aint blowing this one... I feel like I can do anything now" -"Cinderella Man," Eminem Em had almost died from an overdose.
The song is based off of the story of James J. Braddock. James was nicknamed the "Cinderella Man." He is talking about coming off the drug addiction and getting a second chance like Braddock did
@@buddysystem4207 if you read your own comment correctly you say it was based off of the movie cinderella man when in fact the song was in no way related to the movie. Your comment was wrong. Accept that & move on with your life. Toronto born and Brooklyn raised singer-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album. Shepherd and his team sent the track with the hook to Eminem's camp and the Detroit rapper chose the song through Shady A&R rep Riggs Morales. Script only got to hear the finished version when Recoveryleaked. "I was in the bathroom," he recalled to MTV News "My wife called me, and I thought it was a bug [in the house]. She was like, 'You gotta come now.' It was amazing. I was in the house with my family. My kids were going to sleep. I woke them up. It was such a tight-knit project. I didn't have a copy of it. I heard it on the Internet like everybody else, and I was the most excited person in the world, besides my wife." Despite sharing the title with 2005 movie The Cinderella Man, the song was not inspired by the Russell Crowe flick. At the time Shepherd was getting over the loss of his older brother who got stabbed in front of his mother. He explained; "I liked the film. But at the time, I was going through a hard time. My brother had just passed away. It's a stadium feel, an anthem," Shepherd added about the song. "Like marching, marching towards something. The sound is big, the message is big on the record. It's about just coming from nothing, not doubting yourself. It sounds like you're marching towards a goal. The guitars are rifting, and it has little bells keeping it melodic. It's a strong record that's motivating. And Em did something motivating with it. I just wanted to have people feel like they're moving with the record, have a Rocky feel. It sounded more authentic to have people feel like they were stomping in the record." Shepherd explained the chorus is meant to inspire. "The hook says, 'If I had a time machine, I'd be a Cinderella man/ Music is my time machine/ Call me Cinderella man,' " he said. "Basically, it's like, music can allow you to do all types of things. You can change the world with music. You can go back and enlighten and move people forward just with sounds and connection. Music is a time machine."
There are three personalities to Eminem i swear. You have Marshall, who generally has the slow, very emotional songs. See When I'm Gone, Mockingbird, Sing for the Moment, Like Toy Soldiers. Then you have Eminem, who has the upbeat and sometimes goofy songs but they still have a point to them. He is also the warning tap to anyone trying to beef with him. Then you have Slim Shady, who will cut a bitch. Yes songs have elements of all three, but generally you can actually see a difference between the vibes you get from these parts to him.
I almost forgot about that one. One of my favorites. The delivery is one of his best. You can feel every ounce of emotion. I'm going back to listen to it as soon as this video is done.
I commented on your first Eminem Video that you were needing to react to this one fella & left you the link. Didnt think you had seen it but I'm glad you came across it fella! Love all of your videos. You have officially become my #1❣
Bully is the perfect example of em's most intricate writing skills, that isnt even a rap scheme that shit is literally writen like a poem , every first line rhymes with ever third line, every second line rhymes with every fourth line, then he comes back with the same Rhyme he had on the second line and finishes that shit on the 5th rhyme, and has double, tripple or even quadruple rhyme words in between , this is one of his most intricately written pieces , without a doubt, absolutely mindblowing
cinderella man is based off the boxer whos nickname was cinderella man, this song came after Eminems OD and his first album after the OD, so basically he's saying ya i fell off but I'm back now like how the boxer who fell off the boxing scene during the great depression came back and became world champion again.
Lol 2011 i was bumping this after coming home from middle school writing my own rhymes, playing gamecube, and getting into all kinds of trouble terrorizing The southside of pittsburgh😂😂😂 god those were the best times of my life
just realized in Cinderella man em says "who can catch lightning in a bottle" yelawolf has a song were he says "we were lightning in a bottle" kinda a odd link but hey
THANK YOU!! I was wondering when someone was going to bring that fact out. I was about to when I saw your post!! You beat me to the punch (so to speak) LMAO!!
@@kimberlypoole5325 we weren't saying Eminem made this song for or about the movie. We were saying that there was a movie made about the boxer who was the "Cinderella Man". About the man!! That's all homie!!
Also, Benzino found/released an old ass track of Ems where he utilized the 'N' word. He references this in 'Bully'as well, (the line being: So now you try to pull the race card and it backfires in your face hard 'Cause you know we don't play that black and white shit). It all started wtih Benzino calling him "2003 Vanilla Ice" (in 2003 of course)...just popped off from there....Heres an excerpt from an article on the first part..... Having already offended millions of people across the world, especially women and homosexuals, the superstar rapper Eminem is now back in the hotseat over a 10-year-old track in which he refers to black women as "dumb chicks" and says he will in future date only white girls. A widely read hip-hop magazine called The Source is using the track as part of a campaign to denounce Eminem, a white performer in a predominantly black world, as a closet racist. The rapper Benzino, a co-founder of the magazine, has previously denounced Eminem as "a rap David Duke, a rap Hitler, a culture-stealer" and now seems intent on bringing him down. The Source has unearthed two old tracks, only one of which Eminem has acknowledged as his, in which he makes derogatory comments with a racial component. Link to article: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eminem-apologises-for-his-old-racist-rap-79348.html
man Bully is such an old song and amazing track. Shit man I can link you over 200 em songs you have NEVER heard before. I'm a huge fan - mostly of the unreleased shit since I think it's some of the best lyricism when he's coming at someones throat.
Yo fiyaaaa reactions love dem bra!! Can you please do THE GAME FT EMINEM- WE AINT! AND PROOF FT EMINEM-WE AINT SCARED hardest most underrated ever bro fire start to finish in every aspect 🔥🔥👐🎤
Great video bro! If it wasn't for youtubers like you I wouldn't be able to learn about great new artists. The underground rappers are dope as fuck. Thanks for the help
Toronto born and Brooklyn raisedsinger-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album. is what us says online brother on Cinderella Man
Could be wrong, just going off memory but Rabbit run was off 8 mile, Cinderella man was off recovery and Bully was just a diss track that wasn’t released on any project
I know two of these, Cinderella man I know by name, run rabbit I know but didnt know the name and bully i hadn't heard before. But I'm loving the song bully now
Cinderella Man is Funk Flex’s favorite song from Em. He says it GOES in the club when he plays it and people always goes crazy. Cinderella Man is a true story movie about a talented boxer from the Great Depression era. He was known as the only fighter that could not be knocked out no matter how hard he got hit. He overcomes a lot of difficult situations to become a champion fighter.
Check out the movie Cinderella Man, then give the song another listen. The context is important (not like Eminem ever wrote a song where some context isn't helpful). It's about a boxers fight through the great depression and fights the guy who literally killed his last opponent. I mean, he snapped this guy's fuckin neck with a punch
Eminem is one of those people where you swear you heard everything they ever did but every now and then you find a random single from 7 years ago or something you've never heard
That 8mile soundtrack was slept on.. Lot of 🔥🔥 tracks on there.. This is where “Lose Yourself” “Rabbit Run” and Includes 🔥 fromJay z, Nas, Gangstarr, Obie, and Rakim Also, Cinderella Man is so underrated.. Oh and “Bully” was a diss at Bennzino on the 1st verse and Murder INC later
From song facts: Toronto born and Brooklyn raised singer-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album. Shepherd and his team sent the track with the hook to Eminem's camp and the Detroit rapper chose the song through Shady A&R rep Riggs Morales. Script only got to hear the finished version when Recoveryleaked. "I was in the bathroom," he recalled to MTV News "My wife called me, and I thought it was a bug [in the house]. She was like, 'You gotta come now.' It was amazing. I was in the house with my family. My kids were going to sleep. I woke them up. It was such a tight-knit project. I didn't have a copy of it. I heard it on the Internet like everybody else, and I was the most excited person in the world, besides my wife." Despite sharing the title with 2005 movie The Cinderella Man, the song was not inspired by the Russell Crowe flick. At the time Shepherd was getting over the loss of his older brother who got stabbed in front of his mother. He explained; "I liked the film. But at the time, I was going through a hard time. My brother had just passed away. It's a stadium feel, an anthem," Shepherd added about the song. "Like marching, marching towards something. The sound is big, the message is big on the record. It's about just coming from nothing, not doubting yourself. It sounds like you're marching towards a goal. The guitars are rifting, and it has little bells keeping it melodic. It's a strong record that's motivating. And Em did something motivating with it. I just wanted to have people feel like they're moving with the record, have a Rocky feel. It sounded more authentic to have people feel like they were stomping in the record." Shepherd explained the chorus is meant to inspire. "The hook says, 'If I had a time machine, I'd be a Cinderella man/ Music is my time machine/ Call me Cinderella man,' " he said. "Basically, it's like, music can allow you to do all types of things. You can change the world with music. You can go back and enlighten and move people forward just with sounds and connection. Music is a time machine."
A Cinderella man=anyone who was given a second chance ( like Cinderella was when her fairy godmother showed up ) and succeeding with it ( like Cinderella did when she married the Prince).
"During the Great Depression, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom.
Suddenly thrust into the national spotlight, he would defy the odds against him and stun the world with one of the greatest comebacks in history. Driven by love for his family, he willed an impossible dream to come true."
"Guess I'm lucky, Some of us don't get a second chance... But I aint blowing this one... I feel like I can do anything now"
-"Cinderella Man," Eminem
Em had almost died from an overdose.
Very nice!
a month late to say this shit lol gj breaking it down
Can also mean (send a real man) Cinderella man
Nice breakdown. Props to you.
copy and paste lol
And 50 buying the 200 seats 😆🤦🏼♀️. 50's pettiness is one of the best things Ever!
50 fr the petty god lol
That shit was just funny
The song is based off of the story of James J. Braddock. James was nicknamed the "Cinderella Man." He is talking about coming off the drug addiction and getting a second chance like Braddock did
This song is not related to the movie at all... Movie came out in 2005. This song in 2010.
@@kimberlypoole5325 I said based off the story of the guy the stupid movie that got so many facts wrong
@@buddysystem4207 if you read your own comment correctly you say it was based off of the movie cinderella man when in fact the song was in no way related to the movie. Your comment was wrong. Accept that & move on with your life.
Toronto born and Brooklyn raised singer-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album.
Shepherd and his team sent the track with the hook to Eminem's camp and the Detroit rapper chose the song through Shady A&R rep Riggs Morales. Script only got to hear the finished version when Recoveryleaked. "I was in the bathroom," he recalled to MTV News "My wife called me, and I thought it was a bug [in the house]. She was like, 'You gotta come now.' It was amazing. I was in the house with my family. My kids were going to sleep. I woke them up. It was such a tight-knit project. I didn't have a copy of it. I heard it on the Internet like everybody else, and I was the most excited person in the world, besides my wife."
Despite sharing the title with 2005 movie The Cinderella Man, the song was not inspired by the Russell Crowe flick. At the time Shepherd was getting over the loss of his older brother who got stabbed in front of his mother. He explained; "I liked the film. But at the time, I was going through a hard time. My brother had just passed away.
It's a stadium feel, an anthem," Shepherd added about the song. "Like marching, marching towards something. The sound is big, the message is big on the record. It's about just coming from nothing, not doubting yourself. It sounds like you're marching towards a goal. The guitars are rifting, and it has little bells keeping it melodic. It's a strong record that's motivating. And Em did something motivating with it. I just wanted to have people feel like they're moving with the record, have a Rocky feel. It sounded more authentic to have people feel like they were stomping in the record."
Shepherd explained the chorus is meant to inspire. "The hook says, 'If I had a time machine, I'd be a Cinderella man/ Music is my time machine/ Call me Cinderella man,' " he said. "Basically, it's like, music can allow you to do all types of things. You can change the world with music. You can go back and enlighten and move people forward just with sounds and connection. Music is a time machine."
@@kimberlypoole5325 please tell me where I said anything about the movie in my first post
@@buddysystem4207 you are so right. You didn't mention movie, just who the movie was about. I apologize sir.
There are three personalities to Eminem i swear. You have Marshall, who generally has the slow, very emotional songs. See When I'm Gone, Mockingbird, Sing for the Moment, Like Toy Soldiers. Then you have Eminem, who has the upbeat and sometimes goofy songs but they still have a point to them. He is also the warning tap to anyone trying to beef with him. Then you have Slim Shady, who will cut a bitch. Yes songs have elements of all three, but generally you can actually see a difference between the vibes you get from these parts to him.
Isabella that was put very well ive had people ask me the difference in the 3 and i couldnt explain like that lol
Yeah that about sums that up.
If i get murdered for this rap
I got a million in cash that I will get you back in Hailie name. 🔥🔥🔥
That gives me chills almost every time I hear it. The stakes were different then..
Bully is a diss track to benzino
And Ja
Oh yea I forgot . at least I got one of them
Tyler Abbott and Ja Rule. First verse is Benzino 2nd and 3rd are aimed at Ja and Muder Inc
benzino got caught in a racist rant on a cop recently rofl
@@tylerabbott5119 don't worry, most people forgot about Ja anyways
React to Eminem - Despicable (Freestyle) a true show of a rapper wordplay and rhyme-scheming ability .
Yes! Amazing track!
That's one of the most sick Freestyles... So short but he showed everything in there!! 🐐
@@ancyp.v.7455 Ikr , The wordplay and the multi entendres were just sick as ridiculous .
@@Supes97 exactly! Was just listening to it again... 🔥🔥
Man, guy is complete monster!!
@John Thomas exactly! That transition was just 🤯🤯
I blasted all these while out driving when these came out. 3 great songs
Stimulate by Eminem is a must reaction if you haven’t done it yet
I almost forgot about that one. One of my favorites. The delivery is one of his best. You can feel every ounce of emotion. I'm going back to listen to it as soon as this video is done.
He ain't all over the place in rabbit run, he's summarizing the movie 8 mile from beginning to end in a very clever way
I got a million in cash that says I will get u back in hallies name 💀🔥😂
Cinderella man is a term that for a underdog who makes the most of a 2nd chance
“What were you doing in 2011?” 😂 dude I can’t remember what I had for breakfast
I commented on your first Eminem Video that you were needing to react to this one fella & left you the link. Didnt think you had seen it but I'm glad you came across it fella! Love all of your videos. You have officially become my #1❣
That’s why he is the Greatest Rapper Alive Today!!! He’s a “GOAT”
Obviously no one comes close lol
No alive or dead still legend
There are better
in 2011 i was playing these song and the whole recovery album in my mom and dads truck lol
New Eminem is more lyrical than old em I love classic but this new one is A GOD
Bully is the perfect example of em's most intricate writing skills, that isnt even a rap scheme that shit is literally writen like a poem , every first line rhymes with ever third line, every second line rhymes with every fourth line, then he comes back with the same Rhyme he had on the second line and finishes that shit on the 5th rhyme, and has double, tripple or even quadruple rhyme words in between , this is one of his most intricately written pieces , without a doubt, absolutely mindblowing
Run Rabbit Run is from the 8 Mile soundtrack
only em can rap for a writers block while he puts up lyrics that gives u goosebumps.
He is talking about the story of Cinderella fairy tale how he has gone from rags to riches and he is not going to let anyone take it from him🤟
cinderella man is based off the boxer whos nickname was cinderella man, this song came after Eminems OD and his first album after the OD, so basically he's saying ya i fell off but I'm back now like how the boxer who fell off the boxing scene during the great depression came back and became world champion again.
Cinderalla Man has always been flames 🔥. U sleeping
Cinderella man is his ultimate game over song to the rest of the industry
I used to write my rhymes while replaying run rabbit run
Man, that song is nuts for inspiration IMO.
Well overall in sports the Cinderella team is an underdog and that's pretty much what he is
Dude, you are absolutely hilarious. This was the most enjoyable video I've seen in a long time
Am I the only one that thinks of Rabbit Run as being written to sound like a Jimmy Smith song?
"He spittin shapes at yall" lmao
Lol 2011 i was bumping this after coming home from middle school writing my own rhymes, playing gamecube, and getting into all kinds of trouble terrorizing The southside of pittsburgh😂😂😂 god those were the best times of my life
THE🐐
Cinderella Man that is!
just realized in Cinderella man em says "who can catch lightning in a bottle" yelawolf has a song were he says "we were lightning in a bottle" kinda a odd link but hey
It's a double, Cinderella Man.....Send a Real a man
"spittin shapes at ya'll" lol
DOPE FN REACTION BRUH! FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Keep doin ur thing bro!!
Cinderella Man was made for the Russell Crow movie titled Cinderella Man about a boxer
Rabbit run straight flames and fun fact this song is actually from the perspective of b.rabbit from the movie 8mile
Shaheem Reid produced the song and sings the chorus on Cinderella Man
Cinderella-rags to riches. Abused n picked. Went thru a river of shit but came out clean on the other side
Love the three piece no biscuit bro keep up the great work man
Dude that shapes bar is fucking wild! Haha.
I think I've watched this video like 10 times since it was posted. Love it!
Not to mention James J Braddock was a boxer. There is a movie out about it.
THANK YOU!! I was wondering when someone was going to bring that fact out. I was about to when I saw your post!! You beat me to the punch (so to speak) LMAO!!
That's wrong. Eminem song has nothing to do with the movie
@@kimberlypoole5325 we weren't saying Eminem made this song for or about the movie. We were saying that there was a movie made about the boxer who was the "Cinderella Man". About the man!! That's all homie!!
Also, Benzino found/released an old ass track of Ems where he utilized the 'N' word. He references this in 'Bully'as well, (the line being: So now you try to pull the race card and it backfires in your face hard
'Cause you know we don't play that black and white shit).
It all started wtih Benzino calling him "2003 Vanilla Ice" (in 2003 of course)...just popped off from there....Heres an excerpt from an article on the first part.....
Having already offended millions of people across the world, especially women and homosexuals, the superstar rapper Eminem is now back in the hotseat over a 10-year-old track in which he refers to black women as "dumb chicks" and says he will in future date only white girls.
A widely read hip-hop magazine called The Source is using the track as part of a campaign to denounce Eminem, a white performer in a predominantly black world, as a closet racist. The rapper Benzino, a co-founder of the magazine, has previously denounced Eminem as "a rap David Duke, a rap Hitler, a culture-stealer" and now seems intent on bringing him down.
The Source has unearthed two old tracks, only one of which Eminem has acknowledged as his, in which he makes derogatory comments with a racial component.
Link to article: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eminem-apologises-for-his-old-racist-rap-79348.html
Cinderella man is in my top 10 Em songs.
Token sway in the morning freestyle? He raps over 50 cent beats.. I know you gonna love iT
Eminem makes music just to get back at his mother so she has to always hear his voice, wherever, whenever
I love how u do these videos man! 3 eminem songs in 1 video!!! U got my vote! And sub
Eminem needs to bring back beats like this
love your channel n reactions, keep being you.
2 of my favorite songs of Eminem,rabbit run,and bully..
Yoo proof- ja in a bra💥💥
Cinderella Man is on Recovery
I do the same with my writing books/stories. I think to much to where I'm constantly editing lol
man Bully is such an old song and amazing track. Shit man I can link you over 200 em songs you have NEVER heard before. I'm a huge fan - mostly of the unreleased shit since I think it's some of the best lyricism when he's coming at someones throat.
The guy singing name is script shepherd he created that song
I was bullied once till i figured out the awsomeness of my fist.
Cinderella man... gotta be his best song bar wise.. simply amazing!!
Cinderella Man was a boxing Movie
2011... one year after I graduated high school. Was just trying to figure life out!!! Man if i could go back now!!
Yo fiyaaaa reactions love dem bra!! Can you please do THE GAME FT EMINEM- WE AINT! AND PROOF FT EMINEM-WE AINT SCARED hardest most underrated ever bro fire start to finish in every aspect 🔥🔥👐🎤
The diss track "Bully" is aimed at rappers Benzino, Irv Gotti and Ja Rule.
More eminem man!!
Great video bro! If it wasn't for youtubers like you I wouldn't be able to learn about great new artists. The underground rappers are dope as fuck. Thanks for the help
Toronto born and Brooklyn raisedsinger-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album. is what us says online brother on Cinderella Man
The singer in Cinderella Man sounds like Seal.
Rise Against- Hero of war. Please react to this one. Greetings from Lithuania!
I forgot your doing Em. I saw Cinderella Man and thought you were doing some old obscure Rush for a second.
“Cinderella man, hang on to your plans, try as they might they cannot stop his dreams.” Haha. Love Rush.
Cinderella is a rags to riches story
In 2011 I was 21 years old, in the Army, stationed in Alaska lol..
Run rabbit run is from 8 mile. This is based on his Jimmy Smith character.
So we just gonna ignore the fact that Eminem said if he was killed for the rap he would put a hit out on him
Eminem- don’t front
Damn,that Cinderella man is catchy af!!😎
I was bobbing my head right along with you!!😉
There is a movement
Marshall Mathers LP.
The Eminem Show.
Recovery.
8 Mile OST.
Great video. You have the most honest reviews on CZcams. Thank you
Cinderella man is that boxer movie
Could be wrong, just going off memory but Rabbit run was off 8 mile, Cinderella man was off recovery and Bully was just a diss track that wasn’t released on any project
I know two of these, Cinderella man I know by name, run rabbit I know but didnt know the name and bully i hadn't heard before. But I'm loving the song bully now
Cinderella Man= Given another chance.
In my head I also think Cinderella man= Send a realier man. That's just me though. Lol.
Beautiful !
Run Rabbit is on the 8 Mile soundtrack, but I don't recall it being in the movie.
Guess it's time to dust off the old DVD.
Cinderella Man is Funk Flex’s favorite song from Em. He says it GOES in the club when he plays it and people always goes crazy. Cinderella Man is a true story movie about a talented boxer from the Great Depression era. He was known as the only fighter that could not be knocked out no matter how hard he got hit. He overcomes a lot of difficult situations to become a champion fighter.
5:05 All writers, artists, and creative types know this feeling bro. I am presently in this feeling - and have been feeling this way for a while.
Cendarella man means send a rella man
Check out the movie Cinderella Man, then give the song another listen. The context is important (not like Eminem ever wrote a song where some context isn't helpful). It's about a boxers fight through the great depression and fights the guy who literally killed his last opponent. I mean, he snapped this guy's fuckin neck with a punch
Eminem is one of those people where you swear you heard everything they ever did but every now and then you find a random single from 7 years ago or something you've never heard
Cinderella Man is the meaning the two step sisters as in what rap is (black and black)you got scared that it's not vanilla ice 😜😜😤
That 8mile soundtrack was slept on..
Lot of 🔥🔥 tracks on there..
This is where “Lose Yourself”
“Rabbit Run” and Includes 🔥 fromJay z,
Nas, Gangstarr, Obie, and Rakim
Also, Cinderella Man is so underrated..
Oh and “Bully” was a diss at Bennzino on the 1st verse and Murder INC later
Add Nipsey to that list of amazing artists that we’ve lost 😰
Nahhhh he don’t belong nowhere near the greats
Jacob
Yeah he does
Cinderella man = Send a realla man
Dude wrote a song about not being able to create 🤔 three relentless minutes later without a hook I need a nap 😮
I was working the morning after recovery dropped but as soon as I went on break I went to best buy and grabbed the album
Underrated channel! You should be more active on Twitter to reach more people
From song facts: Toronto born and Brooklyn raised singer-songwriter Script Shepherd supplied the beat for this track. He also sung the chorus - the first time he'd ever got to sing a guest hook on an album.
Shepherd and his team sent the track with the hook to Eminem's camp and the Detroit rapper chose the song through Shady A&R rep Riggs Morales. Script only got to hear the finished version when Recoveryleaked. "I was in the bathroom," he recalled to MTV News "My wife called me, and I thought it was a bug [in the house]. She was like, 'You gotta come now.' It was amazing. I was in the house with my family. My kids were going to sleep. I woke them up. It was such a tight-knit project. I didn't have a copy of it. I heard it on the Internet like everybody else, and I was the most excited person in the world, besides my wife."
Despite sharing the title with 2005 movie The Cinderella Man, the song was not inspired by the Russell Crowe flick. At the time Shepherd was getting over the loss of his older brother who got stabbed in front of his mother. He explained; "I liked the film. But at the time, I was going through a hard time. My brother had just passed away.
It's a stadium feel, an anthem," Shepherd added about the song. "Like marching, marching towards something. The sound is big, the message is big on the record. It's about just coming from nothing, not doubting yourself. It sounds like you're marching towards a goal. The guitars are rifting, and it has little bells keeping it melodic. It's a strong record that's motivating. And Em did something motivating with it. I just wanted to have people feel like they're moving with the record, have a Rocky feel. It sounded more authentic to have people feel like they were stomping in the record."
Shepherd explained the chorus is meant to inspire. "The hook says, 'If I had a time machine, I'd be a Cinderella man/ Music is my time machine/ Call me Cinderella man,' " he said. "Basically, it's like, music can allow you to do all types of things. You can change the world with music. You can go back and enlighten and move people forward just with sounds and connection. Music is a time machine."
EMINEM ❤💙💚
Eminem. Yellow Brick Road.
A place for my head live 2004 Linkin Park ! It’s lit you’ll love it