Eminem/Awesome

• Beating U2 for Best Original Song at the 75th Academy Awards.
  • Lose Yourself became the first rap song to win an Oscar.
• Performing at the Grammys with the biggest gay entertainer alive as a Take That to people who said he was homophobic.
• Not Afraid, his newest single, seems to be an actual apology to the people he's wronged and a denouncement of the people who put words into his mouth, not to mention a pledge to be a better person.
  • The song drips with Heroic Resolve:

And I just can't keep living this way
So starting today
I'm breaking out of this cage
I'm standing up, I'ma face my demons
I'm manning up, I'ma hold my ground
I've had enough, now I'm so fed up
Time to put my life back together right now

• When Benzino and hip-hop magazine the Source responded to his disses by digging into his past and finding a tape where he said something racist about black women, did he diss them back? No... rather, he sued them for defamation of character, got millions of dollars, and Benzino and David Mayes got fired from the Source, which lost almost all credibility.