It ranked 166th in the list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, according to Rolling Stone.
The first rap song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Eminem was the only rapper to win a Oscar for three years, until rap group Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar for their song It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp for the film Hustle and Flow.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100.
Eminem wrote this song in the breaks while shooting for 8 mile.
Eminem was sober when he recorded this song