If Lose Yourself came out today

[Hopsinshadie]

I don't know about all this. All the songs that sounded dope then still sound dope. The only difference is that I may have heard it 1000 times by now, that's the only difference, so it's not as fresh. But I wouldn't have liked Survival in 02. In 02, music was better, more competitive. So why would Survival get more praise then when it would be competing against better music? Makes no sense. At a time when 50 Cent came out and we had TES and 8 Mile? No way in hell would Survival be good in 02. You guys got it all wrong. The only reason why it's tolerated today is because there's so few good mainstream rappers out.

Now days people only see the shit they don't like. Lose Yourself comes out today, all these people will see is the corniness.

No, this is not so. I'm sure people found it corny then and do now. Just look at the posters now that are saying they always thought it was corny. The truth is if Lose Yourself came out it would be a number one hit. Even Not Afraid debuted as a number one hit. Do you know how much better Lose YOURSELF is compared to Not Afraid?

[EminemInsider]

Add "Corny" to the list of words that have been so overused that it has lost all meaning, alongside "Swag" and "Classic".
Lose Yourself was dope then, and it's dope now.

Well, yeah, that's true too. People use words like "corny" and "cheesy" and "campy" and it's anyone's guess by what someone actually means by them these days. It's usually the person trying to say something is "unKEWL," for whatever reason, but other people have weird ideas as to what the words actually mean. Campy is the stupidest one. Originally, it just meant "gay" or "theatrical/flamboyant in a homosexual style." Now people use it as a synonym for "cheesy," or they use it to classify silly things that are clearly intended to be funny as "campy," which essentially means you could call every comedy ever made "camp."

A better way to put it is simply, "You can do anything you set your mind to" is cliche and naive.