About halfway through 8 Mile, Eminem’s character, B-Rabbit, interrupts a casual rap battle happening between his car factory co-workers on their lunch break. Xzibit, playing a guy named Mike ...

Anthony Mackie revealed on “The Pivot Podcast” Tuesday that his life story was used by Eminem as inspiration for their infamous rap battle at the end of “8 Mile.” “We’re on set one day ...

8 Mile is a semi-fictionalized account of Eminem's rise through the ranks of the Detroit rap scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s. At the film's climax, Eminem's Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr ...

Anthony Mackie didn’t lose himself while filming the final 8 Mile rap battle against Eminem — but he did he recall things getting very personal. “We’re doing the movie and, you know ...

When B-Rabbit torched Papa Doc in 8 Mile’s iconic final rap battle, it was actually Eminem taking shots at Anthony Mackie. On the March 11 episode of Pivot Podcast, Mackie, 46, revealed that the ...

Anthony Mackie says Eminem actually dissed him while filming the iconic rap battle scene in 8 Mile. On Tuesday, March 11, The Pivot podcast released its interview with the star of Captain America ...

The Shady Records-sponsored "8 Mile" screenings came hours after Eminem dropped the latest clue ... a veteran Detroit MC who played the blue-collar rap battler Vanessa, has experienced much ...

A Marvel star made his big screen debut in “8 Mile,” and he’ll never forget it. Anthony Mackie, who played battle rapper Papa Doc in the 2002 movie, revealed in a new interview that Eminem ...

Eminem provoked outrage with The Marshall Mathers LP, which was notorious for its offensive lyrics. Now it has become an even ...

8 Mile hit theaters in 2002 ... is still beloved over two decades later, Eminem's co-star revealed the rapper 'tricked' him during one of the rap battle scenes. Who is the co-star who was tricked?

And when Eminem went to rap about Papa Doc — revealing that his ... Mackie graduated from Julliard’s drama division in 2001, and 8 Mile was his film debut. It was also Eminem’s first film.