Eminem’s ‘Bodied’, ‘8 Mile’ and Death Note: Movie review Last night, I had an epiphany. If I bought Youtube Premium, I can watch Eminem produced ‘BODIED’. So I went into my wallet, dug out my card and got access to the movie. I watched it in the night with no pauses in between. For those of you who don’t know what the movie is all about, it is about battle rap. It’s not rap battles, its more than that. But why would I draw parallels with 8 Mile, a movie starring Eminem himself, and Death Note, a standout anime series about murder and mystery? Lets tackle one at a time shall we? BODIED AND 8 MILE Now there are a lot of parallels I could draw even before watching this movie. Another scrawny white kid learning how to stand out in the crowd of black people. If you think that was incomplete or vague, that’s as far as the similarities go. BODIED is about the concept of battle rapping, whereas 8 mile is the movie of one character as he grows and finds his place in the s...