Later in the decade, projects for The Nutty Professor and Bullworth produced massive hits that have far outlived the vehicles that showcased them. As hip-hop was becoming a titanic commercial force early in the decade-both on the Billboard charts and at the box office-heralded movies like Boyz n the Hood and Menace II Society enlisted a bevy of established stars while unearthing new talents for their accompanying albums, and sold a boatload of copies in the process. The ’90s marked the Golden Age of the rap soundtrack. If you asked Em, he’d probably swear it was worth it. It’s a soundtrack that functions as legend-building at its most audacious. It’s just that the cultural trappings of the record, like everything with Eminem, are so souped-up on testosterone, so acidic and sometimes just plain gross, that it no longer gets to be simply a piece of music. It’s got a Freeway verse on “8 Miles and Runnin’” where the Philly MC is at his barrelling peak (Hov manages to stretch his legs out for a bit on the track too).“Wanksta” may have looked like a mixtape-cut from 50 Cent’s “How to Rob” days, but it still holds up. It’s a lot like most Eminem albums, but with more features. The 8 Mile soundtrack is a good soundtrack. There’s a lot of baggage around this, so I’m going to try to tread lightly. Now that that’s covered, here are the 50 best soundtracks from the past 50 years. A tough beat for John Williams, to be sure. ![]() Second, in the spirit of Saturday Night Fever, only pure soundtracks were permitted-no scores. Our humblest apologies to The Graduate and The Wizard of Oz.
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