To accompany the release of new "Shady XV" compilation in stores today, Eminem unleashed the inspirational, boxing-themed music video for "Guts Over Fear," a triumphant single focused on resiliency in the face of adversity, and featuring Australian singer Sia. Follow your dreams. Fight your fears and overcome the odds! Here's the heavy new video, focusing on an aspiring boxer's path from poverty to redemption, we've all been waiting for.
Eminem has become a master motivator and With his latest, the Sia-assisted synth heavy empowering "Guts Over Fear," he was certainly at it again. The rapper wrote this uplifting, anthemic song for the closing credits song for Denzel Washington's movie "The Equalizer," the big screen re-imagining of the late 1980s TV show. It finds Eminem reflecting on his own struggles as an artist, and touches up on moments of his career as he hopes how his story of overcoming a difficult childhood will continue to inspire others.
Filmed in Detroit, the clip, directed by Syndrome, opens with an athlete preparing for a fight backstage. But the action jumps back six months earlier to show his downtrodden home life and out on his luck as he struggles to pay the bills and provide for his alcoholic father who never believed in him and pregnant girlfriend. As family and work issues continue to mount. But, luckily, our protagonist puts his guts over his fear, and takes out his frustrations on his opponents, continuing to build his boxing skills.
Eventually, we see him inch towards greatness. With a shiny red robe on, he heads out to a ring in front of a packed house for what looks to be a title bout. Eminem's lyrics mirror the story, as he raps in his classic rapid-fire cadence about escaping from the trailer park into the world's stadiums. "The crazy part/ Was as soon I stopped singing I gave a fuck/ Haters started to appreciate my art," he rhymes over dark piano and a skittering beat. Meanwhile, Sia builds momentum with her soulful chorus hook about how she now feels emboldened in the face of adversity.
Eminem has become a master motivator and With his latest, the Sia-assisted synth heavy empowering "Guts Over Fear," he was certainly at it again. The rapper wrote this uplifting, anthemic song for the closing credits song for Denzel Washington's movie "The Equalizer," the big screen re-imagining of the late 1980s TV show. It finds Eminem reflecting on his own struggles as an artist, and touches up on moments of his career as he hopes how his story of overcoming a difficult childhood will continue to inspire others.
Filmed in Detroit, the clip, directed by Syndrome, opens with an athlete preparing for a fight backstage. But the action jumps back six months earlier to show his downtrodden home life and out on his luck as he struggles to pay the bills and provide for his alcoholic father who never believed in him and pregnant girlfriend. As family and work issues continue to mount. But, luckily, our protagonist puts his guts over his fear, and takes out his frustrations on his opponents, continuing to build his boxing skills.
Eventually, we see him inch towards greatness. With a shiny red robe on, he heads out to a ring in front of a packed house for what looks to be a title bout. Eminem's lyrics mirror the story, as he raps in his classic rapid-fire cadence about escaping from the trailer park into the world's stadiums. "The crazy part/ Was as soon I stopped singing I gave a fuck/ Haters started to appreciate my art," he rhymes over dark piano and a skittering beat. Meanwhile, Sia builds momentum with her soulful chorus hook about how she now feels emboldened in the face of adversity.
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