That’s what happened to Eminem, when he revealed back in 2014 that there’s a whole other version of ‘Lose Yourself’ that he just forgot about working on.

It must be nice having so many songs at your disposal that you can just put one to the back of your mind.

It’s been more than 22 years since the release of the iconic track, ‘Lose Yourself’, which first featured on the 8 Mile soundtrack in 2002.

The track featured the now infamous lyrics about ‘mom’s spaghetti‘ which spawned a thousand memes.

Meme fame aside, the song even won an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2003.

He even appeared to perform the song at the Super Bowl Halftime show, but the performance could have been very different if he released a different version of the track.

Back in 2014, he confirmed the existence of a ‘scratch’ version of the song that he has no recollection of.

The video was shared on the YouTube channel ‘EminemMusic’, and showed the rapper dropping the bombshell about the existence of another version of ‘Lose Yourself’ that he doesn’t ‘even remember recording’.

The ‘scratch’ track has been praised by fans (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

He continued: “I don’t remember where I was at when I recorded it.

“I don’t remember any of the first verse. I don’t remember.”

The video featured a teaser of this forgotten version, and included a clip which said: “If I was frozen inside of a moment/If I could capture time inside a capsule.”

There was also a caption on the video, which reads: “The full story behind ‘Lose Yourself’ coming soon.”

Fans raced to the comment section to share their excitement about the elusive clip.

Another fan raved: “Good f**king God. One of his best songs could possibly be about to get better!”

A third viewer of the video exclaimed: “I love the idea of a hidden masterpiece by Eminem, he is by far one if the best rappers to date, you don’t see him get over hyped by “the game” he just makes raps about him, I just really want this track it sounds sweet and if even the creator can’t remember then it must be epic.”

This viewer said excitedly: “The fact that he can write 2 versions of the same song, have both versions be impeccable, and that he had totally forgotten writing this version is just mind-boggling to me.”

“This is a throw away demo and is still better than 90% of what is released today. His rhyming ability on tempo is the best I’ve ever heard and is still is to this day,” praised one listener.

It looks like Em isn’t a fan of Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

During an Iowa campaign stop, Ramaswamy was captured grabbing the microphone and spitting a couple of bars to the rapper’s 2002 Academy-winning song.

Before he started, the Republican revealed that the song was his favorite.

It has to be the most evident attempt to connect with the youths on a campaign trail since Hilary Clinton admitted to radio station Power 105.1 that she keeps ‘hot sauce in her bag’.

Ah, politicians..they’re just like us!

But the ‘Without Me’ rapper apparently didn’t appreciate the tribute as he has sent out a cease and desist letter under known music licenser BMI, demanding that the politician stop using his song.

As per Variety, the letter said the rapper is ‘objecting to the campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions’.

“BMI will consider any performance of the Eminem Works by the Vivek 2024 campaign from this date forward to be a material breach of the Agreement for which BMI reserves all rights and remedies with respect thereto,” the letter added.

UNILAD has approached Mr Ramaswamy for comment.

In an interview with The New York Times, Ramaswamy spoke about his affinity for the artist.

“I did not grow up in the circumstances he did,” said Ramaswamy, the son of a physician mother and engineer father.

“But the idea of being an underdog, people having low expectations of you, that part speaks to me.”

Elsewhere in the article, Soren Baker, a historian of rap and the author of The History of Gangster Rap questioned the politician’s love for Eminem and hip-hop.

Ramaswamy has made several controversial comments on race, including the statement ‘reverse racism is racism’ and claiming a lot of racism is ‘manufactured’.

Baker said that the genre is synonymous with Black struggle, but the politician’s conservative views don’t reflect that.

“What Vivek is doing is trying to align himself with the struggle of overcoming adversity,” he said.

“From what I know of Vivek’s policies, objectives and goals, they’re not in alignment with Eminem at all.”

And it’s likely Em wouldn’t back the Republican either.

In 2017, during the BET Hip-Hop Awards, a video dropped of Em freestyling a rap and he had a special message for Donald Trump supporters.

He said: “Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either for or against, and if you can’t decide who you like more in your spilt, or who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for you with this… F**k you.”