(CNN) If you want Eminem at your function, all you've got to do is ask. Maybe he'll say yes on the second try.

Academy Award winner Marshall Mathers popped up from under Dolby Theater stage on Sunday, capping a montage honoring music in movies. Suddenly, his 2002 hit "Lose Yourself" started to play to the surprise and muted enthusiasm of attendees and viewers at home.

Idina Menzel head-bobbed against her better judgment, but her pained expression told the story. Meanwhile, Kelly Marie Tran, of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" fame, rapped every word.

"Lose Yourself" won Eminem the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2003 -- so why, in 2020, was he back on our screens, rapping about Mom's spaghetti?

Consider the 92nd Academy Awards a do-over for the 2003 ceremony. In an interview with Variety , Eminem said he never expected to win back then, so he didn't go. Plus, he'd performed "Lose Yourself" on the Grammys that year a few weeks earlier.

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