Slim Shady says cease and desist.
According to a report from The New York Post, Grammy Award-winning rapper Eminem has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the campaign of 2024 GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy after footage of the candidate rapping his hit “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair earlier this month.
“This letter serves as notice that the Eminem Works are excluded from the Agreement effective immediately,” continued the letter first obtained by the Daily Mail.
“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.”
Ramaswamy’s performance of “Lose Yourself” was met with mixed reactions but immediately went viral earlier this month.
“Vivek just got on the stage and cut loose,” a spokesperson for his campaign told the Mail following the cease-and-desist letter.
“To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real Slim Shady.”
Ramaswamy has long been a fan of rap and hip-hop, even performing under the name “Da Vek” during his time as an undergrad at Harvard.
“I did not grow up in the circumstances he did,” the Republican told the New York Times earlier this year. “But the idea of being an underdog, people having low expectations of you, that part speaks to me.”
He then said Eminem is a “guy in every sense who was not supposed to be doing what he did.”
Conservative commentator Greg Price was quick to share how out of touch Eminem may be with Vivek Ramaswamy’s GOP platform.
“Right before the 2004 election, Eminem released an anti-Bush song called “Mosh.” One of its lyrics was “No more blood for oil. We got our own battles to fight on our own soil.” Now he’s angry that the the most anti-war candidate in the GOP primary sang his song at an event.”
Right before the 2004 election, Eminem released an anti-Bush song called "Mosh."
One of its lyrics was "No more blood for oil. We got our own battles to fight on our own soil."
Now he's angry that the the most anti-war candidate in the GOP primary sang his song at an event. https://t.co/jXtQv0YBS7
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 28, 2023
More over at The New York Post:
Eminem bans Vivek Ramaswamy from rapping his songs during his 2024 presidential campaign https://t.co/ocnMsdarGG pic.twitter.com/T1vjsLh1PW
— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2023
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