There is no shortage of haters for Trump and his virulent presidency, as seen by the stands taken by both celebrities and citizens from countries all over the world. Everyone has an opinion about the current president of America, and most of it isn’t positive.
Earlier this week at the BET Hip Hop Awards, we also found that Eminem wasn’t a fan of his own country’s president, treating us to a four-minute takedown of Trump that was pure gold. Straight up savage, this is probably one of the best disses in hip hop history!
Eminem doesn’t hold back with any of his vulgarities, which isn’t surprising since he’s going up against an equally vulgar president (and you gotta fight fire with fire, right?). Calling Trump out on his excessive spending, his lack of support for war veterans and his comments attacking athletes and Senator John McCain, Eminem hit the nail on the head with his rhymes. The only thing that kind of disappointed us was that even Eminem can’t find a word that rhymes with ‘orange’, because there are some limits to being a god.
‘”All these horrible tragedies and he’s bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm”
Instead of just calling Trump names which is rather entertaining in itself (“And keep that s— balled like Donald the b—-“), Eminem brings to light many challenges that black Americans face like racism, police violence and urban poverty that Trump is happily overlooking to cause a Twitter storm. Just in case you started lambasting Eminem for being one-sided, do remember that he grew up in urban Detroit, which means that he is very familiar with both working-class whites and urban blacks to make qualified judgments.
“Now if you’re a black athlete, you’re a spoiled little brat for/Tryna use your platform or your stature/To try to give those a voice who don’t have one.”
Eminem has always been very open about where his political support lies. Previously in 2004, he released ‘Mosh’, a song where he voices his disagreement with Bush and his administration’s agenda to remain in Iraq and continue the War On Terror in the Middle East. Despite all the backlash, the song and the album went on to sell more than 5 million copies.
Ironically though, it’s interesting that Eminem tells his fans that ‘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 and you’re split On who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for you with this: F— you.’ There is a lot of overlap between Eminem’s and Trump’s fans, but the rapper is not standing for any of it. And he has good reasons not to.
The funniest part of this entire smackdown? It’s that Trump once supported Eminem to become president in a fictional political run in 2004 on MTV to promote a convention. Oh how the tables have turned. Eminem’s got Trump’s vote, but Trump sure doesn’t have Eminem’s.
Poor Trump, it looks like everyone is against you. But it’s not like you have a good track record anyway, as laid out in Eminem’s rap.
Basically your takeaway from this is: don’t anger Marshall Mathers because he’ll come straight for you, whether you’re a fan or not. Oh, and Eminem really, really, really hates Trump.
