The real Slim Shady did rise — against presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy who sang his song.
Eminem sent a cease and desist letter to Ramaswamy’s campaign team after the Republican presidential candidate rapped his hit “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair.
A representative for Eminem’s music license, BMI, informed the campaign’s attorney that it had “received a communication from Marshall B. Mathers III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions (‘Eminem Works’) and asking BMI to remove all Eminem Works from Covenant.
“This letter serves as notice that Eminem Works is excluded from the Agreement with immediate effect,” 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 onward to be a serious breach of the Agreement, for which BMI reserves all rights and remedies in respect thereof.”
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, raps “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair.AFP via Getty Images
Eminem’s music licensor, IBM, sent a cease and desist letter to Ramaswamy’s campaign.
The letter comes just 11 days after Ramaswamy performed “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair in response to Governor Kim Reynolds asking him to name his favorite song.
“Vivek just got on stage and let himself go,” his campaign spokesman told the Mail following the cease-and-desist letter.
“To the dismay of the American people, we have to hand the rap over to the real Slim Shady.”
Ramaswamy has long been a fan of Eminem, saying he related to him.FilmMagic
Ramaswamy, 38, has long been a fan of the Detroit rapper – even doing his own libertarian-themed rap under the stage name Da Vek when he was a graduate student at Harvard.
“I didn’t grow up the way he did,” the Republican told the New York Times earlier this year, noting that he is the son of successful Indian immigrants. “But the idea of being an underdog, people who have low expectations of you, that part spoke to me.”
He later said Eminem was “a man in every way who shouldn’t have done what he did.”
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