Vivek, please stand down. Rap star Eminem has formally asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping on his campaign tracks, according to a letter released Monday.
A video of the entrepreneur, who is enjoying a surprise rise in the Republican primary race, rapping to the track Lose Yourself at a political event in Iowa, went viral a few weeks ago.
The American organization for the protection of musical rights, BMI, indicated in a missive revealed by the DailyMail and whose authenticity was confirmed to AFP that it had received “an official request” from Eminem demanding that the thirty-year-old candidate not use his music more.
rapping at harvard
This complete political novice, who likes to imagine himself in “Trump 2.0”, now occupies, to everyone’s surprise, third place in the polls for the Republican primaries, organized in early 2024.
During his studies at Harvard, he was noted for his talents as a rapper, under the nickname “Da Vek”, an alter ego follower of libertarian texts. “If you think speaker Vivek Ramaswamy is intense, you haven’t met Da Vek yet,” The Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, humorously noted in 2006.
During the last two presidential elections, several renowned artists, including Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Aerosmith or Adele, as well as the heirs of Prince, had complained that their titles were played during Donald Trump campaign meetings.
The famous British rock band Rolling Stones even threatened the Republican with legal action if he continued to use their hit You Can’t Always Get What You Want.