The real Slim Shady stood up and said, “We’re gonna have a problem here,” after a GOP presidential candidate played Eminem music at campaign events.
A BMI representative informed Ramaswamy’s campaign’s lawyer in an August 23 letter that their client objects to the campaign’s use of his music, according to a report from the Daily Mail.
The label “received communications from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions (the “Eminem Works”) and requesting that BMI remove all Eminem Works from the Agreement,” BMI explained in the letter.
“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 performed Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair before an early morning crowd gathered to hear him speak alongside Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA).
Iowa’s governor asked the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur his favorite walkout song, which Ramaswamy answered by saying it was Eminem’s “Lose Yourself.”
As the song began playing over loudspeakers around the stage, Ramaswamy grabbed the mic and created a viral campaign trail moment, according to the Mail report.
“Vivek just got on the stage and cut loose,” explained a spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s campaign. “To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady.”
The GOP candidate had performed libertarian-themed raps as “Da Vek” during his Harvard undergraduate years and has reportedly been a longtime fan of Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem.
‘I did not grow up in the circumstances he did,” Ramaswamy said during a New York Times interview, “but the idea of being an underdog, people having low expectations of you, that part speaks to me.”
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