Eminem,
the top-selling rapper of all time, made a rare and unexpected
appearance in a recorded video aired during hip-hop’s premier awards
show.
With a
hoodie over his head and visceral anger in his voice, Eminem rapped
freestyle from inside a parking ramp as an entourage stood guard behind
him.
Eminem in
his profanity-laden salvo decried Trump as both incompetent and
prejudiced, rapping: “Racism’s the only thing he’s fantastic for.”
“We
better give Obama props / ‘Cause what we got in office now’s a kamikaze /
That’ll probably cause a nuclear holocaust,” Eminem said in a likely
reference to Trump’s Twitter war of words with North Korean strongman
Kim Jong-Un.
Eminem, who is by far the most successful white rapper, ends the video by demanding that his fans forswear Trump.
“Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his — I’m drawing a line in the sand / You’re either for or against,” he said.
Eminem pledged
solidarity with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin
Kaepernick, whose protests against racism during the US national anthem
have triggered an intensifying row as Trump demands that athletes stand
for the flag.
Trump
“gets an enormous reaction when he attacks the NFL / So we focus on that
instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun control for
Nevada,” Eminem rapped, referring to the devastation of Hurricane Maria
and the massacre at a concert in Las Vegas.
“All these horrible tragedies and he’s bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers,” Eminem quipped.
“Now if
you’re a black athlete you’re a spoiled little brat for trying to use
your platform or stature to try to give those a voice who don’t have
one,” he said.
Eminem,
whose music is rarely overtly political, made the intervention a year
after releasing his last song — also a denunciation of Trump recorded in
the run-up to the election.
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