Donald Trump used to be lauded in hip-hop tracks for his wealth. Now? Not so much. These days artists from Joey Bada$$ to Roger Waters and YG are turning their fury with the president into song
Eminem has hardly been the name on people’s lips recently. Since his imperial heyday – when this newspaper wrote about him as a poet, contrasting him with Eliot, Whitman, Browning, Tennyson, Frost and pretty much every other poet ever bar Pam Ayres – his stock has slumped. He bucked the market in Eminem futures on Tuesday, though, with an anti-Trump freestyle that aired during the BET Hip Hop awards. In a few ferocious minutes, Eminem excoriated Trump for his attitudes to race, Puerto Rico, gun control, captured soldiers and pretty much everything else, before telling Americans to “stand up” and sending a message to his own fans “And 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 / Fuck you!”
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