Rap star Eminem has formally asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping his campaign songs, according to a letter released Monday.
The American organization for the protection of musical rights, BMI, indicated in a letter revealed by the DailyMail that it had received “an official request” from Eminem demanding that the thirty-year-old candidate no longer use his music.
Lawsuits?
This complete political rookie, who likes to imagine himself in “Trump 2.0,” now ranks, to everyone’s surprise, third in the polls for the Republican primary, held 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,” he humorously noted. the crimsonthe university’s student newspaper, in 2006.
During the last two presidential elections, several renowned artists, including Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Aerosmith or Adele, as well as Prince’s heirs, had complained that their titles were reproduced during Donald Trump’s campaign rallies.
The famous British rock band Rolling Stones even threatened the Republican with legal action if he continued to use his hit. You can’t always get what you want.
Source: BFM TV
