Eminem Demands Vivek Ramaswamy Stop Using His Music After He Raps ‘Lose Yourself’ In Iowa

The rapper Eminem has demanded that Vivek Ramaswamy cease utilizing his music on the marketing campaign path after the Republican presidential candidate launched into an impromptu rap efficiency of his hit tune “Lose Your self” throughout a cease in Iowa.

Vivek Ramaswamy rapping lose your self is among the funniest and coolest issues I’ve seen a presidential candidate do. pic.twitter.com/uYx4XRvMM4

— Jason’s Dialog Station (@Jasonsstation94) August 19, 2023

Eminem Sends Stop And Desist Letter To Ramaswamy

Daily Mail reported that video went viral earlier this month through which Ramaswamy confirmed off his rap expertise by performing “Lose Your self” throughout a marketing campaign cease on the Iowa State Honest. This didn’t sit properly with Eminem, who instantly reached out to the music licenser BMI asking that Ramaswamy’s marketing campaign have their license to make use of his music revoked.

On August 23, a BMI consultant despatched a letter to Ramaswamy’s marketing campaign’s lawyer saying that the label had “acquired communications from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally often called Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy marketing campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions (the ‘Eminem Works’) and requesting that BMI take away all Eminem Works from the Settlement.”

The consultant from BMI went on to say that “this letter serves as discover that the Eminem Works are excluded from the Settlement efficient instantly.”

“BMI will contemplate any efficiency of the Eminem Works by the Vivek 2024 marketing campaign from this date ahead to be a cloth breach of the Settlement for which BMI reserves all rights and cures  with respect thereto,” the letter continued.

Eminem is barely going to make Vivek Ramaswamy much more common with this ridiculous order for him to cease rapping his songs. I can’t wait to see how this performs out in courtroom. pic.twitter.com/4u1VCZFayA

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2023

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Ramaswamy Responds

A spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s marketing campaign responded to the stop and desist letter by saying, “Vivek simply obtained on the stage and reduce unfastened. To the American individuals’s chagrin, we must go away the rapping to the actual slim shady.”

Ramaswamy himself additionally had a lighthearted response on Twitter.

“Will The REAL Slim Shady Please Stand Up? He didn’t simply say what I believe he did, did he? @Eminem,” he wrote alongside a screenshot of a report on the stop and desist letter. 

Will The REAL Slim Shady Please Stand Up? He didn’t simply say what I believe he did, did he? @Eminem 😅 https://t.co/iOOuG6SU2D

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 28, 2023

Throughout his time attending Harvard College, Ramaswamy was identified for performing libertarian-themed raps underneath the stage identify “Da Vek.” He has additionally been a fan of Eminem’s work for a few years.

“I didn’t develop up within the circumstances he did,” Ramaswamy lately instructed The New York Times of Eminem. “However the thought of being an underdog, individuals having low expectations of you, that half speaks to me.”

Ramaswamy went on to say that Eminem, who’s a white rapper, is a “man in each sense who was not alleged to be doing what he did.”

Eminem has despatched a stop and desist letter to Vivek Ramaswamy. The rapper knowledgeable Vivek to cease utilizing his music on the marketing campaign path. The letter was despatched after Vivek went viral for rapping “Lose Your self” onstage on the Iowa State Honest. pic.twitter.com/stgJPAIYTx

— Lovable Liberal and his Outdated English sheepdog (@DougWahl1) August 29, 2023

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Different Artists Cease Republicans From Utilizing Their Music

It’s sadly frequent for Republican politicians to obtain stop and desist letters akin to this one from musicians who’re attempting to be woke. CNBC reported that the previous President Donald Trump has acquired such letters from many common artists, together with the Rolling Stones, Queen, Adele, Rihanna, and Pharrell Williams.

“I don’t assume it has something to do with cash. It has to do with the political viewpoint of the artist or songwriter or writer,” Chuck Rubin, founding father of Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation, lately instructed Rolling Stone. “However they do have the correct to both say yea or nay.”

That could be so, however given how extremely biased the music trade is in the direction of the left, it’s unhappy that Democrat lawmakers nearly by no means should take care of this nonsense, and are free to make their occasions as hip and stylish as will be by that includes the newest hit songs.

Eminem can attempt to cease Ramaswamy from utilizing his music all he needs to, however the viral video of the Republican candidate enjoying “Lose Your self” will at all times reside on. Maybe Ramaswamy ought to take a look at this as a constructive factor, because it may enable him to carry out one among his personal unique raps subsequent time!