Eminem Wants Vivek Ramaswamy To Stop Rapping His Songs At Campaign Stops

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Rapper Eminem wants Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop losing himself “in the music.”

The musician sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding that that the GOP hopeful stop performing his 2002 smash hit “Lose Yourself” on the campaign trail.

According to Variety, music licenser BMI sent the legal letter to the Roivant Sciences founder’s campaign lawyer on August 23, protesting to the use of the song.

“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,” the letter stated.

Ramaswamy closed his “Fair Side Chat” event at the Iowa State Fair earlier this month, with the unexpected rapping on stage.

“The whole crowd goes so loud, he opens his mouth but the words won’t come out, he’s choking, how, everybody’s joking now, the clock’s run out, time’s up, over, blaow,” he spat into the microphone as the rapper’s hit blasted over speakers in the background.

Prior to unexpectedly bursting into song, the 38-year-old told Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), that “Lose Yourself” was his favorite song to play while walking out onto stage at political events.

“It’s like, young and scrappy,” Ramaswamy explained Reynolds.

“I am really starting to understand my age,” the 64-year-old politician replied. “I’m going to have to go look that up.”

Ramaswamy told Politico that he often performed the song at open-mic nights while attending Harvard.

“He’s growing up in the trailers, with a single mom, and he wants to make it. He’s going to use the moment to do it,” he said about the song from soundtrack of Eminem’s Academy Award winning 2002 biopic, “8 Mile.”

“He feels like he’s going to use the moment to do it, he seizes it and then he makes it happen, and I thought it was a pretty cool story.”

The Republican primary candidate, who was born to immigrant parents in Cincinnati said that his upbringing was different than his collegiate classmates.

“I didn’t grow up in a trailer, but I also didn’t grow up in the same circumstances that most of my peers at Harvard did, either,” he told the outlet.

“I aspired to achieve what many of their parents did. It kind of spoke to me, I would say.”

Ramaswamy, who went by the stage name “Da Vek” while rapping in college, believed he would succeed in business just as Eminem did at hip-hop.

“I saw myself, honestly, making it big through American capitalism, and that’s why the Eminem story spoke to me,” he remarked.

The Iowa State Fair wasn’t the first time that Ramaswamy has brought out his alter-ego on the campaign trail.

When he appeared on “Fox & Friends” at the end of July, co-host Steve Doocy asked investment firm founder about his bar-spitting past.

“Some of these opposition research stories are false, but I will confirm that one is true,” he detailed.

“I was a little bit of a libertarian freestyle in college and had some fun with it.”

Ramaswamy took the opportunity to poorly freestyle about his campaign while Doocy awkwardly clapped and bobbed along.

“I open up by saying, ‘My name is Vivek, It rhymes with cake,” he began.

“It ain’t about me, It is about thee, The United States is about liberty,” Ramaswamy clumsily rhymed.

“So “Fox & Friends” join us on the trail, We’ll have some fun,” he concluded. “I’ll see you on the trail.”

But in the future, it seems that the GOP candidate will have to “lose” himself in a different artist’s music when he tries to rally constituents.

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