The rapper known as Eminem sent a cease and desist order to Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping his music on the campaign trail after Ramaswamy was seen rapping it at the Iowa fair.
The letter was actually sent to music licenser BMI and they in turn notified Ramaswamy that he’s no longer allowed to rap the song on the campaign trail.
Here’s more via Daily Mail:
The real Slim Shady has stood up – and has told 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stand down, and stop rapping to his tunes on the campaign trail.
The rapper Eminem reached out to the music licenser BMI and asked that the Ramaswamy campaign’s license to use his music be revoked, according to a letter obtained by DailyMail.com.
In a letter dated August 23, a representative for BMI informed the campaign’s lawyer that the label had ‘received communications from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions (the “Eminem Works”) and requesting that BMI remove all Eminem Works from the Agreement.’
The correspondence goes on to say that ‘this letter serves as notice that the Eminem Works are excluded from the Agreement effective immediately.’
‘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 read.
Ramaswamy’s campaign responded to the order:
To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady,’ a spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s campaign told DailyMail.com, reacting to the cease and desist letter.
What I absolutely hate about this is that there’s no way under the sun that Eminem would have ever done this if Obama or any other prominent Democrat candidate for office had rapped one of his tunes. It’s just so partisan and stupid. It was just a fun moment at the Iowa fair for Vivek and his fans and while I absolutely don’t care for Ramaswamy in the political sense, I hate the double standard being used against him.