Eminem would like Vivek Ramaswamy to stop losing himself to “Lose Yourself”
Eminem gets mom’s spaghetti all over Ramaswamy’s campaign
Aux News Vivek Ramaswamy
A right of passage for all rappers and Republican presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy is learning that this is no movie with no Mekhi Phifer. The fast-talking millennial Republican hopeful has spent the last month tearing up the campaign trail and hyping his karaoke version of Eminem’s Oscar-winning track, “Lose Yourself” from the movie 8 Mile. In at least one viral video, Ramaswamy raps along to Mr. Mathers’ music, which is certainly better than his aggressive tennis and 9/11 truther routines. Seriously, where do they keep finding these guys?
Per Variety, the real Slim Shady wasn’t feeling it and asked his licenser BMI to send a cease and desist to the Republican candidate, vomiting up mom’s spaghetti on Ramaswamy’s attempt to look cool. “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 states.
Compared to The Music Man’s Harold Hill by his colleagues in The New York Times, Ramaswamy is a biotech entrepreneur known for taking a drug that does nothing and advertising it as “maybe it’s good for Alzheimer’s patients?” However, he parlayed the millions made in his venture capital approach to pharmaceuticals into a political career where he can rage against conservative bogeymen like “the woke mob” and speed past flailing candidates like Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie. Recently, to appear as a living, breathing person with interests, he revived his Harvard libertarian hip-hop alter ego, Da Vek The Rapper, on the campaign trail. As of this reporting, a sadder tactic has yet to be discovered.
If one hates and wishes to torture oneself, a video of Ramaswamy doing karaoke to the track can be found below. It has all the intensity of a teen rapping along to the 8 Mile soundtrack at a middle school dance, reminding people of how cool they are for knowing the lyrics to a rap song.
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“Rite of passage.”
“Ramaswamy is a biotech entrepreneur known for taking a drug that does nothing and advertising it as “maybe it’s good for Alzheimer’s patients?””I would expect nothing less from a member of a party that has staked its entire identity on worshiping a con artist.
“reminding people of how cool they are for knowing the lyrics to a rap song.”
To be fair though, I will proudly demonstrate my perfect command of the lyrics to Ice Ice Baby any chance I get.
ETA: Really cool that the text edit features are broken now.
I won’t repeat them, but I can remember the lyrics we made up to ‘Ice Ice Baby’ about the one Asian kid in my grade school.
Hey you can just throw this anecdote away
Uh, I hope yuh know, saccharine child of the summer season, you’re not required to reply to everything, I hope yuh know!
Physician heal thyself
Feel myself? Don’t mind-if-I-dew!
No need to repeat them, the important thing is that you’re racist.
Seems like the vote system is too because I keep trying to give you a star and it won’t work
Oh ok good, it’s not just me. Voting is broken, trying to view pending doesn’t work, nor does trying to view more comments, and even posting takes FOREVER. I thought it was just my work pc being goofy.
I’m having the same problems, on multiple (well, 2) browsers.
Ages ago, when the AVC first opened up comments on the site, they snarkily billed it as “Now Tolerating Your Opinions”. What was a joke then seems to get more real on this site by the year. Some of this can be laid at the feet of Kinja, but I think another part of it is that very few writers actually engage with the comments (William Hughes on Friday’s WAYPTW is one of the rare exceptions).ETA: …and now when you click “Publish”, it just stalls forever. Cool.
Yeah same and I want to like all of these comments.
I once impressed a stripper by spitting Coolio’s “Gangster’s Paradise”. But the most impressive thing I ever saw was a KPMG-looking motherfucker do a flawless rendition of Young MC’s “Bust A Move” at pub karaoke. Flawless. Didn’t even look at the monitor. Knew the lyrics by heart.I say “KMPG-looking motherfucker” because he was 40, bald, had glasses like the portals on the Alvin submersible, and was wearing a KPMG windbreaker. Had a briefcase he left at the table he was sitting at alone.Flawless. People are grooving. And he spits the first verse so well this absolutely fine twenty-something chick, tight singlet, cut-off jeans, gorgeous, gets up from her table and gaggle of friends, grabs the second mic and sings the chorus: “You want it…you got it…You want it…baaaby, you got it.”One of the most awe-inspiring things I’ve witnessed in a pub. Nearly lost the woman I was with to him, and I probably wouldn’t’ve even been mad.
Sounds like the story where Andy Kaufman would go onstage at a club (before he was famous), introduced as “a really nice guy who helps out around here a lot, so give him some love”. He would go into his Latka Gravas character doing awful jokes and impersonations. Just as the audience was getting riled up, he would say that he wanted to do his Elvis impersonation. He started up some music, the audience would audibly groan, and then Andy would turn around and become Elvis. The voice, the mannerisms, all perfectly done. The audience would sit slack-jawed, Andy would finish, thank them as Latka, and leave the stage.
I know the rant from Denis Leary’s “I’m an asshole”.
Does that count?
I’ve got 3 full George Carlin specials and quite a few other of his bits on speed-dial in my brain. Doesn’t matter if it counts. It’s fulfilling on a whole different level, lol.I’m telling you, man, being able to slip “the King of Sweden is using my penis as a radio transmitter to send anti-semitic lesbian meatloaf recipes to Soupy Sales and Marvin Hamlisch,” into a conversation at just the right time is a skill you didn’t know you needed until you use it!
As a teen in nineties semi-rural England, mine was Turtle Power. Because even then, I knew better than to try performing Bring The Noise in public.
Are you using Chrome or a Chromium based browser? I use OperaGX and I tend to experience the same problems every so often. It comes w/o warning and goes away after a day or 2.
The crowd is not feeling that.
Heh, just completely not the audience for this. Reminded me of something I might see in Borat.
If he’s reading this news I’d bet that Cohen is thinking the same thing. That would be hilarious.
I don’t think he’s rapping about a song. White rapper in fur coat = D:
Yeah… gotta know your audience and Eminem fans those were not.
The crowd is not feeling that.
There is no way I’m watching that shit.
I also would not want my music associated with a climate-change-denying eugenicist who likes to gobble up 45’s balls and butthole.
“I know what these right-wing, ‘Murrican, xenophobic, illiterate, cousin-fucking, lardass MAGA CHUDs want in a President: a scrawny, over-educcated brown dweeb with a name they can’t pronounce!”
You talking about Kid Rock?
Eminem’s used to this, the right-wing National Party in New Zealand used the same song in a campaign ad and he successfully sued them for $600k
Interrogate any of Vivek’s ‘policies’ and he just laughs it off like a condescending jackass. Very much from the school of Tucker Carlson, and he’s more suited for hosting a show on Fox News (similarly punchable face, and everything) than someone who should have control over the nuclear codes. He’s a side show.
As for Em, I appreciate his not wanting to be associated with the guy, but asking his label to issue cease and desists? He’s turning into the types of stodgy old people he used to rip when he was younger!
As a Brown Republican, I think that he knows that, and he’s only doing a presidential run for that specific audition.
Ridiculous. Everyone knows the only way to properly karaoke Lose Yourself is by finishing every couplet with “mom’s spaghetti”
Ramaswamy is an absolute piece of shit and needs to be kicked in the dick as many times as possible.
If one hates and wishes to torture oneself, a video of Ramaswamy doing karaoke to the track can be found below. Thank you for yet another opportunity to deny contributions to a crappy Youtube channel’s metrics. You’ve had douche with a guitar, now douche with a karaoke machine.. just need one more for the hat trick this week.
I mean, he’s not wrong about possible Saudi involvement in 9/11. A lot of truthers are out of their heads, and this guy is clearly saying anything he thinks will gin up attention for his campaign, but that’s something that could very well be looked into a little more thoroughly. There are plenty of questions the 9/11 commission didn’t touch on, and people are fallible, but if anyone ever brings up anything that even slightly questions their report, or examines things they didn’t examine at the time gets painted with the “crazy truther” brush and gets ignored or insulted.
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Ah yes, rap music, the perfect way to appeal to old white bigots. Brilliant campaign move.