Eminem’s ‘Kamikaze’ a rhymin’ rip on Don
Secret Service not a fan of rapper’s lyrics
If Eminem is coming for President Trump, the Secret Service is coming for Eminem.
The Detroit rapper, whose real name is Marshal Mathers, reignited his musical feud with Trump on the first track of his surprise album “Kamikaze,” which dropped early Friday. In the third verse of “The Ringer,” Eminem claims his 2017 freestyle for the BET Hip Hop Awards earned him a visit from the Secret Service.
“These verses are makin’ him a wee bit nervous/ And he’s too scared to answer me with words/ ‘Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered,” Eminem starts off on “The Storm.” “But I know a least he heard it.”
The song continues to say Trump — whom he dubbed “Agent Orange” — “sent the Secret Service/ To meet in person/ To see if I really think of hurtin’ him/ Or ask if I’m linked to to terrorists/ I said, ‘Only when it comes to ink and lyricists.”
The Secret Service in a statement said it “does not confirm or comment on the absence or existence of specific investigations.
“We can say, however, the Secret Service investigates all threats against the President.”
Comedienne Kathy Griffin, who gets a seemingly more positive shout-out in another “Kamikaze” track, similarly earned a visit from the Secret Service last year after a wildly controversial image that showed her holding a bloodied, severed effigy head of Trump. She appeared in Eminem’s “Real Slim Shady” music video nearly 20 years ago.
Eminem’s alleged Secret Service visit was apparently prompted by his scathing anti-Trump cypher, in which he called the President a “kamikaze that will probably cause a nuclear holocaust” — perhaps a foreshadow of his latest album with the same name.
The BET performance kicked off with the lyrics: “That’s an awfully hot coffee pot/ Should I drop it on Donald Trump? Probably not/ But that’s all I got til I come up with solid plot/ Got a plan now I gotta hatch it like a damn Apache with a tomahawk.”
Eminem also draws “a line in the sand,” urging those who support Trump to stop listening to his tracks.
“’Cause like him in politics, I’m usin’ all of his tricks/’Cause I’m throwin’ that piece of s--t against the wall ‘til it sticks,” he adds.
If the blistering lyrics did in fact catch the eye of the Secret Service, it wouldn’t be the first time. The agency also investigated Eminem following the leak of his song “We Are Americans” in 2003.
“F--k money, I don’t rap for dead presidents/I’d rather see the President dead/ It’s never been said, but I set precedents,” he rapped.
The word “Dead” was censored upon the song’s official release.
The 45-year-old Grammy winner has also previously taken aim at former President George W. Bush and First Daughter Ivanka Trump with fiery lyrics.
Written as a political protest song, “Mosh” was released ahead of the presidential election in 2004. In it, the rapper highlights his political differences with Bush, focusing particularly on his administration’s continued occupation of Iraq and the war on terror in the Middle East. It opens with children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
“Stomp, push shove, mush; f--k Bush,” he raps at the end of the second verse.
In “Framed” off last year’s “Revival” album, Eminem wonders, “But dog, how the f--k is Ivanka Trump in the trunk of my car?/Gotta get to the bottom of it to try to solve it/ Must go above and beyond,/ ‘cause it incumbent upon me.”
Eminem isn’t reserving his digs only for politicians on his new album — he also takes aim at fellow rappers Drake, Lil Pump, Lil Yachty, Lil Xan and Tyler the Creator as well as the media, Harvey Weinstein and award shows.