The GOP presidential candidate's campaign received a cease-and-desist letter from music publishing giant BMI.
“To the American people’s chagrin, we will have to leave the rapping to the real slim shady,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the campaign, told NBC News on Monday night in a text message., the music publishing giant BMI told Ramaswamy’s campaign Wednesday that it “has received a communication from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions.
“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 said.Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Ramaswamy, 38, responded Monday on X: “Will The REAL Slim Shady Please Stand Up? He didn’t just say what I think he did, did he?”BMI did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Ramaswamy grabbed headlines when he rapped Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” on stage at the Iowa State Fair. An older video, from Ramaswamy’s senior year at Harvard University in 2006 when he rapped the 2002 hit under his stage name “Da Vek,” alsoRamaswamy isn’t the first presidential candidate to receive pushback from artists over use of their music.
to use"Rockin’ In The Free World" in his presidential candidacy announcement. Fifteen years earlier, George W. Bush was asked to stop playing the 1989 hit"I Won’t Back Down" by Tom Petty.
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