Rapper Eminem will introduce former President Barack Obama at Tuesday night’s Kamala Harris/Tim Walz rally in Detroit.
While there are no plans for the Grammy Award-winning singer to perform at the event, his presence signals yet another attempt by the Democrats to use star power to influence voters in battleground states like Michigan. CNN reported that Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, will speak briefly about the election before Obama takes the stage.
Eminem is no fan of Donald Trump. He endorsed the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket in 2020 and allowed his hit single “Lose Yourself” to be used in a campaign ad. In 2017, he bashed Trump during a pre-taped acceptance speech at the BET Hip Hop Awards.
“I will say this, he talks a good one,” he said of Trump at the time.
“And if you’re in his base … let’s say you’re going to the rallies or whatever, you watch him on TV, you hear him talking this s***, there’s part of me that understands, like, alright, he’s somehow still got them because he’s brainwashing them into thinking that something great is going to happen. Nothing’s happening. Nothing is happening. I don’t know, man. I get really flustered when I talk about it.”
He went on to create rap lyrics telling fans who supported Trump that he’d drawn “a line in the sand.”
“You’re either for or against/and if you can’t decide/who you like more and you’re split/on who you should stand beside/I’ll do it for you with this,” he sang in the song.
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Eminem said during a December 2017 interview with Vulture, “[Trump] makes my blood boil. I can’t even watch the news anymore because it makes me too stressed out.”
“All jokes aside, all punch lines aside, I’m trying to get a message out there about him,” the rapper continued. “I want our country to be great too, I want it to be the best it can be, but it’s not going to be that with him in charge.”
Before he ran for office, Trump and Eminem were on good terms. The Republican nominee appeared on the Eminem concert special “The Shady National Convention” on MTV ahead of the 2004 election, per The Daily Mail.
As of this week, Trump has had a slight lead in every battleground state, but the races are still extremely tight. In Michigan, the GOP is in the lead with (+0.9).
