{"id":2014722,"date":"2023-08-28T19:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eminem-tells-ramaswamy-to-stop-using-his-music\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:45:45","slug":"eminem-tells-ramaswamy-to-stop-using-his-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eminem-tells-ramaswamy-to-stop-using-his-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem warns Ramaswamy to cease using his music."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feminem-tells-ramaswamy-to-stop-using-his-music%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014722&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rapper Eminem Demands Vivek Ramaswamy to\u2062 Stop Using His Songs<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-co-hosts-of-the-view-flee-set-after-positive-covid-19-test\/\" title=\"2 co-hosts of The View flee set after positive COVID-19 test\">surprising turn<\/a> of\u200b events, rapper Eminem has taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-canvassers-rescind-their-votes-to-certify-wayne-county-michigan-results\/\" title=\"Republican Canvassers Rescind Their Votes to Certify Wayne County, Michigan, Results\">legal action<\/a> against Vivek Ramaswamy, urging him to \u2062cease using his songs for his\u200d campaign. Eminem&#8217;s team \u2062sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12453955\/Im-REAL-Slim-Shady-Eminem-sends-skinny-Vivek-Ramaswamy-cease-desist-letter-demanding-stop-rapping-music-campaign-trail.html\">letter<\/a> \u2062to\u200b revoke the \u2063license Ramaswamy&#8217;s \u2063campaign had obtained from music licenser BMI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Eminem \u2062Objects to \u2062the Use of &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221;<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Ramaswamy had performed \u2062Eminem&#8217;s iconic track &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; at the Iowa State fair earlier \u200dthis \u2062month.\u2063 However,\u200b on August 23, BMI informed Ramaswamy&#8217;s lawyer that\u2063 Eminem strongly objected to the use of \u200bhis musical compositions in the campaign. Eminem demanded that BMI &#8220;remove all\u200c Eminem Works from\u200b the Agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The letter stated, &#8220;This\u200c letter \u2063serves as \u200dnotice \u200cthat 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 \u200bdate\u200d forward \u2062to\u200c be a material breach of the Agreement for which\u2064 BMI reserves all rights \u2063and remedies with respect thereto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Ramaswamy&#8217;s Connection to &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221;<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Interestingly, Ramaswamy had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eminem-tells-ramaswamy-to-stop-using-his-music\/\" title=\"Eminem warns Ramaswamy to cease using his music.\">previously\u200c performed raps<\/a> under the stage name &#8220;Da Vek&#8221; during his college \u2062days, often\u2064 including renditions of &#8220;Lose\u200b Yourself.&#8221; \u200bHe even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/07\/26\/vivek-ramaswamy-eminem-rap-00108137\">performed<\/a> \u200dthe song at a karaoke bar during \u2062a vacation in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When \u2063asked about his connection to Eminem&#8217;s music, Ramaswamy shared, &#8220;I did not grow up in the circumstances he did. People having low expectations of you, that part speaks to me.&#8221; Ramaswamy&#8217;s upbringing was quite \u200cdifferent, with his father working as an engineer \u200cand patent attorney for General Electric, and his mother \u2062pursuing a career \u200bas a \u2063geriatric psychiatrist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This incident \u2064is not the \u2062first time an artist \u2062has objected to their music being used in a political\u200d campaign. In \u200b2000, Sting\u200c famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-lists\/stop-using-my-song-35-artists-who-fought-politicians-over-their-music-75611\/isaac-hayes-vs-bob-dole-28989\/\">asked<\/a> George W. Bush to\u200c stop\u2062 using his song &#8220;Brand New Day.&#8221; Sting&#8217;s\u2062 manager, Miles Copeland, expressed that it \u200cwas inappropriate \u200cfor Sting to take sides in the election as he was British and \u2062a \u200c&#8221;guest&#8221; in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2000\/09\/15\/music_40\/\">Salon<\/a>, Copeland stated, \u200c&#8221;It&#8217;s not a polite thing to do,&#8221; and mentioned that he would also advise the Gore\u2063 campaign, which had also used the song, to stop. However, it seems\u200d that conversation \u200cnever took \u2064place. Interestingly, \u2064Sting and Al Gore \u200dwere later spotted having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/guitarist-andy-summers-former-vice-president-al-gore-news-photo\/107360457\">brunch<\/a> \u2062together in \u20642009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Eminem demands Vivek Ramaswamy to cease using his songs. A letter was sent to revoke the license obtained by Ramaswamy&#8217;s campaign through BMI. Ramaswamy performed Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; at the Iowa State fair. On August 23, BMI informed Ramaswamy&#8217;s lawyer about Eminem&#8217;s objection to the usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2014723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}