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If there’s one good thing about the Donald Trump campaign for president is that it’s gotten voices of our generation to speak up. Eminem joins the ranks of Zach De La Rocha and REM to pick up the mic to speak out against the Republican nominee.
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Eminem’s new song is appropriately titled, “Campaign Speech.” Spanning almost eight minutes, it’s a rap/rant stream of consciousness that cuts and pastes from headlines past (“Chuck Norris with a thesaurus”, Christopher Reeve), but mainly present Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, Colin Kaepernick and The Donald himself before punctuating it with a rhetorical “why am I such a dick?”
As fans scrambled to hear his first song of 2016, Marshall Mathers dropped on Twitter that there was a new Eminem album coming 2017.
Don’t worry I’m working on an album! Here’s something meanwhile. https://t.co/QX3cdpqFD2
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) October 19, 2016
