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    Eminem and 2017's Many-Splendored Protest Songs

    The rapper’s attempts to troll Donald Trump come at the end of a year of political pop, some of it as clunky as his.
    by Spencer Kornhaber Dec 26, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: Carlos Osorio / AP

    Eminem’s performance at the BET Hip-Hop Awards won the notice of plenty of rap fans and TV pundits, but it failed in its main goal: trolling Donald Trump. “I feel like he’s not paying attention to me,” Eminem said in an interview after he called Trump “a kamikaze that’ll probably cause a nuclear holocaust,” among other things, in the viral clip. “I was kind of waiting for him to say something, and for some reason, he didn’t say anything.”

    To another reporter, Eminem hinted that he had comeback lines prewritten in case the president had called him out in Twitter—which, in turn, led the president’s son to tweet, “WillTheRealLoserPleaseStandUp.”

    Eminem has been trolling celebrities for his entire career, but there is something new in his reasonable

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