Eminem Goes Nuclear on Trump At The BET Hip Hop Awards
The famous rapper Eminem delivered the video for “The Storm,” a four-and-a-half-minute freestyle, at the BET Hip Hop Awards. He wears a hoodie and scruff, pacing about theatrically in a parking lot and surrounded by an entourage of black men in the clip. Cyphers, in which opponents stand in a circle and trade verses, are usually peacocking competitions; here, his adversary is not physically present. The rapper stalls for a bit, wondering how he should start. “That’s an awfully hot coffee pot / Should I drop it on Donald Trump? Probably not. But that’s all I got ’til I come up with a solid plot.” Then he falls down what seems to be a stream of consciousness involving Trump’s recent scandals: “Instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada / All these horrible tragedies and he’s bored and would rather / cause a Twitter storm with the Packers.” He alights on Trump’s habitual bigotry, calling a him “ninety-four-year-old racist grandpa” and mocking his proposed ban on immigrants. ...