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Vivek Ramaswamy to ‘leave the rapping to the real Slim Shady’ after Eminem licenser’s cease-and-desist letter

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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy announced that he’ll no longer rap to Eminem’s music on the campaign trail after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the rapper’s music licenser.
Turns out he was just imitating.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has announced that he’ll no longer rap to Eminem’s music on the campaign trail after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the rapper’s music licenser. 
“Yeah, look, I think that I’ll respect his wishes, but I would just say, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?” Ramaswamy, 38, told MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday, referencing Eminem’s alter ego and his hit 2000 song. 
The Ramaswamy campaign team received the cease-and-desist letter from music licensing company BMI 11 days after the biotech entrepreneur spit a few bars of the artist formerly known as Marshall Mathers’ 2002 hit “Lose Yourself” at the Iowa State Fair, in response to Gov.

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