--- title: Eminem Campaign Speech 2016 Music AUDIO Listen description: The rapper's new 8-minute rap track is a raw political song about Trump and police violence, among other hot topics. canonical: https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-19T18:51:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:46.545Z og:title: Eminem Goes After Donald Trump in New Song 'Campaign Speech' og:description: The rapper's new 8-minute rap touches on many political hot topics. og:url: https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Eminem Goes After Donald Trump in New Song 'Campaign Speech' twitter:description: The rapper's new 8-minute rap touches on many political hot topics. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Eminem Goes After Donald Trump in Raw New Song ‘Campaign Speech’  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 19, 2016 6:51 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 19, 2016 6:51 PM UTC It’s been three years since [rapper Eminem](http://time.com/4455612/eminem-drake-detroit-concert/?iid=sr-link7) dropped new music, but don’t count him out. On Wednesday, the [controversial wordsmith](http://time.com/3601472/eminem-shady-xv/?iid=sr-link8) released a minimalist eight-minute rap titled “Campaign Speech,” a steady flow of his [fast-paced, rabid rhymes](http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/10/11/quotes-eminem-finds-words-that-rhyme-with-orange/?iid=sr-link2). In it, he touches on everything from Donald Trump to police brutality, delivering searing lines about big names in the news like George Zimmerman and Casey Anthony. And this is just the start of a Marshall Mathers comeback, it seems: his accompanying tweet notes that he’s “working on an album.” The expletive-laden track finds Eminem spitting lines over a barely-there backing buzz—and as always, is typically [aggressive and seriously politically-charged.](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/15/eminems-new-rap-god-is-divine/?iid=sr-link5) > [](https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/788776034590199809) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/"},"headline":"Eminem Goes After Donald Trump in Raw New Song ‘Campaign Speech’","datePublished":"2016-10-19T18:51:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:46.545Z","description":"Eminem is weighing in on the 2016 Election","url":"https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/","name":"Eminem Goes After Donald Trump in Raw New Song ‘Campaign Speech’"}}]}] ```