--- title: BET Hiphop Awards 2017: Eminem Donald Trump Freestyle description: Eminem took aim at President Donald Trump in a freestyle released during the BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night. canonical: https://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-11T02:18:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:27.118Z og:title: Watch the Eminem Freestyle Everyone's Talking About og:description: "What we got in the White House now is a kamikaze" og:url: https://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61dece80ee11923a/6988e1688fd2ee880f359365/gettyimages-453054740.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5173 og:image:height: 2910 og:image:alt: 2014 Lollapalooza - Day 1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Eminem Freestyle Everyone's Talking About twitter:description: "What we got in the White House now is a kamikaze" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt61dece80ee11923a/6988e1688fd2ee880f359365/gettyimages-453054740.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'We’re Not Afraid of Trump.' 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Eminem performs at Samsung Galaxy stage during 2014 Lollapalooza in Chicago, Ill. on Aug, 1, 2014. Barry Brecheisen—WireImage by [Kevin Lui](https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Oct 11, 2017 2:18 AM UTC Eminem took aim at President Donald Trump in a freestyle released during the BET Hip Hop Awards Tuesday night. “It’s the calm before the storm right here,” the rapper begins in the four-minute clip, before a relentless cascade of criticism of the Trump administration. From the President’s Twitter feuds, to his spats with professional football players, to gun control, to what the rapper calls Trump’s “endorsement of clansmen,” Eminem hammered out a long list of complaints. “We better give Obama props, cuz what we got in the White House now is a kamikaze that’ll probably cause a nuclear holocaust,” he said in the track to a rapt audience in a parking garage. “Any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his, I’m drawing in the sand a line, you’re either for or against,” he continued. The new verse comes almost a year after his [first searing tune](http://time.com/4537074/eminem-on-trump-campaign-speech/) about Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, an expletive-laden track titled “Campaign Trail.” Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/"},"headline":"'We’re Not Afraid of Trump.' 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