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Eminem Takes on Trump at Hip Hop Awards_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Oct 17, 2017 2:14 PM UTC Eminem Takes on Trump at Hip Hop Awards by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Oct 17, 2017 2:14 PM UTC [Eminem’s anti-Trump rap music video](http://time.com/4977535/eminem-trump-freestyle-rap-lyrics/) is enjoying a second life as a funny meme. Last week, the rapper unleashed a fiery verse that became an instant hit at the [BET Hip-Hop Awards](http://time.com/4977218/eminem-freestyle-trump-bet-hip-hop-awards/) earning high praise, staunch criticism and a response from _Saturday Night Live’s_ President Trump character. In the politically charged diss, he hammers [Trump](http://time.com/4978126/trump-eminem-endorsement/) for the government response to devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, and the violence in Charlottesville, but now the internet has a much more humorous take on one clip. [Eminem’s](http://time.com/4978179/daisy-ridley-eminem/) video opens on a parking garage where Eminem pauses, wondering how to start. “It’s the calm before the storm right here. Wait, how was I gonna start this off? I forgot,” Eminem began the four-minute clip. Marshall Mathers was musing about his blistering freestyle rap. He was not deciding what to order at a restaurant or a bunch of other imaginative captions the internet ran with. Come up with a relatable situation that everyone needs a minute to think about, and that’s how you know you’re getting the maximum potential out of this moment. The results are highly amusing: > [](https://twitter.com/RodriguezDaGod/status/919719920614674432) It took off from there. > [](https://twitter.com/jaboukie/status/920033933311451137) > [](https://twitter.com/NotAgainBen/status/920031307685605376) > [](https://twitter.com/s%5Fphia%5F/status/919770159421755393) > [](https://twitter.com/LeKingJames23/status/919747937143472130) Watch the full video below. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:05] Just to come before the storm right here, Wait, [00:11] how was that gonna start this? I forgot. Yeah. [00:19] That's an awfully hot coffee pot, should I drop it on Donald [00:22] Trump? Probably not. But that's all I got until I come up with [00:26] a solid [ BLEEP ]. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:32] Gotta plan and now I gotta hatch it. Like a damn Apache [00:35] with a tomahawk. I'm a walk inside a mosque on Ramadan [00:39] and say a prayer that every time. Talks! [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:46] She gets a map, argh! I'm a stop. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But [00:53] we better give Obama props Cuz what we got in office [00:56] now's a kamikaze that'll probably cause a nuclear [01:00] holocaust. And while the drama pops, and he waits for **** [01:03] to quiet down, he'll just gas his plane up and fly around [01:07] until the bombing stops. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [01:13] Intensity's heightened, Tensions are rising. Trump, when [01:17] it comes to giving a ****, you are as stingy as i am. Except [01:21] when it come to having the balls to go against me, you hide [01:24] them. Because you don't got the **** nuts, like [01:28] an empty asylum. Racism [01:33] is the only thing he is fantastic for. Cuz that's [01:37] how he gets his rocks off, and he's orange. Yeah, [01:43] sick tan. That's why he wants us to disband, cuz he can not [01:47] withstand the fact we're not afraid of Trump. Walking on [01:49] egg shells, I came to stomp. That's why he keeps [01:53] screaming drain the swamp, cuz he's in quicksand. [01:55] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [01:59] It's like we take a step forwards then backwards but this is [02:02] his form of destruction. Plus he gets an enormous reaction [02:07] when he attacks the NFL. So we focus on that, instead of [02:10] talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada. All these [02:13] horrible tragedies and his [ INAUDIBLE ] would rather [02:22] cause a Twitter storm with the Packers [02:34] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ MUSIC ] Tiki torches in hand for the [02:41] soldier that's black. And comes home from Iraq and is still [02:44] told to go back to Africa. Fork and a dagger in this racist [02:48] 94- year- old grandpa who keeps ignoring our past [02:52] historical, deplorable factors. Now if you're a black athlete, [02:57] you're a spoiled little brat for trying to use your platform or [03:00] your stature To try give those a voice who don't have one. [03:04] He says you're spitting in the faces of vets who fought for [03:06] us, you bastards. Unless [03:11] you're a POW who's tortured and battered cause to him [03:14] you're zeros cause he don't like his war heros captured. [03:19] That's not disrespecting the military. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [03:26] That. This is for Colin, ball up a fist. We'll [03:30] keep that **** balled, like Donald the ****. He's gonna get [03:36] ride of all immigrants. He's gonna build that thing [03:40] up taller than this. Well, if he does bill it, I [03:45] hope it's rock solid with bricks, cause like him and politics, [03:49] I'm using all of his tricks, cause I'm throwing that piece of [03:53] **** against the wall till it sticks. And [04:00] any fan of mine. Who's a supporter of his. I'm [04:04] drawing in the sand a line. You're either for or against. [04:09] And, if you can't decide, who you like more in your split. On [04:13] who you should stand beside. I'll do it for you with this. [04:16] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The [04:21] rest of America stand up. 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