Eminem performed an incendiary freestyle aimed at Donald Trump for the 2017 BET Awards.
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Donald Trump’s been president for roughly nine months, and it feels as if every day or so, some musician is speaking out against America’s 45th president in some way. Even before his term officially began, many of the music industry’s biggest stars made their feelings about Trump clear by publicly rejecting offers to perform at his inauguration. In the time since then, we’ve read strongly worded statements, heard a slew of protest songs and seen the rise of several compilation playlists intended to inspire resistance.

After all this time, the volume of dissent hasn’t diminished; if anything, it’s only becoming more hostile (see Eminem’s searing freestyle diss against Trump at the BET Awards). On that note, we’ve decided to round up the insults pop stars have been hurling at the commander-in-chief over the past 30 days or so. You know, the same time period in which Trump called NFL players who kneel during the national anthem “sons of bitches”; doubled down on waging a culture war; gotten into a war of words with the mayor of San Juan after Puerto Rico was devastated by a hurricane; and continued to antagonize North Korea, among other things.

In short, there’s been plenty to take issue with lately, and it doesn’t look like musicians are going to quiet down anytime soon. Here’s a list of some pop stars who have taken recent jabs at Trump.

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Lupe Fiasco


Lupe Fiasco performing in 2014

Late in September, Lupe Fiasco didn’t so much celebrate the five-year anniversary of his 2012 album, Food & Liquor 2, as use it as an occasion to lament the present state of things. The politically outspoken rapper released a new song, “Running From President,” in which he raps about the contemporary moment broadly and Trump specifically: “Trump on acid, didn’t mean to gas it/ Pulled up to the pump with his trunks on backwards.”

John Legend, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marc Anthony and more

When the president tweets, the pop world tweets back. In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Trump criticized San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz’s leadership: “Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort.”

The outcry from the music industry was swift. John Legend, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Marc Anthony were just a few of the artists who responded. John Legend declared Trump the frontrunner of “the shittiest president ever competition”; Miranda mused about whether the tweet had been published from the golf course (he also released a song to raise money for hurricane relief efforts); and Anthony straight-up told the president to “shut the Bleep up about [the] NFL. Do something about our people in need in #PuertoRico.”

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The last time the punk quartet LZ released music, former President Bill Clinton was in the White House. But the group returned in September with a cheeky new song titled “Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago,” in which it sings, “It’s not good, a riot in fact/ The whole friggin’ country club is under attack.”

The song satisfied a few needs for the band: L7 got some digs in at Trump and, as frontwoman Donita Sparks said in a statement, it got to stage a comeback with something not too heavy, sparing the group the “pressure or expectation of that ‘first track weightiness.’”

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On the day her hit single “Bodak Yellow” went No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, Cardi B sat down with Billboard and, naturally, the conversation veered toward Trump at one point. The interview was on the heels of Trump’s NFL comments, and Cardi said, “Why is our president so concerned about what football players [are] doing when the goddamn world is going in shambles? You got this man from North Korea that’s talking about he’s declaring war — which, I don’t know, declaring war on who? Don’t declare war on us. We don’t want that beef.”

Eminem raps as if it's not even hard. The Same way Lionel Messi plays football with ease.

Eminem raps as if it's not even hard. The Same way Lionel Messi plays football with ease.