On Thursday night, Eminem surprise-dropped his tenth album, appropriately titled Kamikaze. The fiery, tight rappety-rap project is a return to form, after last year's bland, bloated, poppy Revival. Best of all, Slim Shady is 45 and furious. This time, he talks trash and names names, firing shots at Tyler The Creator, Joe Budden, MGK, and of course, President Donald Trump.

Last year Em dropped The Storm, a scathing four-minute diss to America's lying, idiot president. It started off clunky, with that weird "awfully hot coffee pot" couplet. (What was that about?) But what followed was brutal: "From his endorsement of Bannon / Support for the Klansmen / Tiki torches in hand for the soldier that's black / And comes home from Iraq / And is still told to go back to Africa / Fork and a dagger in this racist 94-year-old grandpa." Savage.

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Eminem used to excoriate harmless pop artists like N'Sync; it was thrilling to see him aim his pen at the most powerful man in the world. In the most famous passage, he alienated half of his fanbase, telling Trump voters to stop supporting him.

"Any fan of mine who's a supporter of his / I'm drawing in the sand a line, you're either for or against / And if you can't decide who you like more and you're split / On who you should stand beside / I'll do it for you with this: F*ck you!" 

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On his new song The Ringer, Eminem says that he regrets making that 'line in the sand' ultimatum. But not because he lost album sales - because it was too abrasive. Marshall says he empathizes with Trump voters, who got swindled by a charismatic con man. It's not the first time that's happened in politics. And let's face it, if you're going to try to change a Trump supporter's mind, "F*ck you" is a bad place to start.

"That line in the sand, was it even worth it? / 'Cause the way I see people turning's / Makin' it seem worthless, it's startin' to defeat the purpose / I'm watchin' my fan base shrink to thirds...if I could go back, I'd at least reword it / And say I empathize with the people this evil serpent / Sold the dream to that he's deserted"

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On Twitter, President Trump has clapped back at countless critics - Jay-Z, Alec Baldwin, LeBron James, Arnold Schwarzenegger. But he never said a word about Eminem. Maybe that was smart; responding to Eminem's diss is the exact response that would annoy him the most. Or maybe he didn't hear the freestyle at all, due to his busy schedule of golfing and watching Fox and Friends.

However, a few bars later on The Ringer, Eminem says he knows Trump heard the diss, because he got a visit from the Secret Service.

"But I know at least [Trump has] heard it / 'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service / To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him / Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists / I said, 'Only when it comes to ink and lyricists.'"

If true, this wouldn't be the first time Secret Service agents questioned Eminem. In the 2003 track We As Americans, Eminem rapped, "I don’t rap for dead presidents / I’d rather see the president dead / It's never been said, but I set precedence." 'Apparently, that couplet spooked the White House.

Well, love him or hate him, Eminem is a wizard with words.

The Shady Cypher is back. Eminem is looking to make a full comeback in preparation for his November album release, and he's not afraid to shed some fans to get something off his chest. In a new freestyle, Eminem spit some vicious lines against the President of the United States. Now, the video has dropped at BET's Hip Hop Awards, and it's sure to dominate the news cycle and get a hilarious reaction from a flustered Trump. Some choice lines: "We better give Obama props 'cause what we got in office now is a kamikaze that will probably cause a nuclear holocaust while the drama pops, and he waits for s**t to quiet down, he'll just gas his plane up and fly around till the bombing stops." "Same sh*t that he tormented Hillary for and he slandered then does it more. From his endorsement of Bannon, support for the Klansman, tiki torches in hand for the solider that's black and comes home from Iraq and is still told to go back to Africa." You can watch the whole cypher here: [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/917922469775925248]] "That's why he keeps screaming, 'Drain the swamp,' cause he's in quicksand." "But this is his form of distraction, plus he gets an enormous reaction when he attacks the NFL, so we focus on that instead of talking Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada. All these horrible tragedies and he's bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers." "F**k that, this is for Colin, ball up a fist and keep that s**t balled like Donald the b***h." Kaepernick tweeted out his appreciation for Eminem's bars, and thanked him for his support for the protests ignited by the 49ers quarterback. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/917955545197314048]] Eminem ended the freestyle with a message of unity, paradoxically enough, around the military and the flag: "The rest of America stand up. We love our military and we love our country but we f***ing hate Trump" Many hip-hop personalities praised the track, with certainly far more to come. The hip hop media world will continue to heap praise upon this freestyle, and hype for Eminem's album release, allegedly dropping November 17th, will only rise. Please let it be good. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/TheCompanyMan/status/917990936319332352]] Now, how will Donald Trump respond? Feverishly writing and revising in his Twitter app, the man will have to hit hard. Here's a few potential responses: "Eminem has always been trash. Threatened his own mother. Unstable guy! Sad!" The tweet route is one potential response. The other route is for Trump to don some skinny jeans and a snapback, and go stand in a parking lot garage with a bunch of hype beasts, Steve Bannon in Supreme, Stephen Miller's goofy oval-head nodding in the background, Trump pacing as he spits some Presidential bars. And then... Kid Rock steps in for a verse. And then, when you think it's over... Jake Paul steps in for a verse. It'll be YouTube rap at its worst, and that's what we need right now in 2017 - President Trump to beef with Eminem and put out diss tracks on YouTube. I think it's time to descend all the way into trash, guys, it's time to pull out the brakes on this train.

As somebody who has written music about drugs, family problems, and violence against numerous demographics, Eminem is no stranger to controversy. However, in October of this year, he went a step further than he usually does, and performed a four-and-a-half-minute rap about Donald Trump. The song, which is called The Storm, tore into the current president and called him out for his provocation of a negative relationship with North Korea, his constant distractions from important issues, and his "support for the klansmen", saying "racism's the only thing he's fantastic for". He also put Trump on blast for his lavish lifestyle, including the lines: "He wants to lower our taxes/ Then who's gonna pay for his extravagant trips/ Back and forth with his fam to his golf resorts and his mansions?" [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/917922469775925248]] Now, Eminem - whose real name is Marshall Mathers - has released his ninth studio album, 'Revival', and a lot of the tracks follow the same political theme as The Storm. For many, the new songs will just be a nice addition to their Spotify playlist, but others are concerned that the message behind the album could land the 45-year-old rapper in hot water. One person who seems particularly worried about the response to Eminem's latest album is Coolio, the rapper behind Gangsta's Paradise. When interviewed by TMZ about how he thought Donald Trump would react to Eminem's new album, Coolio responded, "Who knows, man? Trump is a little bit… he’s a weirdo, so you know, he might do anything. He might have Eminem killed." The 54-year-old also noted that he wasn't sure whether Eminem's latest album would be as popular as his previous work, as music fans don't often want a political agenda heaped on them. He said: "People just want to party and have fun and bullshit. Nobody wants to hear anything that’s stimulating in thought. We’ve been conditioned like that for a long time, especially the youngsters, they don’t want anything that’s controversial because they don’t have time for that." However, he did add that there was a potential for change: "This generation, I think they ready for something. It’s just got to take a couple of people to come out and do it. They follow each other. "When one cat come out and do something, they do what he does. Someone’s gotta get a hit record with something controversial then everyone will start doing it." [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/BXQl48hhKl1/?hl=en&taken-by=coolio]] Eminem himself had some comments about his intent behind the album in a recent interview with Elton John, in which he explained that he wanted to open people's eyes to Donald Trump's actions. "Sh*t is going on that we want to make you aware of," he said. "We have a president who does not care about everybody in our country; he is not the president for all of us, he is the president for some of us. He knows what he's doing." Whether or not Coolio was being serious when he made the comments about Eminem being killed over Revival is not certain, but what is known for sure is that the rapper has already caused a great deal of outrage. Many people were unhappy that Mathers chose to tackle the subject of Trump's presidency at the BET awards, let alone release a whole album about the matter. But Eminem was defiant, and made it clear that he is passionate about improving the state of the USA. "As long as he's got his base, he does not give a fuck about anybody else in America," the rapper said. "But guess what? There's more of us than there are of them. I still feel like America is the greatest country to live in. This is my opinion. But we have issues that we need to work on and we need to do better."

It would be safe to say that, as music artists go, Eminem is pretty outspoken. The rapper, who has recently grown what is possibly the worst beard in the world, has long divided opinion due to his controversial and graphic lyrics. Whether it's his early releases, such as Kim or Stan, or his later works, like 3am, Slim Shady certainly knows how to cause a ruckus.

However, recent times have seen Eminem hone in on one target, and one target alone: the Trump family. It would seem that Slim's gun is firmly pointed at the president and his family and, if his latest track is anything to go by, Eminem has got plenty more in the locker.

Eminem's beef with Trump started back in February 2017, when he wrote a guest verse on Big Sean's song No Favours, calling Trump a b***h.

Then, he participated in the 2017 BET cypher, to which he contributed a verse called The Storm. In the verse, Eminem called out Trump for being more concerned with the NFL protests than helping hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. He also criticised the president's views on gun control.

"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 rapped.

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"And if you can’t decide who you like more and you’re split on who you should stand beside, I’ll do it for you with this: F**k you.

"The rest of America, stand up! We love our military, and we love our country… But we f****n’ hate Trump!"

After that, Slim appeared at the iHeart Radio Music Awards and slammed the president, the NRA and anti-gun-law advocates in the wake of the horrific Parkland shooting. Taking to the stage to perform the powerful verse, he said:

"Sometimes I don’t know what this world has come to. It’s blowing up.

"This whole country is going nuts, and the NRA is in our way.

"They’re responsible for the whole production

"They hold the strings, they control the puppet

"And they threaten to take away donor bucks

"So they know the government won’t do nothing

"And no one’s budging

"Gun owners clutching

"Their loaded weapons

"They love their guns more than our children."

Now, however, Marshall Mathers has taken his most controversial shot at the Trumps. In his new song, Framed, Eminem plays an escaped asylum patient who goes on a killing spree that he fails to remember when questioned by the police. However, it appears that one of the victims of his crime is Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter. He raps:

"Woke up, it was dawn, musta knew somethin’ was wrong. Think I’m becomin’ a monster ’cause of the drugs that I’m on. Donald Duck’s on, there’s a Tonka Truck in the yard, but dog, how the f**k is Ivanka Trump in the trunk of my car?

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"Gotta get to the bottom of it to try to solve it, must go above and beyond, ’cause it’s incumbent upon me… Plus I feel somewhat responsible for the dumb little blonde, girl that mother f**kin’ baton twirler that got dumped in the pond."

There's no doubt that this is Shady's most controversial remark regarding the president and his family thus far. And, given the nature of the remark and the intensity of Trump's fanbase, Eminem will no doubt be receiving a lot of hate online for his stance when it comes to the president.

Nine years ago, Eminem made a startling nine-word prediction about President Donald Trump that could finally be coming true.

In a fiery 2017 freestyle rap at the BET Hip Hop Awards, the award-winning rapper - whose full name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III - warned about the potential consequences of the 79-year-old's leadership.

He called Trump, who was the 45th president at the time, 'a kamikaze who will probably cause a nuclear holocaust,' and slammed his online habits, attack on NFL national anthem protests, and his lack of focus on important issues like Puerto Rico or gun reform.

"But this is his form of distraction, plus he gets an enormous reaction when he attacks the NFL," Eminem said.

"All these horrible tragedies and he's bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers."

The Not Afraid rapper also called Trump a 'racist 94-year-old grandpa' and compared his appearance to the Marvel Comics character 'The Thing.'

In addition to this, he shot down the president's plan for tax cuts that was revealed the year of his televised freestyle, questioning: "Then who's going to pay for his extravagant trips back and forth with his fam to his golf resorts and his mansions?"

Now, as Trump wages a war against Iran, the rapper's words seem even more relevant.

The president's military escalation in Iran has sparked fears that the conflict could escalate into something far more dangerous.

Trump Fabricates 'Lie' About Fallen Soldiers' Families in Iran Address

Amid the war, Trump came under fire for making false claims about what the families of fallen soldiers allegedly told him about the conflict.

In a recent address, he said the loved ones of the 13 service members killed in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military operation in Iran had begged him to 'finish the job'.

"Every single one of the people, their loved ones said 'Please, sir, please finish the job,' every one of them. And we are going to finish the job," he asserted in his speech.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also previously shared this sentiment after privately meeting with the families of six service members.

However, Charles Simmons, father of Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, who was killed in Iraq, publicly disputed the claim.

Simmons said he never encouraged the continuation of the war, telling NBC News: "I can’t speak for the other families.

"When he spoke to me, that was not something we talked about

Trump Threatens Escalation in Iran Conflict

In Trump's recent address to the nation, he vowed to 'hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next two to three weeks'.

"We will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we’ve made, I can say we are on track to complete all of America’s objectives shortly, very shortly," he said, adding that "regime change was never our goal" but that "regime change has occurred because of their original leader’s death".

He also threatened to target the country's electric power plants if no agreement is reached.

"If no deal is reached, we are going to hit every one of their electric generating plants very hard, and probably simultaneously," Trump warned, cited by Al Jazeera.

In response to the president's statements, Iran said it will continue its resistance until the US faces 'inevitable and permanent humiliation, disgrace, regret, and surrender'.

Military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari added that the enemy 'must pay the price for the aggression they initiated against the honourable and Muslim nation of Iran.'

"Expect more crushing and devastating strikes from us in continuation of the severe blows you have already received," he concluded, per CNN.

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