When fans become haters: how Elon Musk turned to Eminem despiser

Rap icon Eminem and former United States President Barack Obama shared a light-hearted moment at a rally for the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign ahead of the presidential elections at Slim Shady’s hometown Detroit and Elon Musk in not happy about it.

Barack Obama took the crowd by a surprise by rapping to Eminem’s magnum opus single “Lose Yourself.” During his speech, Obama, whose love for music, especially hip-hop and rap is well known through his popular self-curated playlists, recited the opening lines of the legendary track. “I don’t usually get nervous, but I was feeling some kinda way following Eminem. I thought Eminem was going to be performing, I was ready to jump out. Love me some Eminem.” said Obama after rapping few lines from the first verse.

It appears, Elon Musk, who is Donald Trump supporter, didn’t like the fact. The billionaire has alleged that Eminem attended the party thrown by music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was indicted last month on three criminal counts that allege he s-xually abused women and coerced them into drug-fueled s-x parties using threats and violence. “Yet another Diddy party participant,” Musk wrote on X on Tuesday in response to a post that alleged that Eminem rapped about “killing homosexuals with a chainsaw.” Of course, these words were nothing but a bull’s crap. Maybe Elon and the rest of the people who think so need to check out this article that I made couple of weeks ago. I’ve listed dozens of songs where Eminem is dissing Diddy for almost three decades. Unlike Elon, who hang out with Diddy few times.

Until politics become very important for Elon Musk, expressed his admiration to Eminem’s music many times in the past. Back in 2019, Elon Musk tweeted: “the color orange is named after fruit.” One of the users replied: “There’s also no word in English that rhymes with orange.” On that Elon replied: “Door hinge.” This is the reference to famous Eminem interview he did on 60 Minutes.

Back in 2002, Eminem released “Without Me,” single from The Eminem Show album. In the song, Eminem pokes the FCC (Federal Communications Commissions) over a $7,000 penalty they had imposed on a Colorado radio station for playing his another hit song “The Real Slim Shady” it deemed offensive. In 2022, Elon Musk quoted the same lyrics but inserting “SEC” in place for FCC, seeking to throw away his 2018 agreement with the regulator that requires the CEO to seek preapproval for his tweets. As Reuter reports, the CEO of Tesla likened himself to Eminem during a court filing, alleging that the SEC violated the First Amendment. “The SE won’t let me be or let me be me, so let me see; They tried to shut me down,” Elon said, quoting Eminem in the court files.

Later on Twitter, Musk compared himself to Eminem, saying: “I mean we are basically identical – a few differences maybe.”

I mean we’re basically identical – a few differences maybe …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2022

Back in 2017, when Elon was introducing Tesla Model 3 to the world, tweeted Lil Wayne and Eminem’s “Drop The World” song, saying he was playing it in the car.