Eminem told 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping to his tunes on the campaign trail. The rapper reached out to the music licenser BMI and asked that the Ramaswamy campaign's license to use his music be revoked. In a letter dated August 23, a rep for BMI informed the campaign's lawyer that the label had “received communications from Marshall B. Mathers, III, professionally known as Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign's use of Eminem's musical compositions (the "Eminem Works") and requesting that BMI remove all Eminem Works from the Agreement.” The correspondence goes on to say that “this letter serves as notice that the Eminem Works are excluded from the Agreement effective immediately.” Ramaswamy rapped Eminem's Lose Yourself 11 days before the letter was sent, at the Iowa State Fair, entertaining an early morning crowd gathered to hear him speak alongside Iowa's Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.