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Since President Donald Trump emerged as a businessman and politician, he has been fascinated by hip-hop culture.
Rap music has named the billionaire CEO on dozens of opportunities for exaggerating its financial success. He is highly respected as a symbol of success, dating back as much as Utan Klan’s Lecon in his 1995 record “The Immortalised Scarfes,” he calls himself “Black Trump.”
But after the 2016 election, the message about Trump has shifted from accusations to a light corn, from gangsta rap artists like YG to lyrical rocks like Kendrick Lamar. That’s not to say that all hip-hop turned their backs on the president, especially when the dishonorable music mogul “Diddy” Combs was on the table.
Following a groundbreaking sex trafficking trial in a Manhattan court, Trump publicly debated the possibility of issuing a presidential pardon to a comb, who was convicted of engaging in prostitution in July. Despite repeated attempts at bail, the Grammy-winning rapper has been jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since his arrest on September 16, 2024.
In an August 1 interview on Newsmax, the president spoke about Combs’ potential pardon, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and former MP George Santos. When asked in person about the pardon by host Rob Finnerty, Trump continued to confirm his release, but said negative comments he made about him “makes more difficult.”
Let’s take a look at the biggest rap song that mentioned Trump.
Mac Miller’s “Donald Trump” and Rae Sremmurd’s up like Trump
One of Mac Miller’s first hit records, the 2011 platinum cellar track “Donald Trump,” discovered that Pittsburgh natives are rapping about wanting global domination like the real estate mogul.
But five years later, Miller distanced himself from Trump. With a notable appearance in “Night with Larry Wilmore,” Miller said he hated the then presidential candidate.
“For a while, ‘Donald Trump is going to be president, hahaha!’ And I think it’s really important that when he gets closer as much as I say, everyone doesn’t accept this as a joke.
Another Trump-centric record claiming financial control, hip-hop duo Ray Thremurdo, released “Up Trump” in 2015. At the time, half of the group Swae Lee told the complex that Trump was “cool” and “rich.”
YG’s “FDT”
Eight months before Trump’s 2016 election victory, YG released “FDT,” one of the biggest records of warnings against Republican candidates.
A rhythmic takedown, YG goes straight in. “I thought I wouldn’t get sick, and one morning I woke up and heard this strange thing… I told him from the side of his neck,” Compton’s native begins with the intro.
“Me and all of my people, we always thought he was straightforwardly influenced… when it came to business. But now, we know what you really feel, so our feelings are our feelings,” he adds before entering the chorus.
He later raps that he hates Trump and if he wins the election, he “crashes us.”
Kendrick Lamar’s “Determination”, “Desires”, “Heart Part 4”
Early career records from Lamar in 2009’s “Decision” refer to Trump from a positive perspective. “I don’t want to be a dealer, I want to be Trump/Donald.”
However, since the president’s political rise, Lamar has explicitly mentioned Trump in much of his music.
Two months after Trump took office in 2017, Lamar released “The Heart Part 4.”
And on “Lust” on the 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning album “Damn,” Lamar once again mentions the election.
“We’re all awake and Trina is looking for a daily news/confirmation. I hope the election is not true. We’re all worried.
Contributors: Edward Segara, Jay Stahl, Kinsey Crowley, USA Today
