IF you thought America’s presidential election was getting dirty, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Uncle Sam’s public enemy No1 EMINEM has waded into the most fiercely fought poll for years to blast President GEORGE BUSH.
New song Mosh is a foul-mouthed tirade at Dubya and includes a reference to his dad, who was president in the early Nineties.
On the track Eminem brands Bush the real weapon of mass destruction and even taunts that he hopes his song reaches al-Qaeda terrorists. Eminem raps:
Maybe we can reach al-Qaeda through my speech, let the President answer on higher anarchy.
Strap him with an AK-47, let him go fight his own war, let him impress Daddy that way.
No more blood for oil.
So I guess it’s fair to assume that Slim Shady is no big fan of war in Iraq. His Bush-bashing rages on:
“Stomp, push, shove, mush, f*** Bush.
“They tell us no, we say yeah.
“They tell us stop, we say go.
“Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell, we gonna let him know.
“Stomp, push, shove, mush, f*** Bush. Until they bring our troops home. Come on.”
Later in the track Eminem sings about having mosh pits outside the presidential Oval Office in the White House — and he volunteers to be the voice of the people.
The track will be the second single released from Eminem’s new album Encore which is out next month.
But it has already surfaced on the Internet and is causing a huge stir.
It is Eminem’s revenge for Bush’s attack on him three years ago.
When Bush needed a scapegoat to blame for youth crime in the States — instead of pointing a finger at lax gun laws — he branded Eminem “the most dangerous threat to American children since polio”.
Bush’s Republican pals will now be sweating over Em’s rant.
Bush and Democrat challenger JOHN KERRY are neck-and-neck in the polls ahead of the November 2 election.
But Eminem is hugely popular and if his fans bother to get out of bed to vote, they could deal Bush a heavy blow.
Eminem has revealed he wrote passionate anti-war track Mosh because he doesn't want his younger brother Nate to have to fight in Iraq.
The rap star, who recently registered to vote for the first time, says he wants President Bush to lose next month's election because he fears for Nate's future.
Eminem, 32, tells Rolling Stone magazine: "People think their votes don't count, but people need to get out and vote.
"Whatever my decision is, I would like to see Bush out of office. I don't want to see my little brother get drafted - he just turned 18."
Eminem seems to have a problem with George W that goes beyong just making fun and jokes and goes beyond wanting to save his brother from war and all that. Eminem seems to REALLy hate the guy. I know lots of Americans don't like Mr Bush, but Em just seems to take it that step further. I don't know of anyone else who is this vocal in their hate. Is it just that because he's a rapper he can get away with saying this sort of thing and get publicity along the way? Or does he really hate him?
Michael Moore, the "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker who tried his hand at directing music videos with Rage Against the Machine, would certainly approve of Eminem's new clip, "Mosh," which has just hit the Internet.
A scathing indictment of President Bush and the war in Iraq (see "Em Changes Targets From Jacko To Bush On New Track 'Mosh' "), the animated video begins with the jarring image of a commercial airliner flying over a school and then exploding offscreen. The point of view then zooms into the school, where Eminem is reading a children's book to a class in a scene reminiscent of the minutes following the 9-11 attacks, when Bush was at a Florida elementary school reading to second graders. Eminem is holding his book upside down.
From there, "Mosh" moves to Eminem's apartment, where the walls are covered with articles critical of the Bush administration and its policies. Filled with anger, he puts on gloves and dons a hooded jacket. Clips of Em rapping the track are then interspersed with scenes of domestic problems facing the country, such as racial profiling (an animated Lloyd Banks is harassed by police) and poverty (an inner-city family receives an eviction notice as their TV set shows Bush promising tax cuts for the wealthy).
"Mosh" portrays Eminem as a powerful rebellious figure who just by using his voice and music has the ability to mobilize people who are fed up with the president. With his following uniformly dressed in dark hoodies, the group looks to be storming toward the White House but actually end up signing up to vote. At the same time in the song, Em talks about the people assembling to disarm what he calls the real weapon of mass destruction: George W. Bush.
A pro-vote message is tagged on at the end of the clip, directed by Ian Inaba of the Guerrilla News Network, which is hosting the video at GNN.tv. Eminem's Encore is due November 16.
Sounds like Eminem really has something to say about Geoge Bush. Can George Bush try and sue Eminem over this like Michael Jackson has done over Lose It?
Controversial rapper Eminem plans to vote for the first time ever this year - and he's determined to get American President George W Bush out of office.
Eminem recently made his feelings about Bush known when he blasted the Republican leader on his new track Mosh.
But while his stance is definitely anti-Bush, the Michigan native admits he's not yet settled on contender John Kerry.
He tells Rolling Stone magazine: "Bush is definitely not my homie. But I'm still undecided. Kerry has been known to say some things that's caught my attention, made a few statements I've liked, but I don't know. Whatever my decision, I would like to see Bush out of office.
"He's been painted to be this hero and he's got our troops over (in Iraq) dying for no reason. He's in a tailspin, running around like a dog chasing his tail. And we got young people over there dyin', kids in their teens, early '20s that should have futures ahead of them. And for what? It seems like Vietnam 2."
He adds: "People think their votes don't count, but people need to get out and vote."
Eminem re-edits 'Mosh' video to fit Bush re-election
The video for Eminem's anti-George Bush rap Mosh is getting extended life on MTV and other video outlets thanks to a re-edited version that downplays the time-specific aspect of the original's emphasis on getting young people to register to vote on Nov. 2. ADVERTISEMENT
The animated video, which includes a scene of a soldier returning home only to find he's been reassigned to Iraq, was created by director Ian Inaba of the New York-based Guerrilla News Network and quickly went to the top of MTV's Total Request Live chart after premiering Oct. 25. New York magazine called the video "the most important piece of mainstream dissent since the '60s."
The revised version shows Vice President Dick Cheney suffering a heart attack and concludes with Eminem leading a mob in rushing the Capitol during Bush's State of the Union speech, replacing the original ending in which the rapper simply took his followers to the voting booth.
Eminem believes he could have cost US presidential candidate John Kerry the 2004 election.
The outrageous rapper released his anti-Bush single 'Mosh' just before America voted in November 2004 in a bid to whip up resentment against the president.
However, the outspoken star believes he could have won Kerry enough vital votes to swing the election in his favour if he released the controversial track sooner.
He said: "I do have a bit of regret about that. We did our best to get it out as soon as we could. But do I wish it could have come out two weeks earlier? Yes."
The hip-hop star also admits he regrets releasing 'Just Lose It' as the first single off his critically acclaimed fourth album 'Encore' instead of 'Mosh' for the sake of promoting his record.
He said: "We were trying to get 'Just Lose It' out there first.
We didn't want to get 'Mosh' out there and come off too political. Eminem's never been too political. I've never been the militant-type political rapper."
Sounds like Eminem really has something to say about Geoge Bush. Can George Bush try and sue Eminem over this like Michael Jackson has done over Lose It?