Eminem attacks NRA in awards show performance: 'They control the puppet'

[Hermit-The-Prog]

At the iHeartRadio Music awards, the rapper castigated gun lobbyists, saying ‘they love their guns more than our children’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas Mon 12 Mar 2018

Eminem has continued his run of politically charged performances with an attack on the National Rifle Association during a set at the iHeartRadio Music awards in Inglewood, California.

Adding a new freestyle verse to his song Nowhere Fast, he rapped:

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

They’re responsible for this whole production

They hold the strings, they control the puppet

And they threaten to take 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

The performance was introduced by Alex Moscou, one of the survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead. He said he and his fellow students were “tired of hearing politicians sending their thoughts and prayers to us, and doing nothing to make the necessary changes to prevent this tragedy from happening again”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/12/eminem-nra-iheartradio-music-awards-rap-protest

[Skittles]

1. THANK YOU EMINEM