Barack Obama joins Eminem on stage and raps along to his 00s hit

Barack Obama showed off his rap skills after being introduced by Eminem at a rally in Detroit, by spitting some bars from one of the rapper’s biggest hits.

The platinum-selling artist and former US president shared a stage on Tuesday as they appeared at a Kamala Harris rally in the crucial swing state of Michigan.

After being introduced by Eminem, Obama then took to the stage, joking that he was ‘feeling some kind of way following Eminem’ before adding that he was ‘nervous’ about speaking. He then smoothly transitioned into the opening verse from Eminem’s 2002 single ‘Lose Yourself.’

‘I have done a lot of rallies, so I don’t usually get nervous. But I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem,’ Obama said. ‘I noticed, my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, vomit on my sweater already, Mom’s spaghetti.’

As the crowd roared with applause, he continued to flow: ‘He’s nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready/To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting…’

He finished the performance by singing the song’s famous intro riff and saying ‘I love me some Eminem,’ before joking that he might ‘pop out’ on stage if the rapper ended up performing.

Eminem’s not the only Detroit rapper to endorse Kamala Harris this week either, as the Democratic nominee also secured the all-important Juggalo vote after getting the seal of approval from Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse.

In an interview with the Daily Show’s Troy Iwata, the clown-based rapper explained why he prefers the Democrats to Republicans, and said: ‘My mom said the Democrats are saying less taxes on the poor, more taxes on the rich.’

When asked about the taxes he pays, he enthusiastically claimed that he pays ‘up the f***ing anus, and I’m happy about it. I pay double what they ask.’

After saying ‘f*** no’ to Trump’s mass deportation policies, Violent J said he wants Kamala to win ‘because she’s a Democrat and I love my mom’.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, has accused the Labour Party of ‘blatant foreign interference’ in the US election after it was revealed that party staffers had been sent to the US to campaign for Kamala Harris in crucial swing states such as Michigan.

The Republican nominee filed a complaint against the ‘far-left’ party for helping spread ‘dangerously liberal policies’ in the run-up to the election.

It comes following a now-deleted LinkedIn post by Sofia Patel, Labour’s head of operations, in which she announced plans to send around 100 activists to swing states in the US to campaign for Harris.

Trump also filed a complaint to the independent Federal Election Commission alleging ‘illegal foreign campaign contributions and interference’ from the Labour Party, citing the LinkedIn post in which the party suggested they would ‘sort out housing’ for activists.

Under US electoral law, foreign volunteers are forbidden to spend more than $1,000 (£770) helping candidates, and Trump’s lawyers claim the offer to pay for accommodation counts as interference from a foreign party and has demanded an ‘immediate investigation’ into the claim.

‘Those searching for foreign interference in our elections need to look no further than [the] LinkedIn post,’ said the letter from Trump campaign lawyer Gary Lawkowski. ‘The interference is occurring in plain sight.’

But Keir Starmer has insisted the volunteers would only be travelling in a ‘personal capacity’ rather than as part of an official Labour contingency.

‘The Labour Party has volunteers, who have gone over pretty much every election,’ Starmer told reporters on his 28-hour flight for the annual Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Samoa. 

‘They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers, they’re staying, I think, with other volunteers over there. That’s what they’ve done in previous elections, that’s what they’re doing in this election and that’s really straightforward.’

Starmer also insisted he had ‘established a good relationship’ with Trump after having dinner with him during a recent trip to New York which would not be jeopardised by the claim.

‘We had a good constructive discussion and, of course as prime minister of the United Kingdom I will work with whoever the American people return as their President in their elections, which are very close now.’

Starmer has never met Kamala Harris, but has met with President Biden on a number of occasions since becoming prime minister in July.

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