Unless you’re living under a rock the size of Taylor Swift ’s carbon footprint , you know that on Thursday, former president Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records connected to the cover-up of his sexual affair with porn star Stormy Daniels , thus making him a convicted felon . However, as of Friday morning, the number one trending topic on X is the rapper Eminem , who dropped his latest single, “Houdini,” at midnight on Friday . It’s unclear whether Eminem is aware that pop star Dua Lipa released a lead single with the same title just last November, but that’s neither here nor there.
In old school-Eminem fashion, the rapper made a couple offensive jokes and name-dropped several celebrities in his lyrics, in particularly joining in the Drake tradition of cruelly calling out Megan Thee Stallion . (Em also takes a shot at Dr. Dre , but that’s nothing new for him.
) “If I was to ask for Megan Thee Stallion if she would collab with me, would I really have a shot at a feat?” Eminem says, a barely-veiled pun reference to the “Cash Shit” rapper being shot by her ex-friend Tory Lanez during a 2020 dispute. Lanez was found guilty guilty of shooting hip-hop star Megan (real name Megan Pete) in her feet following an argument on July 12, 2020 in December of 2022 . Even given the salaciousness of the “Lose Yourself” rapper’s remarks, Eminem’s X trend victory over Trump is nevertheless curious, given that the Trump verdict is .