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"Mosh" Eminem 2004
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The least likely candidate to follow in Public Enemy's fight-the-power footsteps did exactly that in the final run-up to the 2004 election. Eminem unleashed the strongest anti-Iraq War song by any major artist, even taking up the "no more blood for oil" mantra. Calling Bush "this monster, this coward/that we have empowered," he then suggest we "strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war/Let him impress daddy that way." The video proved equally powerful as an animated Eminem gathered up an army, leading them to the ballot box "to disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction that we call our President."
