Donald Trump might be one of the most hated men in hip hop culture, but it wasn't always that way. Before he was touting a racist agenda, Trump was a symbol of success. With a crap ton of money and an entrepreneurial spirit, it's no wonder why Donald Trump was the subject of tracks by Gucci Mane, Mac Miller and Rae Sremmurd.
And of course, while he used to be considered somewhat the pinnacle of success, more recently he's been clowned on by many of artists. The Game, YG, Nipsey Hussle, and Kendrick Lamar are just a few of the rappers who have taken jabs at the presidential candidate in recent times.
Whether it was good or bad, the Donald's name has come up multiple times over the course of rap history. Let's take a look at ten examples of when hip hop name-dropped Donald Trump.
"Country Grammar" by Nelly
"Now I'm knocking like Jehovah; let me in now, let me in now
Bill Gates, Donald Trump, let me in now
Spin now, I got money to lend my friends now
We in now, candy Benz, Kenwood and 10"s now
I win now, fucking lesbian twins now
Seeing now, through the pen I make my ends now"
Nelly's name-drop was definitely before Trump's politics made him one of the most-hated men in the hip hop community. Here he puts him on the same level as Bill Gates as he references their bread flow.
"Racks on Racks" by Lil Wayne
"Got a chopper with a drum, Split Swishers with my thumb
Get money like Donald Trump, Double barrel on that pump
This kush I got ain't no chump, Get stupid and get stomped
Two guns I call Kriss Kross, Kriss Kross'll make you jump"
On 2011's Sorry 4 The Wait, Lil Wayne compared his own money-getting to Donald Trump's. Trump is apparently worth four and a half billion USD.
"Ball" by T.I. featuring Lil Wayne
"Drink all muddy, flag all bloody
I’m killin’ these hoes like that nigga Ted Bundy
I’m a good looking rapper, I ain’t tryna stunt
I'ma fire my blunt like Donald Trump"
On his Lil Wayne-assisted cut "Ball," T.I. name drops serial killer Ted Bundy before using the name of our subject. "You're fired," was somewhat of a catchphrase from the Donald that he used on his show The Apprentice.
"Up Like Trump" by Rae Sremmurd
"Up like Donald Trump, chain swings like nunchucks
She gon' chew you up, twerk like she from Russia
Don't get me wile'd up, soldiers at a ten hut
Look what you done done, now you done fucked up"
Using Trump's name in the hook is taking a page out of Mac Miller's book, but it works. The Rae Sremmurd boys drop no less than ten "Trump"'s throughout the course of this Sonny Digital-produced banger. However, Slim Jimmy recently said in an interview, "I wish we would have never dropped it because I don’t f**k with Trump and I don’t think he should to be president."
"Donald Trump" by Gucci Mane featuring Young Thug
"Donald Trump
I made Forbes list this month!
Donald Trump
I made Forbes list this month!
Donald Trump
I made Forbes list this month!
Donald Trump
I made Forbes list this month!"
Nothing much else to say here. Gucci and Thugger got together and made a rather annoying track that repeatedly shouts out Donald Trump in the hook.
"Donald Trump" by Mac Miller
"Take over the world when I'm on my Donald Trump shit
Look at all this money, ain't that some shit"
Mac Miller wasn't even being mean to Donald Trump when he made this, but Trump threatened to sue him anyhow. That ain't nice. Later on, Mac would diss Donald on The Nightly Show. Check that out here for the LOLs.
"So Appalled" by Kanye West featuring CyHi The Prynce, RZA, Swizz Beatz, Pusha T & Jay Z
"I'm so appalled, Spalding ball
Balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all
Baby, you're fired, your girlfriend hired
But if you don't mind, I'ma keep you on call
We above the law, we don't give a fuck about y'all
I got dogs that'll chew a fucking hole through the wall"
"So Appalled" was a star-studded banger, and the opening rhymes from Kanye featured a slight murk to the Donald's hairline. Trump aside though this song went so hard...
"El Chapo" by The Game featuring Skrillex
"This is doomsday, I can have Guadalupe
Come through and knock Donald Trump out his toupee
Now look at his brains all on the sidewalk
And tuck the .38 and jump on my skywalker
And whew, I'm rollin'"
The Game is a pretty scary dude. He's big...physically. He doesn't like Donald Trump either, as he makes clear in his Skrillex collaboration "El Chapo."
"Black Friday" by Kendrick Lamar
"I’m the son of the pioneer that got you near the sun
Play with him, bitch you better off voting for Donald Trump
I’m yelling Mr. Kanye West for president
He probably let me get some head inside the residence
I’m in the White House going all out
Bumping College Dropout, God-bless Americans"
One of the more socio-political conscious rappers of the modern day goes by the name of Kendrick Lamar. When he released his Black Friday mini-project alongside J. Cole, he threw a jab at Donald Trump while putting up the big homie Kanye West.
"FDT" by YG & Nipsey Hussle
YG: "I'm ready to go right now, your racist ass did too much
I'm 'bout to turn Black Panther
Don't let Donald Trump win, that nigga cancer
He too rich, he ain't got the answers
He can't make decisions for this country, he gon' crash us
No, we can't be a slave for him
He got me appreciatin' Obama way more
Hey Donald, and everyone that follows
You gave us your reason to be President, but we hate yours"
Nipsey Hussle: "Nigga am I trippin'? Let me know
I thought all that Donald Trump bullshit was a joke
Know what they say when rich niggas go broke....
Look, Reagan sold coke, Obama sold hope
Donald Trump spent his trust fund money on the vote
I'm from a place where you prolly can't go
Speakin' for some people that you prolly ain't know
It's pressure built up and it's prolly gon' blow
And if we say go then they're prolly gon' go
You vote Trump then you're prolly on dope"
Hook: "Fuck Donald Trump..."
YG and Nipsey Hussle keep it real, and really explicit with their recent cut "FDT." They don't like a thing about the toupee, nor his anti-Mexican propaganda, and they make it very clear throughout the course of this west coast gangster cut.