‘Many Men’ producer hits out Donald Trump over song use
The producer of 50 Cent’s iconic ‘Many Men’ has shared his frustrations with the song being used in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The track from Fifty’s 2003 debut, Get Rich Or Die Tryin’, recently went viral after a cartoon was made showing the former president rapping to the beat about his attempted assassination.
The musician behind the track, Darrell ‘Digga’ Branch, isn’t keen on the song being associated with Trump and, in an interview with hip-hop media outlet TMZ, admitted that he found the whole situation rather unsavoury as he is a fierce critic of the politician.
Speaking to TMZ about the assassination attempt, Branch remarked, “At first, when I seen the incident happen, I thought it was something staged that Trump was doing.” Revealing that, at first, he thought it was staged, Branch disclosed that when social media began to go crazy, he started seeing the spoofs.
Recalling his first reactions, Branch told TMZ, “I thought he was up to his old tricks. But it seemed like an hour, and social media just started working. I started getting notifications like crazy. Everybody started getting creative.”
He continued: “Part of me can see why people are connecting it to the situation. But the other side of me is like, ‘How did this even happen?’ I’m not feeling dude at all. I’m not voting for him. People that know me and are close to me know that I go in hard on him every chance I get.
Branch is understandably uncomfortable with this as a critic of Trump, but with an AI-generated voice of the former president rapping over the beat circulating, he finds it an undeniably ironic situation. Explaining this, he added, “So, to have that situation happen like that and then now all of the sudden, the irony of my song being connected to this is just crazy.”
Trump was fired at several times while speaking at a large rally in the state of Pennsylvania earlier this month. The only bullet to hit him was one that luckily only grazed his ear. He then wore a bandage over it while speaking at the Republican National Convention just days later.
This is not the first time a musician has shown disapproval concerning the use of their song in politics. During the Republican presidential primaries, Eminem was extremely angry that presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy was using his 2002 track ‘Lose Yourself’ at his rallies.