{"id":635592,"date":"2026-06-12T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:06:09","slug":"why-a-rap-song-by-eminem-is-special-for-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635592\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a rap song by Eminem is special for Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He said: \u201cFor me, politics, it\u2019s not about what I become in terms of a personal status, it\u2019s about what I can do. Right now, I believe I\u2019m the only person that\u2019s got sufficient public rapport, and the courage to take on the establishment and do what needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I\u2019m the right person. It may well be, in a couple of years\u2019 time or more, somebody else comes along who\u2019s better equipped. Right now, I do believe it\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Farage also spoke about his longstanding friendship with <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the US president, which goes back more than a decade to his first tilt at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what advice Mr Trump had given him should he become prime minister, Mr Farage said: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you, \u2018have fun doing it\u2019. And what an amazing thought that is for all of us in all of our lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause if you choose public office, you will necessarily \u2013 especially in a modern social media world \u2013 receive an awful lot of hate, as will your loved ones that are close to you around you. But \u2018have fun doing it\u2019 is his advice. It\u2019s very good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said: \u201cFor me, politics, it\u2019s not about what I become in terms of a personal status, it\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,50,633,229,70,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-news","tag-nigel-farage","tag-politics","tag-reform-uk","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}