See Barack Obama rap ‘Lose Yourself’ after Eminem introduces him in Detroit

Former President Barack Obama was really feeling the music and the moment Tuesday, after Eminem introduced him in the rapper’s hometown of Detroit.

“I have done a lot of rallies, so I don’t usually get nervous,” Obama told the excited crowd as he came out on stage at an event to support the candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris. “But I was feeling some kind of way following Eminem.”

And that’s when he began to quote a variation of the lyrics to the rapper’s 2002 hit “Lose Yourself.”

“Now I notice my palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy,” Obama yelled playfully in the video in the second slide above. “Vomit on my sweater already, mom’s spaghetti. I’m nervous, but on the surface, I look calm and ready. To drop bombs, but I keep on forgetting.”

He laughed at the crowd, who was loving the sight of a former United States president at the mic for more than a routine speech.

Obama said he had thought the Grammy-winning artist would be performing at the event.

“Love me some Eminem,” he said.

Obama is a known music fan and regularly releases lists of his favorite tracks.

But his Tuesday appearance was, of course, all about politics as presidential candidates Harris and former President Donald Trump and their surrogates travel the country in the final days ahead of the Nov. 5 election.

When it was Eminem’s turn at the podium, he said that he would be voting for Harris.

“I also think that people shouldn’t be afraid to express their opinions, and I don’t think anyone wants an America where people are worried about retribution of what people will do if you make your opinion known,” said the Trump critic. “I think Vice President Harris supports a future for this country where these freedoms and many others will be protected and upheld.”

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