Elon Musk Says He and Rapper Eminem are ‘Basically Identical’

In a court filing on Tuesday arguing that the tweet-regulating arrangement violates Musk’s first-amendment rights, the CEO’s lawyers referenced an unexpected source: the rapper Eminem.

“The [SEC] won’t let me be or let me be me so let me see / They tried to shut me down,” Musk’s lawyers said, quoting the 2002 Eminem song “Without Me” and replacing “FCC” with “SEC.”

“So long as Musk and Tesla use Musk’s Twitter account to disclose information to investors, the SEC may legitimately investigate matters relating to Tesla’s disclosure controls and procedures,” the regulator said in a filing this month.