Prepare your eyes and ears, because Roseanne Barr, a.k.a “this Granny,” is “going bad” in a new pro-Donald Trump rap music video. (Hey, at least she warned us.)
In the bizarre video with Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald, titled “Daddy’s Home,” Barr dons blond box braids, gold chains, and sunglasses to gloat about the election with MacDonald. (The song features lyrics such as “We won, you mad, it’s done, too bad, boo hoo, so sad … you cry, we laugh” alongside MAGA iconography.)
Barr then gets her own verse, rapping, “They try to cancel me and say I’m a racist. I got a mean hook, they can’t get me with that jam. Trying to take away my right to go and say this. Well, listen up, cuz this Granny’s going bad.”
She appears to take a dig at her former show Roseanne or its spinoff The Conners, by then adding, “Why they trying to turn Becky into Dan?” (Both of which are characters in the franchise.) Then Barr attempts to start beef with a real rapper, by saying, “Screw Eminem, I’m Roseanne.” She also flips off the camera and at one point shakes her butt at it.
As for her grievance about being canceled, Barr is likely referring to her briefly rebooted show, Roseanne, being canceled at ABC in 2018 hours after she made a racist tweet attacking former President Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr used Jarrett’s initials and wrote, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.”
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“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said at the time.
Roseanne Barr in 2018. AFP via Getty
Prior to ABC’s decision, Barr tried to do damage control by tweeting, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.” Within three weeks, the show was revived without Barr — whose character was killed off — in the spinoff The Conners.
In recent years, Barr, a vocal Trump supporter, has aligned herself with conservative figures and stirred controversy for bizarre remarks, including the claim that “nobody died in the Holocaust.” (Barr is Jewish.)
