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He calls himself the "second most famous person" at the Republican National Convention.
He could be former President Donald Trump's biggest supporter.
He has a $40,000 blinged-out ring embellished with "Make America Great Again" and "MAGA" down the middle.
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On top of that, there's the wrapped cyber truck, Rolls Royce, billboards and even a "sold gold Trump face."
"Trump's a gangster," Kurt Janz, who is professionally known as Forgiato Blow, told Newsweek.
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Jantz is a self-proclaimed pioneer of the "Trumpist hip hop genre of MAGA rap." He goes by "Trump's Nephew" on social media, and even though the relation is not true, his alter ego is definitely making an impact.
He says his background matches closely matches Trump's. Both went to military boarding school. Neither does drugs. Both are "businessmen or money men."
The first time Jantz met Trump, the former president "gave me a lot of respect."
"I was very happy that he is who I thought he was," Jantz told Newsweek on Thursday from the RNC. "A lot of times I think these people are so they're this and that. Then I meet them in person and I'm like man I can't believe I've been looking up to you... Donald Trump was everything, plus more."
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Jantz, who was born and raised in South Florida, got into work through his friends, adopting their music. He went on to promote his friends who rapped over the years, and then Jantz started his career in 2013. He has collaborated with the likes of Rick Ross, French Montana and Kodak Black.
"I was pretty established in that lane," Jantz said. "Everybody was cool with me."
But he wanted to start "kicking down doors." In 2016, Jantz released his first pro-Trump song, "Silver Spoon." The song itself wasn't really about Trump but Jantz is seen wearing a MAGA hat in the video. In 2020, Jantz said he started to "really play attention to politics."
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"I'm a news rapper," Jantz, 39, told Newsweek. "I'm just giving it to them the way I rap it... I started to see how corrupted the game was."
The publicity hasn't always been the greatest either. He's "been banned everywhere on social media." His videos have been taken off of YouTube as well - all experiences Jantz said he didn't face when he was rapping about "flashy cars, jewelry and pretty girls."
He's made thousands of songs but they're "still battling me."
"They never bugged me about a song that was about shooting guns and women in clubs, but as soon as I say Trump's name, now it's banned. Now it's taken down," Jantz said.
Jantz acknowledged that a lot of his songs are time sensitive. His newest release, "Teflon Trump," discusses the shooting at Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"Shot heard around the world, all around the internet," the rap starts. "Camera shot a picture that's forever living in our heads."
Minutes into Trump's speech at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, loud popping noises were heard as people huddled for safety. Trump appeared to clutch his ear and fell to the ground. When he stood back up, surrounded by Secret Service agents, blood was seen running down his face.
"He's all in," Jantz told Newsweek. "There's no asking if he's all in, like Biden can't go somewhere because he has Covid. Donald Trump stands up with his ear bleeding and blood dripping down his face. He's all in... The bullet went off and Trump didn't run off stage like everybody else. He wanted to keep talking."
The shooting is officially being investigated as an attempted assassination. An armed person was seen standing outside of the 2024 Republican National Convention near the Fiserv Forum on Wednesday along with a poster of Thomas Crooks, the man that attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump over the weekend.
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Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire chief from Pennsylvania, was identified as the victim in the shooting incident at a rally for former President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Also injured in the mass shooting were 57-year-old David Dutch, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and 74-year-old James Copenhaver, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
Jantz has gone to every rally during Trump's campaign this election season except one - coincidentally - the Butler rally on Saturday.
His song and video "Trump Trump Baby" that was made with Amber Rose was played during the first day of the RNC this week, as a surprise even to Jantz.
"I don't need nothing," Jantz said. "It was cool. That might not have been Trump's call to play that song, but he was in there. He saw it."
The MAGA rapper's biggest goal this election is to get Trump back in office, he said.
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"I've had a lot of W's but I've got a lot of L," Jantz said. "I want four more years of Trump. I deserve it because I just got so constricted under Joe Biden."
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