While not churning out chart-adjacent hits, Emin is an executive at his father's company, and was formerly married to the daughter of Azerbaijan's long-serving president. He's not afraid to pull strings to help his pop career, and is one of the few artists able to boast a song "ft. Donald Trump," although you'll be sad to learn that the Donald merely says his "You're fired" catchphrase rather than breaking into verse.

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Emin met the future president when his father and Trump partnered to host the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow. Part of the deal was that Emin got to sing during the ceremony, much to the horror of NBC executives, who were apparently unimpressed by a quaver-voiced trust fund baby fighting a losing battle with his own backing track for what feels like seven hours. Despite that grueling performance, Emin still allegedly found time to offer Trump prostitutes while he was in Russia for the pageant. What a pro!

Emin would probably have remained an embarrassing footnote in a whole museum of embarrassing footnotes, but Trump is president now and the ripple effects have made everything stupid. Emin, you see, is the guy who arranged the infamous Trump Tower meeting where Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Don Jr. met with some shady Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. This became a major subject of the Mueller investigation, and Emin responded with all the grace and dignity you'd expect. He hired Donald, Stormy Daniels, and Ivanka Trump impersonators and made a music video parodying his role in the whole affair.