Eminem has threatened to punch singer Lana Del Rey in the face twice, during a new freestyle rap video posted on Youtube. The video was released to promote the rapper’s new compilation, Shady XV, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of his ‘Shady Records’ label.

EminemEminem has taken aim at Lana Del Rey in his latest rap

In the video the 42 year old rapper also references Ray Rice, the NFL footballer who was suspended in September after a video emerged of him assaulting his fiancee.

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The full verse runs, “I may fight for gay rights, especially if they dyke is more of a knockout than Janay Rice/ Play nice? Bitch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/ Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.”

Previously Del Rey has citied Eminem as one of her biggest influences. She told 'R’n’B Junk' in 2012, “He really changed my life. I didn’t know music could be intelligent. He wasn’t just rhyming for rhyme’s sake. That made me think I could actually talk about the way things actually were. He’s a genius.”

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While Del Rey is yet to comment on the lyrics, rapper Azealia Banks has already jumped to the defence of the singer, telling her she should tell Eminem to "go back to his trailer park and eat his microwave hotpocket dinner and suck on his sisters tiddies,” via Twitter.

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But Del Rey isn't the first female pop star to fall victim to Marshall Mathers’ razor tongue. Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga had all been referenced by the rapper in the past. In less than flattering terms, of course.

Lana Del ReyLana Del Rey has become the latest of Eminem's targets