On Saturday, Shapiro's Daily Wire reported that Shapiro's collaboration with rapper Tom MacDonald had hit the number-one spot on iTunes.

“We’re now #1 overall on iTunes, too,” Shapiro posted on X. “On the way, we knocked off, among others, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, and Taylor Swift. @IAMTOMMACDONALD and I have officially made hip-hop great again, as was always my lifelong dream.” 

"I just want to thank God, [Tom MacDonald], and my parents, who paid for 15 years of classical violin lessons so I could become the #1 rapper in America," he later followed up. 

He continued:

As a longtime devotee of rap, becoming a rapper was the natural next step in my career trajectory. So, when Tom asked if I wanted to collaborate on a song, I leapt at the chance. This was the moment I spent 20 years of classical violin training preparing for. For those who don’t appreciate my artistic stylings, all I can say is that they didn’t appreciate Bach properly in his own time, either.

MacDonald also weighed in:

“I like to do things nobody else can do... Not everybody can get Ben Shapiro on a track. For someone who had never recorded a rap song before, he got in the studio and nailed it. We’ve both criticized the status quo of hip-hop, so it made sense. There is a good intention at the heart of ‘Facts.’ There is light.”

Shapiro even received congratulations from the rapper Nicki Minaj, who herself has previously taken on the Democratic establishment over her refusal to take the COVID-19 vaccine and her opposition to the vaccine mandates implemented in blue states such as California and New York. 

"I just listened to it @benshapiro not bad," she wrote on the X platform. Congrats on #1. But it [definitely] sounds like Roman’s Revenge when the beat first came in…idk." 

I just listened to it @benshapiro not bad. Congrats on #1. But it def sounds like Roman’s Revenge when the beat first came in…idk

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) January 27, 2024

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Although the whole thing may seem like one big joke, the iTunes charts are indeed a serious business, and reaching the number one spot is something most aspiring artists could only dream of. And even though it is an obvious parody of Shapiro's debating style, the song is impressively catchy. 

What this proves is that when conservatives even dip their toes in the liberal entertainment industry they can often outperform the competition. Shapiro realizes this, which is why he and his partner Jeremy Boreing are going all out on expanding The Daily Wire's entertainment offerings.

Another perfect example of the potential influence that conservatives hold is the success of Alejandro Monteverde's "Sound of Freedom," which explores the prevalence of child sex trafficking in the U.S. and across the continent as a whole. 

While left-wing media critics ripped the film as Q-Anon-inspired drivel, audiences around the world were captivated by its message and made it into one of the most successful independent films in cinematic history, grossing over $250 million. 

Although the film was not explicitly political (even if the liberal media seem to think child sex trafficking is a "right-wing" issue), many of its cast and producers including Mel Gibson, Eduardo Verástegui, and Jim Caviezel are devout Christians with links to the conservative movement. Hence why Hollywood hated it. 

Despite his success with this song, the idea of Ben Shapiro embarking on a genuine rap career is probably not the recipe for winning the culture war. But with Hollywood's influence seemingly in decline, there is definitely an opportunity for conservatives to regain the upper hand and embrace the entertainment industry from which they have long been shunned.