Nick Cannon had to step in when Eminem continued referencing his then-wife Mariah Carey in songs.
The Wild’n Out host was a guest on the Monday (Nov. 9) episode of On Par with Maury Povich, and addressed his short-lived feud with the rap legend. The battle was on wax after Eminem insulted Carey and Cannon on his 2009 songs “The Warning” and “Bagpipes From Baghdad.”
“He disrespected my woman, man. You can't come at my wife and don't expect to get this work,” Cannon said around the eight-minute mark of the video below.
“I think he he and Mariah had a professional relationship, which he professed to be a personal relationship. And so that was way before me. So then by the time we got married, he had some some harsh words because I guess he was still in his feelings.”
Cannon added that he couldn’t “stand for that” and felt it necessary to “defend” his relationship.
While Carey would shade Em on her 2009 song “Obsessed,” along with the track’s accompanying music video, Cannon addressed the fifteen-time Grammy winner in a Tumblr post titled “How Cute,” according to Billboard.
The beef would be reignited ten years later after Cannon brought up the letter on an episode of T.I.’s podcast ExpidTIously, which caused Em to return fire on Fat Joe collaboration “Lord Above.” Cannon dropped three diss tracks in return, despite him and Carey divorcing in 2016. The former spouses share 15-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.
Em would land the final lyrical blow on “Canceled: Invitation,” a callback to Cannon’s “The Invitation,” although the comedian shared his willingness to continue the beef if the Detroit native still wanted smoke.
“It was a month of social commentary, but if you've ever heard me speak on this matter, I always give that dude his props as an icon in hip-hop. I think he knows better now. If he keeps talking about me, I'm gonna keep talking back,” Cannon told Billboard in 2020.
