Looking back, Nick Cannon admits that he didn’t handle the war against Eminem well. Even if it was all play pretend for Cannon, he still got carried away.
The TV personality in question explained his ulterior motives behind the series of diss tracks he shot at Eminem in late 2019. Nick Cannon reacted to Marshall’s lines on Fat Joe’s “Lord Above”:
I know me and Mariah didn’t end on a high note.
But that other dude’s whipped, that pussy got him neutered
Tryna tell him his chicks a nut ‘fore he got his jewels clipped
Almost got my caboose kicked/Fool, quit, you not gon’ do shit
I let her chop my balls off too before I lost to you, Nick.
Nick lurched forward, speed-firing three underbaked diss tracks where he went after Marshall’s kids, friends, his integrity and whatever else he could think to smear. Eminem only responded with a couple of sarcastic tweets addressing insinuations about his sexual orientation. Otherwise, he did not give any oxygen to this beef, and the one-sided squabble died out, leaving a couple of Cannon’s emotional interviews and an SNL skit to remember the event.
Now, Cannon feels comfortable enough to admit that it was staged to increase his popularity, but also, he really got into the mood trying to catch Marshall’s attention. He said in the interview with HipHopDX:
“I was a little overzealous,” Cannon says. “I was a little heavy-handed. I’m going to say a couple of things. First of all, I love Eminem as an artist. Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP — those are some of my favorite albums. But I think there was a lot that went on there. One, the whole goal was to get him to come on Wild ‘N Out and acknowledge it. So there was a mission to it because I was like, ‘Yo, that’d be the most amazing show ever.’ It was an invitation to come on the show. But also, a little bit, what was that, 2018 or something like that or whatever, I was playing the game. In 2008, I was really upset about what he had said about my wife at the time.
“And I was legitimately hot and wanted to fight and all. I was a different guy. So I was mad. And then I think a lot of that started to get stirred up again where the line of, I got so much to say, but I had to know this is entertainment. And there’s a mission here. But at the end of the day, I ain’t going to stand for no disrespect either. So in hindsight, I probably would’ve been a little bit more strategic and let maybe one or two of them linger. But to me, I showed up with a cannon to a knife fight.
He adds, “And he started it [laughs]. I don’t say anything. But I was like, ‘I got time today, Marshall.’”
Since Royce da 5’9 and Fat Joe managed to squash this beef, Nick Cannon keeps repeating that the beef was not real and that he has the deepest respect for Eminem. Does he think that it will help him get Eminem on any of his projects?
