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Nick Cannon is reflecting on his past feud with Eminem and says he'd do anything to defend his ex-wife, Mariah Carey.
The multi-hyphenate artist revisited the beef during the latest episode of On Par With Maury Povich, which aired Monday, November 9. Cannon had only been married to Carey for a year when Em dissed both of them in his 2009 song "Bagpipes From Baghdad." The "Wild'N Out" creator said he felt compelled to defend the mother of his twins at the time, even after the couple split in 2016.
“He disrespected my woman, man,” Cannon explained.
“You can’t come at my wife and don’t expect to get this work," he continued. "I think he and Mariah had a professional relationship, which he professed to be a personal relationship.”
“So that was way before me," he added. "So then by the time we got married, he had some harsh words because I guess he was still in his feelings. I couldn’t stand for that at the time. At the dignity of my woman, I had to fight for my relationship, my love.”
Eminem and Mariah Carey's beef began way before Cannon got into the picture. The two feuded in the early 2000's after Eminem claimed to have had a short-lived romantic relationship with the singer. He mentioned her in a couple of songs like "Superman," but Carey denied the relationship happened and allegedly addressed it in her 2002 song, "Clown." Eminem reignited the beef in 2006 when he rapped, "Your mind’s on us like mine’s on Mariah/And y’all are just like her, you’re all f**king liars.”
Once Cannon and Carey got together, the Drumline actor responded with a since-deleted blog post. He responded to Eminem again in December 2019 with a series of diss tracks aimed at Eminem, including “The Invitation,” “Pray for Him,” and “Canceled: Invitation.”
Watch the entire conversation below.