Eminem: I Wish Nick and Mariah "the Best"

Us Magazine - May 18, 2009 3:29 PM PDT
Story photo: Eminem: I Wish Nick and Mariah From left: Brad Barket/Getty Images; Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesUs Magazine
Eminem doesn't want to fight anymore -- at least not with Nick Cannon.

After Cannon slammed the rapper for dishing about his wife, Mariah Carey on his new song, "Bagpipes From Baghdad," Eminem said it's all one big misunderstanding.

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"With the song, I kind of spazzed out on that record, but I guess I spazzed out on every record," Eminem said in an interview with BBC Radio on Saturday. "There's a line on there that was a little harsh. It's a harsh line... But it's like this, the way I look at it. I had no idea he was going to take it like he took it. I had no idea Nick Cannon was going to start wildin' out on me."

The song includes lyrics like "I want another crack at ya," "Nick Cannon better back...up. I'm not playing, I want her back, you punk" and "Nick Cannon, you pr---, I wish you luck with that f---in' whore."

In response, Cannon posted a blog that called the song "an act of racist bigotry."

"I felt sorry for him because he must really be stuck in the past," Cannon wrote of Eminem, who has said he dated Carey for six months in 2001. "Not only has his music not evolved, but also homeboy is still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn't let him get to second base from eight years ago.

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Eminem admitted that he hadn't read Cannon's blog post.

"I heard about some of the things he was saying," Eminem said. "I didn't read his blog or anything. But it is what it is. He's supposed to defend his wife, and I expected him to do that. But at the end of the day, it's a line I said. It's a song. What I actually meant to say is, I wish them the best. That's what I meant to say. That's the whole message of the record."

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Does he think he could beat Cannon -- who celebrated his one-year anniversary of marriage to Carey in Las Vegas earlier this month -- in a rap battle?

"I didn't plan on taking it to that level," Eminem said. "Hopefully, it doesn't. But it is what it is."



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  • Rachael
    hanaha who?
    report abuseposted July 16, 2009 7:27 PM PDT
  • Rachael
    IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE EMINEM IS JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE Mariah Carey is Nick Cannons wife.
    report abuseposted July 16, 2009 4:00 PM PDT
  • Perrin
    Hannah Shut up you dont know what you talking about... :(
    report abuseposted July 14, 2009 11:43 AM PDT
  • Hannah
    cannon just used this for more publicity cos mariah is a dying star...thats y she married him and now the public is bored with that so he needed a new way to get his name out there and em wasnt gonna play that game. nicks just sad cos hes never gonna b half the star em was b4 he was famous!!
    report abuseposted June 15, 2009 3:30 PM PDT
  • Hannah
    cannon just used this for more publicity cos mariah is a dying star...thats y she married him and now the public is bored with that so he needed a new way to get his name out there and em wasnt gonna play that game. nicks just sad cos hes never gonna b half the star em was b4 he was famous!!
    report abuseposted June 15, 2009 3:29 PM PDT
  • Gabe
    ITS JUST A SONG...NO BIG DEAL! Dont underestimate the power of music or song as it has powerful influence over our youth. How do you think your parents would have turned out if they grew up listening to this music when they were children and young adults? I like rap just as much as the next person but, its just all of the hatin and angry music is getting old.
    report abuseposted June 2, 2009 3:20 PM PDT
  • Gabe
    ITS JUST A SONG...NO BIG DEAL! Dont underestimate the power of music or song as it has powerful influence over our youth. How do you think your parents would have turned out if they grew up listening to this music when they were children and young adults? I like rap just as much as the next person but, its just all of the hatin and angry music is getting old.
    report abuseposted June 2, 2009 3:20 PM PDT
  • Gabe
    Does his music reflect an artist that has evolved or is it the same old %@!*# diced up and served on a different platter? His music has not evolved he's still hatin on people. This seems to be the only way for him to make an album and he has plenty of people to buy it up and praise him. That being said, I suppose he has no reason to evolve..give the people what they want. ..RIGHT!
    report abuseposted June 2, 2009 3:12 PM PDT
  • Albert
    Eminem hasn't got the brains of a goat......nor guts. Oh yeah, or the talent.
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 2:26 PM PDT
  • QUEEN
    TELL DAT FOO NICK CANNON TO LIVE HIS LIFE DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN DA HYPE. HE NEED TO BE THANKIN EMINEM FOR EVEN MENTIONING HIS NAME BECAUSE I ALMOST FORGOT THAT NICK CANNON EVEN EXISTED. NICK CANNON SUCKS AS A RAPPER SO HE NEED THA SPOT LIGHT RIGHT NOW. SO DAT FOO OWE EM AN APOLOGY FOR MAKIN HIM FAMOUS AGAIN... 4RM DA QUEEN...A MILLI
    report abuseposted May 19, 2009 12:55 PM PDT
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