Nick Cannon has fired a new volley in his decade-long feud with Eminem, which (as Complex helpfully explains) goes back to when Eminem released “Bagpipes From Baghdad” in 2009—a track in which he went after Mariah Carey (who he had supposedly dated for a few months) and her then-new husband Cannon. Carey then put out an apparent response song, then Eminem did another one, then Cannon did one, he challenged Eminem to a fight, and then Cannon and Carey got divorced. At some point, Eminem supposedly apologized to Cannon for repeatedly insulting him, and this all seemed like distant memory in the history of popular culture.
Now, years later, Fat Joe’s new album Family Ties features a verse from Eminem on a track called “Lord Above” in which he calls out Cannon and Carey again with lines like:
I know me and Mariah didn’t end on a high note/But that other dude’s whipped, that pussy got him neutered/Tried to tell him this chick’s a nut job before 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 ’fore I lost to you, Nick.
Exhausted yet? Well, now (via Okayplayer) Cannon has released a follow-up diss track called “The Invitation” that features Suge Knight—who is in prison for a hit-and-run on the set of Straight Outta Compton—calling Eminem a “bitch” and sticking up for Cannon. Then he goes on to say stuff like this:
I don’t fuck with crack but the white boy he fuck with crack…/Call Kim, somebody get Hailie and that other kid you raising that ain’t even your baby/ Took a page out of Drake’s book this might get a Grammy/We going back to back til you respond on the family/Your baby mama killed you off a decade ago you still cryin about it bitch/Now who really the hoe?
This would all be more fun if it were about anyone but Eminem and Nick Cannon, but hey, at least we can enjoy this throwback rap feud to the simpler days of 2009. Remember 2009? It was alright.
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You’re middle aged!
i had no idea the former host of AGT was a rapper
I’m not ashamed to admit that I bumped this song a lot back when it came out like a decade ago. Being it samples off the Bill Biv Devoe song Poison was the main reason, but I still like the beat to it. The lyrics are pretty trash, though.
He’s not
Yeah that response ain’t exactly Adidon there, Nick.
Eunuch
Yeah so that was pretty pathetic
Morally dubious rich guy insults morally dubious rich guy.
Wasn’t that how Gawker got shut down?
And uses a convicted murderer (voluntary manslaughter) as a feature! It’s shitty morality all the way down
Where do you think they learned that shit? Huh? Pro-tip: it ain’t their daddies.
Where do you think they learned that shit? Huh? Pro-tip: it ain’t their daddies.
This would have been much more notable if it was 2005.
How do you try to maintain a feud when your current signature fashion choice is to look like Jambi from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse?
Jesus Christ they are both way too old for this shit.
Is there anything less exciting than following which rappers are mad at each other? Boooooorrrrring
Yep. That shit died after Game blasted Fiddy.
Hearing Nick Cannon Rap makes me wish he would stick to comedy instead, but then I hear his stand-up routine and wish he would go back to Rapping.
You made a typo in your comment. It says “back to Rapping” at the end, when it should say “into a woodchipper”.
Don’t you wish he would just fucking stop?
Well, it certainly does sound like it’s from when it should have came out (2009).
So… Nick Cannon’s diss is that Eminem is a father and adopted his niece?
Slim won’t show for the video, ‘cause he terrified of my squadI heard your chauffeur got a video of you suckin’ a cockYou paid him off, then laid him off, now who really the opp?
Oooh, AND saying that Eminem sucked a dick? Glad that Nick Cannon is helping to make rap a less homophobic place
Especially when there are actual horrible crimes Eminem could be taken to task for, like the fact that saying “stan” for fan is his fault.
There you go again, with that bullshit. When are you going to fucking stop?
Motherfuckers that ain’t selling no records trying to stay relevant and get some Spotify pennies.
Only dumbass Nick Cannon would listen to Killshot and go “I got next”.
So, what grade are all these people in?
Nick Cannon took over the morning show in SoCal on Power 106 and it’s hands down the worst morning show I’ve ever heard. Why the fuck does he still get any work?
I guess he didn’t understand The Warning.