Nick Cannon and Eminem Have Had Beef for Over 10 Years — Here's How It Started

Mar. 28 2023, Updated 11:40 a.m. ET

Though Mariah Carey once sang that she didn't want so much for Christmas, what she were given was a public feud between her exes and several songs written about her as "gifts" over the years. The "All I Want for Christmas is You" singer was married to actor/rapper Nick Cannon from 2008 to 2016, and the 2 had twins Monroe and Moroccan together.

Despite getting divorced and occurring to have public relationships with people (and in Nick's case, many, many more children), the 2 are committed co-parents, and they nonetheless make public appearances with their kids in combination.

What many do not take into accout is that Mariah Carey also dated rapper Eminem in 2001, and both Nick and Eminem have known as each and every other out of their respective tune before.

While nearly twenty years have handed since Eminem and Mariah were an item, he referred to as her out in any other music again in 2019. What's happening with the Nick Cannon and Eminem red meat?

It's about more than Mariah — it contains accusations involving a chauffeur, diss tracks, and different rappers taking aspects too

What's up with the Nick Cannon/Eminem pork?

Let's start initially of the drama. Though Eminem and Mariah allegedly dated for six months in 2001, the first indication the general public got of this relationship used to be when Eminem launched the tune "Superman" in 2002, which integrated the lyrics, "What you tryin' to be? My new wife? What you Mariah, fly through twice."

In "When the Music Stops," which used to be also launched that 12 months, one of the lyrics is "'Fore I do that, I'd beg Mariah to take me back," about what he'd do if he stopped generating song.

He later threatened to unlock voicemails from Mariah after she went on Larry King Live and claimed that the two by no means dated. He did play a few of them to audiences while on excursion in 2002.

For her part, Mariah's 2002 track "Clown" hinted on the drama between her and Eminem. One of the lyrics is, "You should've never intimated we were lovers. When you know very well we never even touched each other."

Mariah's 2009 song "Obsessed" was once allegedly about Eminem too, and she dressed just like the rapper in the tune video.

Fast forward to 2019, and Eminem returned to tune with weapons blazing. He released "Lord Above" on Dec. 6 with Fat Joe and Mary J. Blige. In Eminem's verse, he calls Nick out without delay, saying that Mariah controls him.

"I know me and Mariah didn't end on a high note," Eminem's lyric about Nick starts. "But that other dude's whipped ... tried to tell him this chick's a nutjob ... almost got my caboose kicked."

Nick wasn't about to let Eminem unencumber a song without any response, so he went ahead and recorded his thoughts at the matter. He released "The Invitation" on Dec. 9, 2019, and he alleged that he used to be the one who got Fat Joe to do a observe with Eminem, and that Mariah "destroyed" him a decade ago (which is likely relating to "Obsessed").

The music begins with a recorded voicemail from convicted felon Suge Knight, who's lately in prison for manslaughter.

"Nick is family," Suge says. "Eminem's a b---h."

Nick also implied within the track that Eminem does medicine, and he criticized Eminem for his ex-wife and the truth that he raises his ex-wife's daughter, who is not biologically his.

The wildest lyric was about Eminem's chauffeur.

"The Invitation" is full of accusations against Eminem as a father, ex, and individual, but Nick unveiled a completely new accusation within the track, which comes to Eminem paying off his chauffeur. Nick claims that Eminem's motive force recorded a video of Eminem and another man.

"I heard your chauffeur got a video of you suckin' a c--k," he raps. "You paid him off, then laid him off, now who really the opp?"

The accusation quickly went viral, with lovers speculating as as to if or now not this used to be true. A snippet of Eminem's music "What if I was Gay?" used to be leaked in 2019, which further fueled the fires. 

Eminem reacted on Twitter to the accusation that he paid off his chauffeur.

"I never had a chauffeur, you bougie f--k," he tweeted in accordance with Nick's music. Eminem additionally joked that his gardener was once jealous about the rumor about his chauffeur. It did not finish there, regardless that.

While filming his MTV series, Wild 'N Out, Nick took an Instagram video telling Eminem to return at the display. He additionally posted a number of movies of his past stand-up routines, throughout which he had addressed the drama whilst he was once still married to Mariah.

Other rappers took sides within the fight, together with 50 Cent, who posted a picture of Eminem on his Instagram page (the two have long been supporters of one another).

"I don’t understand to save my life why someone would pick a fight with EM," he wrote. "He is a different kinda animal, I haven’t seen a motherf---er come close to beating him, man. Hey Nick, that s--t was trash, I oughta kick you in yo a-- when I see you PUNK!"

Mariah herself has but to reply to both of her exes's songs or their ongoing feud.

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