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Over 20 years have passed since Eminem first ignited his feud with Mariah Carey, and Nick Cannon is still pretty heated about it. Following a lot of back and forth between Eminem, Mariah, and Nick over the span of several years, it felt like they finally put the drama to bed… but apparently not where her ex-husband is concerned.
In fact, it’s 2026, and Nick is still defending his decision to fight back against the rapper publicly, even though he and Mariah have been divorced since 2016. Eminem’s words must have really cut him deep.
The feud originally started in 2002, before Nick and Mariah were even together.
Looking back on the beginning of the feud, People reported that in a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone, not only did Eminem claim he once dated Mariah, but he also called her a “diva.”
“I don’t want to say anything disrespectful because I respect her as a singer, but on the whole personal level, I’m not really feeling it,” Eminem told the magazine at the time. “I just don’t like her as a person. I gotta be honest; I learned a lesson from it: Don’t believe the hype. I have respect for her, but she doesn’t really have it all together. I’ll just say that and that she’s a beautiful woman.”
There’s just one problem: According to Mariah herself, she and Eminem never actually dated beyond a few hang outs, and the two went back and forth in their songs with disses aimed at each other for a while.
Over the years, the drama spiraled.
Once Nick entered the picture, Eminem started firing off at him, too, and in 2009, Nick wrote a blog post he titled “Slim Lamey” and said that the rapper was “still obsessed with my wife.”
(Yes, these are all real things that happened, and yes, everyone involved was, in fact, an adult at the time.)
It’s obviously been a long time since then, and it’s also been more than a decade since Nick and Mariah were romantically involved, but none of that stopped him from bringing it up all over again when he was a guest on the On Par With Maury Povich podcast this week.
Nick still isn’t letting it go.
While talking to Maury, Nick said that he couldn’t ignore what Eminem was saying when Mariah was still his wife, adding that he “couldn’t stand for that.”
“He disrespected my woman, man! You can’t come at my wife and don’t expect to get this work,” Nick told the legendary talk show host. “I mean, I think he and Mariah had a professional relationship, which he professed to be a personal relationship and so that was way before me.”
He continued, “I was like, the dignity of my woman, man! I had to fight for my relationship, my love.”
And that he did… even if she’s not his love anymore. Whomp whomp.
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