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Nick Cannon Falls Into The Eminem's Trap

Posted Mon May 11, 2009 5:23pm PDT by Billy Johnson, Jr. in Hip-Hop Media Training
Looks like Eminem successfully enlisted Nick Cannon to help promote his new album Relapse which is slated for a May 19 release.

 

Nick Cannon went on a rampage Friday when he heard Eminem's Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon diss track "Bagpipes From Baghdad." On the leaked song, Eminem jokes about his previous short-lived dating stint with Mariah.

Eminem sarcastically suggests that he wants "her back" while making derogatory slants about Mariah and her newlywed husband of one year.

Nick's angry blog response no longer appears on his website, however, it was cited by several news sources.

According to MTV, Nick initially thought "Bagpipes From Baghdad" was a joke. "I thought it was old material that had been dug up from when dude 'fantasized' about having a pretend fling with Mariah," the music television channel reported. "But all of a sudden I hear my name in the verse! My first reaction was like, 'This is his new sh-t? Wow, that's too bad.'"

Nick argues that Eminem's attack on Mariah is indicative of negative comments he made about Black women on the song "Foolish Pride" recorded prior to the release of his Interscope 1999 debut The Slim Shady LP. "How did we let him get away with that in the first place? He is a natural born racist is disguise," Nick wrote, hip hop blog Brokencool.com noted.

Nick says Eminem never got over Mariah. "I feel sorry for him because he must really be stuck in the past," Nick says, according to US magazine. "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."

"What type of grown...man lies about getting with a chick? Only Slim Lamey! LOL!" Cannon added.

Mariah addressed her relationship with Eminem on the song "Clown" from her 2003 album Charmbracelet. Mariah sang, "You should've never intimated we were lovers, when you know very well we never even touched each other."

Nick Cannon should have spoken out. Mariah is his wife, and he needed to defend her. But Nick's approach is all wrong. This isn't a real beef. It is an album set-up strategy within Eminem's shock-value platform. The more people get riled up and complain the bigger Eminem wins.

By getting irate, threatening Eminem, and digging up his old dramas, Nick has done exactly what Marshall Mathers hoped he would do. Eminem is the bad guy people love to hate. Nick has spent too much time on the subject.

Nick should have simply said that he did not appreciate the song and would discuss it would Eminem.

People are mocking Nick's long, play-by-play plan of attack. He just needs to contact Eminem, make a response record, or just move on. Otherwise, he is just fueling the hype of Relapse just like 50 Cent's preoccupation with Rick Ross helped Ross' Deeper Than Rap secure another No. 1 debut.

 

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5932 Comments

141. Yahoo! Music User -
Hey who's Nick Cannon! And Mariah Carey, is she still around I thought she die!

142. john -
i wonder if mariahs snatch has an odometer hhmmmm

143. Anon -
nick a load de an needs to invite em on his wack ass show and battle him

144. Focus on Important Things -
If anyone cares to sum the IQ's of these three celebs it still is less than 50. If anyone cares to sum the musical talent, it is below 0. If anyone cares to rate Carey's boob job, it might exceed the IQs, but just like their musical talent, it is all fake

145. Catmil -
add another dead beat to the hit list.......... what can Em say about this one..

146. Anteous -
Nick just speaking up for his wife. Em need to find new targets cuz why go after MC? Cmon you way more talented than that material from when you first came out. I miss the Stan Eminem.

147. lm -
you the writer of the article stated Nick threated M ( "threatening Eminem") and showing a thugish pic of Nick which further stereotypes blacks as being unable to discuss issues that they have to always resort to violence which in many cases has been true but doesnt mean ALL blacks are violent

148. Yahoo! Music User -
Who is Nick Cannon to talk about someone else's career not evolving?
Where's HIS career?
Oh wait, it's nonexistent!

149. Yahoo! Music User -
This is fu*king news? Another talentless a$$clown making headlines. Thank you, musically stupid people.

150. __A_YAHOO_USER__ -
Man proofread this stuff Billy.

151. Katie -
What surprises me is that Nick would take any thing that Em said seriously. He always releases a couple of smack songs before anything half way decent comes out of him. Nick needs shut his trap before he starts to look lame. He should have just laughed it off. He would have looked like the bigger man. Now everyone wants to find out what Em said. Fuel for the fire. Defending your spouse is all well and good, but come on people, this is rap - most of it's smack anyways. Why take any of it seriously?

152. slayerdragon -
if eminem can talk s*** about people and not get over the past,then he needs to take it like a man and let people talk s*** about him.Nick did the right thing by sticking up for his wife and not letting some psyhco,racist with an identity crisis say bitter comments like that.

AND yes i do believe he is a racist because of the crap he was talking about black women in the past in that hidden record of his.he has deep psyhcological issues and if someone calls me the "N" word do you think that i will kiss and make up with them? no

153. Clairessa R -
I like Emimen too, and I know his songs are rather imitating to people but that is how he is, no harm to anyone!

154. Yahoo! Music User -
nick is taking this all worng imagine if you were eminem and u were just trying to make a joke and somone was making it a huge deal and i lovee eminem soo im on ems side even though i see where nick is coming he didnt have to take it to such extents

155. Mario -
im not a nick cannon fan.its good he defended his wife but little does he know,hes temporary himself.Mariah will always come back to me

156. Mark M -
i smell rost nick coming bye eminem on his next label u i am a big fan of his and u don't just talk trash about him and get away with it . It is very true all he is trying to do is get his label off and all nick is doing is pooring fule into the fire and when this label sells to the top he will be coming back with another lable aiming at nick LMAO

157. IAN -
Lets face it eminem sucks, mariah and cannon sucks and hip hop sucks.

158. sports sucks 101 -
mariah don't know if she's white or black, Punk m&m only acts bad because he has bodyguards just a punk ass wanta be .

159. JoeP -
Who is Nick?

160. T -
eminem is a beast
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