Nick Cannon talks about his decade-long beef with Eminem.
Nick Cannon recently did a new phone interview with Billboard where he talks about his show “Wild ‘N Out“, the celebrity cameos, his quarantine life, and much more including his decade-long feud with Eminem which was reignited at the end of 2019 when Nick fired a few diss tracks at the Detroit rapper.
“My response was his invitation to Wild ‘N Out, and that still stands.” Nick talks about his beef with Eminem. “You gotta remember, I was defending myself once again. He keeps bringing it up for decades. I’m one of those cats that matches energy. I don’t do it, I overdo it. Even in high school, I was a little guy, but if you made fun of me, I was gonna make fun of you, your momma, and that’s the same energy of Wild ‘N Out. It was a month of social commentary, but if you’ve ever heard me speak on this matter, I always give that dude his props as an icon in hip-hop. I think he knows better now. If he keeps talking about me, I’m gonna keep talking back.”
He also addressed his comments on DJ Vlad’s show when he said Eminem is a product of institutional racism. “It’s the idea that there is a superior class of people who are judged by a different measuring stick,” said Cannon. “It’s something Eminem has even addressed being a guest in the house of hip-hop. When you come from a culture that was built by a community that didn’t have something of their own but were able to embrace it and it became a new conduit of information for a new culture. And when someone comes in and shines in that medium and takes it to the masses, it’s the same thing as [what] Elvis Presley [did]. There’s nothing wrong with it, but you gotta accept it for what it is.” Check out the full interview here on Billboard.
