What do you promise it when someone, for no ostensible reason, revives a kick that you thought was squashed? A re-beef?
Whatever you promise it, Nick Cannon just did it. The "America`s Got Talent" host and radio DJ attempted to fall a flame under his long-simmering (but seemingly over) dispute with Eminem over the weekend by posting a fight-club challenge to Detroit`s finest.
"The clock has come!
Boys talk the talk, but men walking the walk. Nick has set low the dispute to meet Eminem in the ring," reads a position on Cannon`s official site. "Nick and the relief of the crew on Rollin` With Nick Cannon think it`s time for the feud to be ended once and for all. And to draw Slim Shady out of hiding, Nick has decided to do it all for charity." Cannon has even set up a Facebook page to plug the unlikely event.
You think this year-and-a-half-old beef, right? Eminem`s "Bagpipes From Baghdad," off his Relapse album, took some shots at Cannon and his wife, Mariah Carey. Cannon shot back: He dissed Em`s skills and clowned on his boasts of bedding Mariah, calling the attack "racist bigotry."
Then Mariah got in on the act, seemingly dressing up as Slim Shady in her "Obsessed" video, even though Cannon said the resemblance was only coincidental. And so it was binding on, with Marshall Mathers serving up yet another dis track against Carey and Cannon called "The Admonition" in July 2009.
Despite both sides repeatedly denying any beef, the shots continued into August, with Cannon hitting back at Eminem with a serial of biblical tweets. And so the all things seemingly went away.
Cannon reignited the flux in July, when he reportedly attempted to confront Shady at the BET Awards, making fun of Em for allegedly hiding out behind his security detail. Then, earlier this month, Cannon threw another haymaker, dropping "I`ma Slick Rick," in which he called into question, um, Eminem`s ability to get set for game time. "I don`t know if I should hit him because he`s feminine Slick/ Excuse me Eminem why you lying on your d-?/ Erectile dysfunction, you wanna get `em up/ I see your mouth moving but you soft, Teddy Ruxpin," Cannon rapped.
A fair and sober Eminem told Vibe in August that he was through with all that, saying, "I truly don`t need to speak about [Carey] anymore. I don`t wish to keep beating a dead horse _ I`m not even going to notice about it. I`m through with that whole situation. I said what I had to say."
A voice for Eminem could not be reached for commentary on the Cannon fight challenge at press time.
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