# Nick Cannon Defends Feud With Eminem Over Mariah Carey: ‘You Can’t Come at My Wife’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/nick-cannon-defends-feud-with-eminem-over-mariah-carey-you-cant-come-at-my-wife/
- Published: 2026-11-10T08:56:14+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T22:52:59+00:00
- Original publisher: Rolling Stone
- Original article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cannon-eminem-mariah-carey-feud-defense-1235655048/
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Cannon says he responded to Eminem’s insults about Carey.
- Eminem’s claims of a romance with Carey were denied by her.
- Cannon released three diss tracks in 2019.

## Summary

Nick Cannon has defended his years-long dispute with Eminem, saying he felt obliged to respond after the rapper insulted Mariah Carey, Cannon’s then-wife. The feud grew from Eminem’s claims of a past relationship with Carey, which she denied, and his references to both her and Cannon in songs.

Carey and Cannon married in 2008, after the earlier tension between Carey and Eminem began in the early 2000s. Eminem mentioned Carey on several tracks, including “Bagpipes From Baghdad”; Cannon later released three diss tracks in 2019, after his divorce from Carey. Carey said last year she had heard a claim that a proposed role in 8 Mile may have contributed to the dispute, but she was unsure and said she did not care what Eminem had said.

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