 Eminem seemed a little out of character recently, when he opted not to fire back at Nick Cannon following his furious blog post in response to Em's diss to his wife Mariah Carey in his new track.
Instead, Em seemed to take the high road during an interview with BBC Radio 1 host Tim Westwood, who asked the rapper about his feelings over Nick Cannon's angry rebuttal to the diss track called "Bagpipes From Bagdad," in which he and Carey are targeted.
According to the Detroit rapper, he realized he may have went a little too far with a few of his lyrics, but said it wasn't a personal attack and shouldn't be taken as such.
"With the song 'Bagpipes From Baghdad,' I kinda spazzed out on that record, but I guess I spazzed out on every record," Em told Westwood of the Relapse track. "There's a line on there that was a little harsh. It's a harsh line. ... But it's like this, the way I look at it: I had no idea he was gonna take it like he took it. I had no idea Nick Cannon was gonna start wildin' out on me. No pun intended."
On the track, Em spits lines like: "Nick Cannon better back the f*** up. I'm not playing, I want her back, you punk," and, "Nick Cannon, you pr***, I wish you luck with that f***in' whore".
These are lines Cannon took offense too, although Em says they were misinterpreted. As he continued to explain the song, Eminem downplayed the situation, in what seemed to be an attempt to diffuse possibly tension between the two celebrities.
In Nick's blog entry last week, he called the song an "act of racist bigotry" that "cannot go unnoticed," and said Em's claims of dating Carey in the past are "fabrications." Ultimately, Nick threatened to return to rap to embarrass Eminem, concluding that he was going to "make you wish you never spoke my name and regret the ungodly things you said about my wife."
Eminem caught wind of Nick's online rant, although he admitted he didn't read it himself.
"I heard about some of the things he was saying," Em said. "I didn't read his blog or anything. But it is what it is. He's supposed to defend his wife, and I expected him to do that. But at the end of the day, it's a line I said; it's a song. What I actually meant to say is, I wish them the best. That's what I meant to say. That's the whole message of the record."
Westwood tried to instigate, asking the rapper how he'd feel in participating in a rap battle with Cannon, but he didn't fall for it.
"I didn't plan on taking it to that level," Em said. "Hopefully, it doesn't. But it is what it is."
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