Two weeks after posting an angry rant over Eminem's diss to his wife Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon has changed his tune. Despite threatening to bring his "wack rhymes out of retirement," the rapper says it was never a beef, but simply a response.

"I never even considered it as beef. It's not beef. It's just, 'Hey, I heard the record. I said what I had to say,'" Nick told EW.com this week.

In a blog entry posted earlier this month, an angry Nick went after Em for comments about his wife on the track "Bagpipes from Baghdad." On the track, Eminem calls Carey a "f***in' whore" and a "c***", and Nick wasn't feeling it.

He accused Eminem of being both racially insensitive and "still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn't let him get to second base from 8 years ago." However, shortly after posting the rant, he took it down.

"I felt like I said what I had to say," Cannon explained. "I didn't take [the post] down, like, 'Oh, somebody instructed me to do it' or anything like that. It was just one of those things, like, I said it."

Cannon claims all the traffic to the post "pretty much crashed my site. There'd be thousands and thousands of comments and people couldn't leave comments on other posts or any of that stuff. So that was the only reason why I took it down."

Despite feeling different about the situation today, Nick says he sticks by everything he said. But, now that he's let it settle a bit, it's not that big a deal.

"'I feel exactly the same way by it and stick by everything, but I think it’s one of those things where it becomes that it's not really that big of a deal, you know?"

Since causing the controversy with the diss, Eminem has gone on to say that he didn't mean to stir things up with Nick and Mariah, saying that Nick took his lines the wrong way.

In an interview with BBC Radio 1 host Tim Westwood, Em explained that his lines were misinterpreted.

"I didn't read his blog or anything. But it is what it is," the Detroit rapper said. "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."