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In Case You Forgot, Nick Cannon Says He Still Doesn't Like Eminem

7:34 p.m. · October 2, 2009 · by Tony Sclafani

Before reading the latest controversy-courting quote that Mariah Carey’s husband, Nick Cannon, gave to In Touch Weekly about his alleged nemesis Eminem, keep several facts in mind.

First, Carey’s newest CD, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel dropped this past Tuesday to mixed reviews. Right now, the album is battling it out with the newest Paramore album for the top spot. This has come after Carey's pre-album single “Obsessed” failed to reach the Top Ten in the R&B market and the Top Five on the pop charts, despite a well-publicized video that called out Eminem (as did the song's lyrics). Eminem, of course, retaliated with a song of his own, "The Warning."

But all that was months ago. So why did Cannon say the following to Touch Weekly? "[Eminem is] lucky I haven't run into him yet. I’m supposed to protect my woman if someone can be so heinous and disrespectful. Until we speak, I don’t respect him as a man. He and I need to have an old-school sit-down.”

To these eyes, this is starting to look less like a real feud and more like a bid to keep Carey’s name in the news, since the pre-release buzz over her new CD has faded away. If you’re wondering why a star of Carey’s magnitude would need publicity this late in the game, here’s a reason. As of now, she’s two Number One records away from tying the Beatles’ record of twenty Number One hits.

Her new single is a remake of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” that was added to her album at the eleventh hour and it made a disappointing debut below the Top 50 on the singles chart (as opposed to “Obsessed,” which jumped right into the Top 20).

If Nick and Eminem ever do have that “old school sit-down,” expect it to happen on “Oprah” or “The Howard Stern Show.”

Source: MTV