Nick Cannon and Eminem made headlines this week when they reignited their on-again-off-again, decade-old “feud” over the Queen of Christmas herself, Mariah Carey.
Just to recap: On Monday, Cannon dropped a diss track in which he took a homophobic swing at Eminem, implying the rapper had a gay sex tape.
“I heard your chauffeur got a video of you suckin’ a c*ck/You paid him off then laid him off/Now who really the opps,” Cannon alleged.
He followed that up with a tweet implying Eminem’s lawyers were trying to stop the tape from being released.
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This set off a whole Twitter exchange between the two, chocked full of toxic masculinity and racially charged remarks, including Eminem calling Cannon “bougie as f*ck” and Cannon calling Eminem an “Aryan Savior” who sleeps with his male employees.
But it appears the two rappers’ obvious bid for a little end-of-the-year publicity may be backfiring, because many people just aren’t having it.
its 2020 and eminem and nick cannon are really beefing and the gist of the beef is: NO U R THE GAY
— mohini (@moehiny) December 11, 2019
This Nick Cannon/Eminem “beef” is too comedic. Eminem still using his outdated rap style of talking shit about celebrities, meanwhile Nick is using a “you’re secretly gay” as an insult. Did I step back into a time machine with this trash? pic.twitter.com/flz5mp8GKZ
— Its Chrisney Bitch! (@CBenz88) December 10, 2019
Nick out here makin himself look homophobic ?
— DuckieZoZo (@DuckieZoZo) December 10, 2019
It's different hearing the @Eminem and @NickCannon beef when you're not homophobic cause he's mostly just saying that Em sucked some dudes dick and like who cares?
— Ethan Martin (@EMartinRnB) December 11, 2019
All I gotta say about this em and Nick Cannon beef, the most homophobic people always doin some gay shit ?
— beetsbytee (@teegrilled) December 11, 2019
In an op-ed titled We’re All Losers In Eminem And Nick Cannon’s Embarrassing Feud and published by Forbes, Bryan Rolli writes:
Do we really need another diss track laced with misogyny and homophobia aimed at a celebrity whose rap career is virtually nonexistent? Eminem is 47; Cannon is 39; both men have better things to do than trade schoolyard taunts over a woman with whom neither is involved and doesn’t deserve to be dragged down into their gross antics. (She’s too busy making a bid for No. 1 with “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”) There’s no winner in this embarrassing feud between Cannon and Eminem, but we’re all losers for having witnessed it.
Imagine that! Evidently, homophobia doesn’t fly like it used to 10 years ago, when the “feud” between the two began. Here’s hoping both men take note of that.
Cam
Introducing a new music genre, Yawn rap.
Josh in OR
Isn’t that pretty much all of this new, internet-born mumblecore “rap” about popping Xanax for fun…?
Chrisk
Only is the wrap world.
dinard38
LGBTQ sure does throw around the word homophobia WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY too much. Everything is not homophobic. These are just two grown a$$ men throwing around childish insults.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
To this day I still feel Eminem’s war with Moby was a collaboration between both of them and this war sounds the same. Eminem is aware he is an invader and has to produce a tough guy image so whom better to war with other than a nobody, more or less?
Creamsicle
I wonder if this casual homophobia is why so many of the young kids are ditching hip-hop for R&B.