Nick Cannon gave Fat Joe his props as a hip-hop legend when he appeared as a guest on Cannon’s self-titled talk show. He also disclosed that the “All the Way Up” MC was instrumental in helping to squash the decade-long beef between the host and Eminem.
“Your show is so entertaining and so real and authentic, and it helps people,” Cannon said of Joe’s popular Instagram Live chats. “And honestly, I gotta keep it a stack, this brother right here helped end the ‘beef’ with me and Eminem on his show. And it wasn’t no ‘real beef,’ but Joe was like, ‘Man, I gotta get you two brothers together, man.’ And he called Eminem.”
Fat Joe took it from there, recalling his mandate to Em. “I said, ‘This gotta stop.’ You know, y’all both my friends, y’all my brothers, y’all beautiful people, I don’t even know what this is about.”
“Fat Joe ended it, you gotta listen to the OG,” Nick said. “Shouts out to Eminem.”
The feud between Nick Cannon and Eminem, which started in 2009 after the latter called out Nick on his Relapse track “Bagpipes from Baghdad,” had died down in recent years, but it heated up again in February 2020 when Slim Shady took another jab at the Wild ’N Out host on the Fat Joe and Dre song “Lord Above.”
“I know me and Mariah didn’t end on a high note/But that other dude’s whipped, that pussy got him neutered,” Em rapped, referring to Cannon’s ex-wife Mariah Carey, who has long been the source of their beef. “Tryna tell him his chick’s a nut ’fore he got his jewels clipped/Almost got my caboose kicked/Fool, quit, you not gon’ do shit/I let her chop my balls off too before I lost to you, Nick.”
Cannon then released a handful of his own diss tracks aimed at Eminem, including “The Invitation” and “Pray for Him.”
For the majority of the interview, Nick Cannon was mostly giving Joe his flowers—and then some.
“And you created so many phrases and movement and culture,” Cannon said before listing off a handful of Joey Crack's achievements, including coining the terms “all the way up” and “make it rain.”
“Wasn't nobody saying ‘make it rain’ till I said ‘make it rain,’” Joe agreed. “That ‘make it rain’ different. I remember I was watching [Black Panther] and [Chadwick Bozeman]’s chasing the guy and the guy shoots the box and the money’s in there and he say ‘make it rain,’ and I was like ‘damn.’”
Check out the Nick Cannon show clips above.
