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In what is probably a good move for him, but a bad one for celebrity gossip sites who love a good feud, Nick Cannon took to (what else) his Twitter page to address the ongoing battle between his wife Mariah Carey and rapper Eminem.

Cannon Twittered various philosophical, Biblical quotes about rising above anger and not giving in to revenge: "Never take your own revenge, but rather give place unto the wrath," read one of his messages on the social networking site.

He also included a direct Bible quote, "'I will bless those that bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.' Genesis 12:3" and insightful thoughts like:

"Those who feed into negativity must examine there [sic] purpose on this earth."

Eminem vs. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Cannon: A feud that shall not end.

The Tweets are a reaction to Eminem's latest track, "The Warning," in which the rapper goes after the Cannons directly, and swears he had a previous relationship with the singer, with the nude Mariah Carey pictures to prove it even.

Eminem initially ripped Carey in the song "Bagpipes from Baghdad." Carey got revenge by portraying a stalker in her video "Obsessed" that looked remarkably like Eminem, though Carey and her husband have denied any parody.

Whose side are you on?

Eminem has once again gone back to the seemingly endless well of celebrity disses and pulled out a new diatribe directed at Mr. and Mrs. Nick Cannon.

The reason (not that he's ever needed one) - he's firing back at Mariah Carey's recent Slim Shady-channeling video for her single, "Obsession."

In "The Warning," Eminem raps:

"I got the exact same tattoo that's on Nick's back, I'm obsessed now, oh gee, is that supposed to be me in the video with the goatee?"

He goes on to gloat about the time Mariah "was wild 'n' out before Nick" and when he himself gave Carey "somethin' to smile about." Wow.

This all started, we think, because Carey has made light of her reported relationship with Eminem back in 2001, and the rapper is clearly pissed.

Eminem gave Carey a shout-out in his recent tune "Bagpipes From Baghdad," which included a pointed suggestion to Cannon to "back the f*%k up."

Cannon responded in May that "homeboy is still obsessed with my wife."

A few days later, Eminem implied to listeners of the satellite radio show he was hosting that he had once urinated on the superstar. On purpose.

Get ready for Eminem vs. Nick and Mariah, Round 10. [Photos: Fame Pictures]

Back to Team Cannon. Earlier this year, Carey dressed up like Eminem and poked no small amount of fun at him in her music video for "Obsessed."

Which brings us to "The Warning," in which Eminem scaldingly raps:

"You probably think if I had something on you I woulda did it by now, on the contrary, Mary Poppins, I'm mixing our studio session down and sending it off to mastering to make it loud, enough dirt on you to murder you, this is what the f--k I do..."

"Mariah, it ever occur to you that I still have pictures?"

Oh, boy. "But if I'm embarrassing me, I'm embarrassing you and don't you dare say it isn't true," he continues later in the track.

"As long as the song's getting airplay I'm dissing you, I'm a hair away from getting carried away and getting sued, I was gonna stop at 16, this is 32, this is 34 bars, we ain't even a third of the way through."

Bottom line? Don't expect to outlast Eminem in a feud.

Whose side are you on?

Mariah Carey is out for revenge against Eminem.

Dressing up in drag as the rapper while filming the music video for her song "Obsessed" in New York City, the singer took their feud to a new level.

The Mariah Carey tune's lyrics include this line:

"You're so lame. Ooh boy, why you so obsessed with me? Ohh finally found a girl you couldn't impress / Last man on the earth / still couldn't get this."

Ohh, snap. We have to say, her costume designer did one heck of a job.

Here's Mariah and the real Eminem. Who do you think is more hard core?

Mariah Carey channels her inner Eminem. It's a pretty accurate depiction.

This is in response to when Eminem rapped about Mariah Carey - who he has said he briefly dated in 2001 - in his song "Bagpipes From Baghdad."

In that song, Eminem raps, "Mariah whatever happened to us. Why did we ever have to break-up? Nick Cannon, you better back the f**k up. I'm not playing, I want her back, you punk ... I wish you luck with that ... wh*re!"

Those lyrics prompted Carey's husband Nick Cannon to respond: "What type of grown... man lies about getting with a chick? Only Slim Lamey! LOL!"

Bet Eminem is still stinging inside and lying awake at night replaying that retort. He did admit later that he went too far in that song, at least. 

Rebellious. Controversial. Iconic.

Hilarious?

Of all the terms used to describe Eminem, rarely would one resort to anything that depicted the rapper as having a sense of humor. But that's all changed, now that Eminem has owned up to his role in the buzzed-about stunt between himself and Bruno at this year's MTV Movie Awards.

"I'm thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it," the artist told RapRadar.com "It had so many people going nuts, so to speak. Everyone was blowing me up about it."

In case 8 Mile wasn't evidence enough, Eminem showed the world his acting skills at the MTV Movie Awards.

How did the stunt come about?

"Sacha called me when we were in Europe and he had an idea to do something outrageous at the Movie Awards. I'm a big fan of his work so I agreed to get involved with the gag."

While viewers were wondering about the legitimacy of Bruno's bare-assed attack, Eminem says he was laughing over it.

"After the ceremony I went back to my hotel and laughed uncontrollably for about three hours. Especially after I saw it on air."

As The Hills has proven over the years, things that are scripted can still be entertaining.

This now applies to the unexpected, half-naked confrontation between Sacha Baron Cohen's character of Bruno and Eminem at Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards.

Yes, Bruno was dressed in a thong; and, of course, those were his bare buttocks being wagged in the rapper's face. But Eminem knew it was coming, as writer Scott Aukerman (the head comedy writer for the show) has confirmed on his blig:

"The Bruno/Eminem incident was staged... they rehearsed it at dress and yes, it went as far as it did on the live show."

It would have been cooler if it were legitimate, but it's still worth another viewing:

Eminem is ready to be seen in public again, following his mouthful at the MTV Movie Awards.

One would think that after being that close to Sacha Baron Cohen's unmentionables, the real Slim Shady would have needed a little more time to recover. But that wasn't the case, as he made a trip Monday afternoon to visit friend Travis Baker's L.A. store 'Fast Life."

Whether the MTV Movie Awards were scripted or not, we don't really care. We just appreciated this self proclaimed "bad-ass" finally getting a good look in the mirror.

The good news about all of this is that, as far as we can tell, Eminem has showed no signs of having caught pink eye. See for yourself...

[Photo Credit: Fame Pictures]

Unlike other networks, MTV knows how to host a movie awards show.

At last night's annual event, celebrities from all industries walked the red carpet, the New Moon trailer premiered and Kiefer Sutherland cried hysterically into the arms of Ben Stiller.

But two events stand out the most from the evening:

1. A half-naked Sacha Baron Cohen (in his character of Bruno) fell into Eminem's lap. At the sight, and touch, of Bruno's bare buttocks, Eminem fumed: "Are you serious? Get the **** off me!," before storming out of his seat.
2. After their win for best kiss, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart stood at the podium and came... so... close... to... kissing.

Here's a look at each of the memorable occurrences:

Which MTV Movie Awards development was most shocking?

On second thought, even Eminem admits he may have made a mistake when he referred to Mariah Carey as a "whore" in the single "Bagpipes from Baghdad."

Following a challenge thrown down by Carey's husband, Nick Cannon, Eminem told British DJ Tim Westwood:

With the song “Bagpipes From Baghdad,” there’s a line on there, I mean, I kinda spazzed out on that record but I guess I spazzed out on every record. There’s a line on there that was a little harsh, you know, it’s a harsh line… but you know man, the way I look at it, I said it, I had no idea he was going to take it like he took it.

I had no idea Nick Cannon was gonna start wildin’ out on me. No pun intended. I heard about some of the things he was saying, I didn’t read his blog or anything. It is what it is, he’s supposed to defend his wife. I expected him to do that. But at the end of the day, it’s a line I said, but I meant to say is I wish them the best.

Has Eminem's celebrity-skewering gone too far?

No, we don't care that Bill O'Reilly called out the rapper for lyrics in his latest single, "We Made You." That guy sucks.

But Nick Cannon has gone public with a more understandable complaint: Eminem refers to his wife, Mariah Carey, as a "whore" in the song "Bagpipes From Baghdad."

In the single, the artist refers to his alleged romance with Carey from years ago, rapping:

Mariah whatever happened to us. Why did we ever have to break-up? Nick Cannon, you better back the f--- up. I'm not playing, I want her back, you punk... I wish you luck with that ... wh---"

In an admirable defense of his woman, Cannon fired back at Eminem in a blog entry last week, writing that he is "still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn't let him get to second base from 8 years ago."

Cannon then refers to Eminem as "Slim Lamey" and  challenge to him to a confrontation:

"Man to man, let's meet up and deal with this like adults. This is my invitation to you, whenever and wherever you like sir. So when you come out of your introverted hiding place and ask your bodyguards if you can go out and play by yourself, I'm here Pimp!

"Miss Marshall, I'm going to make you wish you never spoke my name and regret the ungodly things you said about my wife. Your legacy has now been tainted from this day forth! You will now be known as the rapper who lost to corny-ass Nick Cannon!"

Wow. Whose side are you on in this feud?

Who knew Eminem had so much in common with Dr. Gregory House?

In the June/July issue of Vibe, the rapper tells the world that he's a drug addict, having recently overcome an addiction to pain medication that nearly killed him.

"It's no secret I had a drug problem," Eminem writes in the first-person account. "If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don't even know what I was taking."

Following a 2005 stint in rehab, the artist relapsed and almost died from an overdose after swallowing a handful of unidentified blue pills an acquaintance had provided.

"My doctor told me those mysterious new pills were methadone, which is used to wean heroin addicts off dope," he says. "Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn't have taken it. But as bad as I was back then, I can't even say 100 percent for sure. My doctor told me the amount of methadone I'd taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin. Even when they told me I almost died, it didn't click."

The rapper adds that he can now relate to his mother, who has battled addiction for most of her adult life.

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