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*During Eminem’s set on his current Anger Management Tour, the rapper plays a string of private voicemail messages purported to be from Mariah Carey before he rips into his song, “Puke.” Needless to say, Carey’s camp wants him to stop. "While we appreciate Eminem as an artist, lately his work has seemed tasteless and unnecessarily mean-spirited,” Carey's manager, Benny Medina, told the New York Post. “The public seems to agree — just look at his declining record and concert ticket sales.” During the scene in question, Eminem is speaking to the audience when his D.J. suddenly throws on Carey’s No. 1 song, “We Belong Together.” The interruption causes him to dis the turntablist, but then Carey’s voicemail messages start to play. "I heard you were getting back with your ex-wife," she says. "Why won't you see me? Why won't you call me? You're not calling me . . ." While the audience is treated to Carey’s alleged phone messages, Em pretends to vomit in a prop toilet, then launches into “Puke.” According to the Post, the animosity between the artists began in the winter of 2001, when she asked for his help on her "Charmbracelet" album. Eminem claims they had an affair, which she denies. Subsequently, Eminem felt Carey put their relationship on blast in one of her songs on the album, which noted: "You should have never intimated we were lovers. I gotta break it to you delicately — who's gonna love you when it's over? Who's gonna care?" In 2002, Em insisted to Rolling Stone that the two had a brief affair and added: "On the whole personal level, I'm not really feeling it. I just don't like her as a person." And that brings us to last weekend, when a friend of M.C. spoke out against the voicemail messages in Em’s show. Her friend told the Post: "First of all, that is not her voice on the 'messages' played in the concert — it is an imposter. She is considering suing him for defamation. “They did hang out, but it was Eminem who followed her around. He became obsessed with her, showing up everywhere . . . She thought he was a friend. She thought hanging out with him was fun, but then he wanted to take it further, and she said no. She never slept with him and he felt rejected and scorned and got very angry." ---------------------------------------------- Speak Out
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