Nelly “felt like a dick” after Eminem feud, which he puts down to “misinterpretation”

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Nelly has reflected on his decades-old feud with Eminem, saying he “felt like a dick” afterwards due to a “misinterpretation”.Speaking on the Bootleg Kev podcast recently, Nelly was asked about his beef with Eminem in the early 2000s.

At the time, Nelly was fresh on the scene, while Eminem was already a bona fide star. Due to a “misinterpretation” of one of Eminem’s lines that the ‘Just A Dream’ rapper initially took as a diss towards him.Nelly then went onto MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL), where he took a shot at Eminem, saying he didn’t like Eminem’s “sly little comments”: “I don’t play with candy.

I eat M&Ms… I just don’t think dude plans on coming to tour to St. Louis.”Eminem responded by calling him out on the 2002 diss track ‘Invasion’, which was largely aimed at Ja Rule and Benzino.

On the track, he referenced Nelly’s ‘Air Force Ones’, rapping: “Stomping in my Air Force Ones / But you won’t be able to tell / If it’s two pairs or one / It’s just gonna feel like so many feet kicking you.”On the Bootleg Kev podcast, Nelly shared that the two were later about to squash their beef without taking the feud any further, and even called Eminem “the GOAT [Greatest Of All Time]”.According to Nelly, Eminem reached out at an afterparty in Detroit: “Somebody came and was like, ‘Yo, Em wanna come through and holler’… He was like, ‘Yo man, my daughter… [is a fan]’ I felt like such a dick.