Remember when Nick Cannon couldn't get Eminem's name out of his mouth?

Nick will probably say Shady started it with all the Mariah Carey stuff.

And there is a lot of truth to that.  But a couple of years ago all the mostly one-sided Eminem talk from Cannon was making Nick look like a clout chaser.

Then Eminem and Cannon made up.

Nick recently chatted with Fat Joe and revealed that it was the Terror Squad boss who deaded the beef.

“Your show is so entertaining and so real and authentic, and it helps people,” Cannon told Joe. “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 ended it, you gotta listen to the OG. Shouts out to Eminem.”