{"id":57180,"date":"2025-10-02T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57180\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:12:07","slug":"mariah-carey-on-eminem-feud-over-8-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/57180\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey on Eminem Feud Over 8 Mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mariah_carey__;!!HqJSLGM!oWW6s9sIhGCxanM-w6pLeGxbkTeFA73dnQRMtGhBsXiplTsqQ4aFl6yoogzsMmTnm7UBE3Wha0NFIFR0XAMaQFeTqy4z$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariah Carey<\/a>\u00a0isn\u2019t obsessed with drama.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when it pertains to her longtime rival Eminem. The \u201cObsessed\u201d singer cleared the air about the rumor that their beef started because <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1418601\/eminem-wanted-mariah-carey-to-play-his-mother-in-8-mile__;!!HqJSLGM!oWW6s9sIhGCxanM-w6pLeGxbkTeFA73dnQRMtGhBsXiplTsqQ4aFl6yoogzsMmTnm7UBE3Wha0NFIFR0XAMaQKugLW3X$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she didn\u2019t want to play the rapper\u2019s mother in <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1418601\/eminem-wanted-mariah-carey-to-play-his-mother-in-8-mile__;!!HqJSLGM!oWW6s9sIhGCxanM-w6pLeGxbkTeFA73dnQRMtGhBsXiplTsqQ4aFl6yoogzsMmTnm7UBE3Wha0NFIFR0XAMaQKugLW3X$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">8 Mile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho knows who approached who,\u201d Mariah explained about whether there was validity to the story during the Oct. 1 episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t0LcGNTM0Yg__;!!HqJSLGM!oWW6s9sIhGCxanM-w6pLeGxbkTeFA73dnQRMtGhBsXiplTsqQ4aFl6yoogzsMmTnm7UBE3Wha0NFIFR0XAMaQL4iy9ns$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch What Happens Live<\/a>. \u201cNo, I mean maybe. It depends what he\u2019s thinking.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though host Andy Cohen questioned whether that incident \u201cignited the beef,\u201d Mariah simply couldn\u2019t be concerned with the \u201cMockingbird\u201d\u00a0rapper\u2019s issues with her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t care,\u201d she said. \u201cWhatever he\u2019s said that I\u2019m that, fine. Not really, that\u2019s a rap lyric.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June, Mariah\u2019s former manager Damizza Young\u00a0claimed that she was initially excited to take a call with the rapper to discuss appearing in a film. However, once Eminem got her on the phone, it was all downhill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to play my mother,\u201d Damizza said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SxYV9C-wmzM__;!!HqJSLGM!oWW6s9sIhGCxanM-w6pLeGxbkTeFA73dnQRMtGhBsXiplTsqQ4aFl6yoogzsMmTnm7UBE3Wha0NFIFR0XAMaQJDnattn$\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TFU<\/a>\u00a0podcast as he recalled Eminem, 52, telling Mariah, 56, before revealing her reaction. \u201cShe did not like that s&#8211;t at all. Her insecurities kicked in big time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s clear that Mariah Carey\u00a0isn\u2019t obsessed with drama. Especially when it pertains to her longtime rival Eminem. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-57180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}