![]() ![]() ![]() “Clown” is her most artful shade to date because of how sheerly pitiful it renders its victim: “Consequently now your ego’s fully overblown, you don’t want the world to know that you’re just a puppet show and the little boy inside often sits at home alone and cries, cries, cries, cries.” Consequently, indeed, Eminem attacked her incessantly over the years to follow. ![]() Unfortunately for him, Carey is a hip-hop artist at heart, with a knack for witty rhymes and a penchant for shade. In 2002, she penned her finest, shadiest composition to date, for the Charmbracelet album: “ Clown.” So eloquent, witty and downright ego-shattering, “Clown” is a clear attack of Eminem, who prefers to pick fights with pop divas rather than fellow male rappers who he must fear might actually hit back. Carey began to own her shadiness in all it’s eternal glory. Mariah eagerly sang along, to the tune of the song’s originally intended sample stolen by Jennifer Lopez, taunting her imitators: “Hate on me, as much as you want to, you can’t do what the fuck I do, bitches be imitating me daily” OOP!įrom this point on, Ms. As we already detailed extensively, one particular shade-inducing conflict was born, yielding one notable bit of shade on an otherwise festive 80s-themed album: Da Brat’s rap on the “ Loverboy” remix. In 2001, Mariah had a particularly unfortunate year. In a song littered with biting shade, the shadiest bit of all is when she sings, “Conversations painfully weak, you were much better off when you didn’t speak.” Welp. “ Did I Do That?,” though, found Carey ethering an unidentified (but not too hard to figure out) suitor who was, apparently, not the brightest bulb. Co-penned by former Xscape member Kandi, the song fit right in alongside similarly shady anthems by Destiny’s Child and TLC that same year. One, “ X-Girlfriend,” found Mariah doing a rare read of another female for trying to steal her man. Unfortunately for fans of Carey’s shady sass, it was absent from her next three albums, not reappearing until 1999’s Rainbow. She downright calls him “heartless.” Ouch. Perhaps the controlling Italian wasn’t here for all the shade on her debut and, for whatever reason, her sophomore album, 1991’s Emotions, only had one shady moment: “ You’re So Cold,” a bubbly C&C Music Factory production on which Mariah proceeds to read a, you-guessed-it, cold man his rights for being so damn cruel. With her debut album, “Mariah Carey shade” became a brand of its own. And, indeed, that same album had two more rather shady cuts: “ Prisoner” (a song the very existence of she likes to shade) and “ You Need Me” both were rather feisty assertions of girl power and sass, even featuring Mariah delivering her first ever rap verses. “Someday” seemed like your standard, cute girl-hates-boy sort of shade, but as the years went on, her shade intensified. However, one of those hits also showcased another talent of Carey’s: “ Someday” provided our first introduction to what has now become legendary – her artfully flawless ability to throw shade. On her self-titled debut, Mariah Carey introduced the world to her miraculous voice and her ability to write hit R&B songs that could crossover to the pop charts. At age 18, she was signed to Columbia Records by an old, controlling Italian-American man, and released her debut album at age 20. Despite having 500 hours of beauty school, she ventured off to New York City to pursue a music career. Born to an Irish-American mother and an Afro-Venezuelan-American father, she would grow up to have one of the best voices the music world would ever hear, a witty way with words and a masterful gift of melody. Once upon a time, there was a young multi-racial, multi-talented girl from Long Island, New York. ![]()
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