Bad Breakup Example? The Eminem-Mariah Carey Slingfest

This so-called breakup story is all over the news – Eminem vs. Mariah Carey. These two music superstars have been airing their bad laundry in public for years now, to the point of polluting the airwaves.

Most of us have heard Mariah Carey's latest single "Obsessed" by now, whether we like it or not. The song includes the lyrics "Lyin' that you're sexin' me when everybody knows it's clear that you're upset with me." The video, on the other hand, featured a cross-dressing Mariah playing the role of the obsessed fan.

Although she has been denying it, popular thinking goes that this Mariah song is a diss at Eminem, whom many fans say resembles the obsessed fan in the "Obsessed" video. Popular thinking also has it that the song is a reaction to Eminem's "Bagpipes from Baghdad," where the rapper called Carey a whore.


The latest turn in the drama came when Eminem released the song "The Warning" last July. This time, he threatens to bring out all the pictures and voicemail that he said he has of Carey to prove that the relationship existed.

In case you are confused already, the point is just this: Eminem and Mariah Carey supposedly dated in 2001. Mariah denied this and the denial pissed Eminem off. This is what started the slingfest that we are now listening to on the radio.

Whether something went down between these two or not, carrying on like this is so immature. Slingfests after a breakup like this one would be understandable if it happened in high school. But it did not.