On a surface level, it doesn’t look like Eminem and Mariah Carey have much in common. Depending on who’s telling the story, though, they might have had a romantic relationship in the past that didn’t end on the best terms. Eminem mentioned Carey in two of his tracks off 2002’s “The Eminem Show.” On the track “Superman,” he rapped: “What, you tryin’ to be my new wife? What, you Mariah? Fly through twice.” In a subsequent interview with Rolling Stone, Em admitted the pair dated, but he didn’t particularly like her as a person.
Carey released the song “Clown” — from her 2002 album “Charmbracelet” — which many people believed was a denial about her relationship with Eminem due to the lyrical content. Appearing on “Larry King Live” in December 2002, Carey categorically stated they never dated. She said: “I hung out with him. I spoke to him on the phone. I think I was probably with him a total of four times. And I don’t consider that dating somebody.”
This didn’t stop Eminem, though, as he continued to throw around Carey’s name in his tracks for years — even bringing her then-husband Nick Cannon into the fold. There were rumors that Carey would address the rapper in her memoir, “The Meaning of Mariah Carey”; however, Eminem didn’t feature at all. As Carey told Vulture: “If somebody or something didn’t pertain to the actual meaning of Mariah Carey, as is the title, then they aren’t in the book.”
