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WATCH: Nicki Minaj Curses Out, Threatens Mariah Carey at American Idol Audition

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Tension heated up at “American Idol” auditions in North Carolina on Tuesday when Nicki Minaj reportedly threatened to “knock out” fellow judge Mariah Carey.

The two judges, who have previously downplayed reports of a feud, got into it while taping in Charlotte.

In the video below, Minaj can be heard saying, “I told them, I’m not f**king with her f**kin’ highness over there.”

She later allegedly threatened to Carey, “I’m gonna knock you out,” according to TMZ.

A disagreement over an audition is said to have caused the dispute, and the argument was reportedly major enough to cause production to shut down for the rest of the day.

Gossip Cop has reached out to reps for Minaj and Carey, but has yet to hear back.

After the story broke, Carey tweeted, “whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.”

A rep for Fox had no comment.

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  • Matt

    I don’t blame her Mariah Carey is a huge ass drama queen and bitch. I’m glad she told her about herself. I’m not a huge fan of either but one thing is true. Nicki is a rapper and don’t mind speaking her mind.

  • enough

    Do they truly think this is going to make people watch? I want to see the contestants sing not watch the judges fight…I think there’s already a reality show like that. Im so over this show, enough already.

  • Regina1180

    These are grown woman acting like this?

    More of a reason NOT to watch.

  • http://www.facebook.com/SwansongBonnie Bonnie Anne Hudson Pinard

    The producers are stooping to the level of Beverly Hills Housewives. This will be the first year since the first season that I will not watch American Idol.

  • http://twitter.com/luv70s ☆Krysta☆ Mae☆

    Mariah was asking ‘why’ did AI hire Nicki. This should be interesting!

  • Denese Christian

    absolutely, Matt; MC needs to go back under whatever rock she is from; Nicki is real talent and can judge!

  • just saying

    well wasn’t that a fun day Both are diva’s.. lol Keith leave NOW!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1553276322 Tracy Wesson-Isham

    you’re kidding right?? they brought trash onto this show. a classless hood rat like Nicki Minaj. what did they expect to happen??

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1553276322 Tracy Wesson-Isham

    that is what happens when you bring a classless hood rat rapper on a show. DRAMA!! have you heard her lyrics in her songs?? pure trash.

  • guest

    lmao. EVERYONE knew this was going to happen. poor keith, stuck in the middle of that bitch storm.

  • http://twitter.com/kylew1973 Kiwi73

    Ghetto trash.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2WZA4ODFNW7NYU2KAIWEEF52SQ Douglas

    So they sign some has-beens to “judge” a group of largely no-talent contestants. People really watch this stuff?

  • Kaitlyn

    Haha, Nicki is an asshole. That’s what happens when you give stupid people power. I still don’t understand how she is famous.

  • George

    Nicki has talent over Mariah? Ok. Whatever you want to believe. Nicki doesn’t even come close to be a good rapper compared to others that are around. Nicki has no class, you can’t get it by making money.

  • Matt

    Takes a good rat to know one. Please stop recycling your comments . It’s pathetic

  • Matt

    Did I say she more talent bitch? No learn to god damn read.

  • RealLoveNotMadeInForks

    Racist

  • Sof

    I don’t have anything against Nicki…but regardless of what could have happened, that’s just not the way anybody should behave. There’s a thing call “being a professional” and I think a LOT of singers/actors/artists in general are lacking in that department. They are tghe most priviledged people in the world and they still act like they can do whatever they want to do. Let’s say that happens at an office, what do you think would happen to the worker cursing out and screaming like there´s no tomorrow? I guess class and values and education are overrated these days

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=520200340 Hector V Lopez

    Oh please! Nicki is a confrontational low class bitch. She needs to stick to making her grotesque twitching and fast talking. That shit is not rapping and neither is lil wayne and drake. They’re all trash. Mariah can sing at least even if she is a diva. It seems that Nicki is the only one out of place on that judge panel and she is gonna fuck up an already lame ass show.

  • Anonymous

    Nikki is totally out of line here and is just acting totally unprofessional, she needs to stop being so ghetto.

  • Lori

    How come anyone who says anything about a black woman is labeled a racist? Her actions prompted the comment above, not her damn complexion. You are the one making it about race. Racist.

  • Me

    Keith Urban’s “Oh why me?” I feel sorry for him stuck in the middle of that.

  • me2012

    hmmm, mariash does act like she is “fragile, handle me with kids gloves” personna, she needs to realize that there are TWO very talented singers on the panel, get a grip. really both of them need to get a grip, and yaeh, nicky should handle herself with more professionalizm

  • jimmy

    “a classless hood rat” isnt racist? shut the h*ll up Lori & Tracy! Weak a$@ cyber critics.

  • Guest

    Dude, you need to learn some correct grammar before you start making comments about other people’s ability to read.

  • Anonymous

    Regardless of who’s right, we don’t know because none of us were there, it was uncalled for and unprofessional to blow up the way she did. Besides, this was all for ratings anyways. Mariah clearly didn’t want Nicki there and showed it by allegedly hanging up when they told her she was being added. If there was obvious tension before, why would you sign her? Mariah was signed on first, so Nicki shouldn’t have been added to the judges panel to begin with. It didn’t work with two women on the panel when Kara Dioguardi was added & it’s not going to work now.
    I was excited to see Mariah Carey as a judge, but I think I’ll stick with X-Factor and The Voice. American Idol is a joke and is going to extreme measures to keep an audience.

  • Anonymous

    Despite Mariah Carey being known as difficult to work with, Nicki Minaj acted completely unprofessional and like a child here. Not that I was going to watch anyway, but this won’t help earning viewers.

  • Me

    Niki you just lost a fan. But you probably don’t care because you like NeNe now….rich bitch. I am SOOOooooo disgusted, Mariah just be happy you had a mother who taught you how to be a woman. Niki’s gonna wish she didn’t have that moment…for life…for life.

  • Rose

    How can anybody else have a turn to ‘judge anything,’ if one panelist screams louder than the rest? It becomes all about who has the loudest and most profane bellow rather than judging anything or anyone. Don’t dare disagree or you’ll be cussed out. I do not understand the mentality of ‘out-screaming’ as a way to prove your point. It just makes one look ‘mental.’ Nobody should have to put up with such low ‘self-control.’

  • Lori

    Are you implying that only black people live in the hood? Racist.

  • Anonymous

    lol… this isn’t shocking. i knew from the beginning that this was gonna happen. they are both divas, i honestly don’t even get why nicki is a judge.

  • Anonymous

    i honestly couldn’t even keep up with the words that was coming out of her mouth.

  • Beyond Skin Color

    I’m black and I agree with you 100%. American Idol is a show for all races and, to me, has always been well balanced. Nicki is acting trashy so she does not belong there. It is not about her race, it’s her attitude! She needs to go!

  • do

    Can we say she is GHETTO …what a turd

  • Kelly

    I am not a fan of either one in particular but this is probably only a partial of the entire dispute. Mariah I heard is very difficult to deal with also so we should not assume that this is all Nicki Minaj’s fault.

  • guest1979

    trashy looking people spew trash out their mouth like water over niagara falls
    remember you can’t buy class no matter what color your hair is

  • http://www.facebook.com/courtney.puzzo Courtney Puzzo

    it’s called staged for television Mariah & Nicki have been friends since Nicki appeared on one of Mariah’s remixes 3 years ago.

  • Fan

    Nicki was wrong yes. but please Mariah is no better she thinks she is a princess and that people should bow to her. She is a DIVA , FAKE and PLASTIC. At least with Nicki she keeps it real.

  • guest89

    i think mariah’s diva status came from when she was maried to tommy m–her first husband–he told her she was great,beautiful, etc..and she got used to that and now she demands it….tommy was older than she was and now she married nick who is younger than she is who she can tell to say and do what she wants just to keep the peace…..what does nick do anyway?

  • MC LAMB 0890

    Mariah is a legend. She set the standard for what makes a great singer! Her career is 22 years old! Who’s Nicki Minaj, a new rapper that just came out and tries to sing, to have better qualified opinions regarding singing than Mariah? That’s what must make Mariah pissed. Nicki looks like the ghetto thug she represents herself as by reacting that way. Keith and Randy obviously think she’s crazy. Randy will always stick by Mariah he’s known and worked with her forever. Im glad he stood up and had her back, and proceded to take Mariah away from that bullshit.

  • Jen

    Clearly you listen to hillbilly

  • Matt

    Waiting for a fuck to give about your stupid ass opinion.

  • Matt

    Dude you need to mind your own business and realize that saying Dude is incorrect grammar as well. NOONE asked for your opinion.

  • Julie

    Nicki is a wannabe “gangster”. They should have never hired her. She can’t sing, her rapping is awful and Mariah is the one with real voice talent.

  • Satine86

    Why did they need 4 judges? It did not work in the past. I would have loved to have seen Nicki or Mariah separately but together, they knew this was going to happen. I have a feeling for the first few shows the ratings may be up but afterwards it will go down, they will not receive the numbers or ratings they have in the past.. Learn from the past, it is not about the judges, it is the contestants. I am skipping the auditions all together and just watch the show once they select the contestants going through, but if there is this constant in fighting diva against diva, forget it, there are enough Housewives of whatever city with their spats that we do not need to see it on American Idol.

  • Heidi

    I have to give this one to Mariah, they both are divas but nicki took it to a whole other level, very unprofessional and Ryan needs to wash her mouth out with soap for her vulgar language!

  • http://www.facebook.com/louise.hernan Louise Hernan

    The producers let this happen for ratings – they better undo it before someone gets seriously hurt!!

  • Kaylee

    This is what happens when low class, ghetto trash is hired for a wholesome TV show. I certainly will not watch this. I’ll stick to the Voice and X Factor. They only have one black on the show.

  • http://twitter.com/tRUElyIFY_ QUIET Storm

    Some of yall are crazy….. YESS!! Nicki Minaj was very unproffesional with her approach to Mariah Carey but do you fuckin blame her??…. how would you react if you heard some legend call you a bitch??… somebody probably Nicki use to grow up listening to…… and for what?? because she doesn’t think you are qualified to be a judge because you don’t have experience in the singing department?? that surely doesn’t give Mariah the right to judge her based off of that…and somebody can only take so much from a person….plus Mariah was being disrespectful talking over her while Nicki was giving her opinion about the contestants….dont sit here and say Mariah is hard to work with anyway and that makes it okay for her to say anything she wants about Nicki…look at it from both sides,,,,,this does not make Nicki dumb stupid, unqualified or “classless”… lmfao… it just made her look unproffesional for the time being and that is it!!…. Nicki was just being nice up to this point and i still think she was still being nice to her by cussin her out… call me a bitch and you’ll get slapped….

  • http://twitter.com/tRUElyIFY_ QUIET Storm

    what i wanna know why are they beefing as if they are complete strangers to each other knowing how each other is….. they did a song together…

  • Anonymous

    Typical Ghetto Garbage, Get her off the show or Im sure you are going to lose viewers, you need Miriah, you dont need that nut!

  • Anonymous

    This woman is NOT a star, why is she even on that show?????????? I for one will not watch it now because I dont want to see the drama Im sure she will bring every week.

  • Anonymous

    PS there is NO racist about it, she is classless and should go back to where her drama is socially accepeted and let the real stars be on the real shows. Give her a reality show, Im sure she will have a lot of followers.

  • Jada Berry

    because she is fucking talented u fucking dickwad bitch

  • Alyssana

    Nicki Minaj is a trash. She is no talented, she has no voice, undereducated, unbelievably dumb, looks like a homeless whore and she is a disgusting fat cow…… So it is not a big suprise she made a scene. How can she be a judge at all????

  • saba

    nicki is not the first and wont be the last to call Mariah a bi%ch. There is a fine line between being a diva and a %itch

  • T.I.T.L.

    We wouLd love to see that GHETTO-TRASh go.Miriah has more talent and true Character in her littlefinger, than N.MiNasTy hAve in her whole made over entire Body and face

  • JEM

    Na…Jada….she isn’t….and if you can’t use the many words in the English language to voice your being upset without hurling childish insults at people that don’t agree with you then you are pretty much as stupid as Nicki is.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you. Nicki should have excused herself and walked out, not blown up. That made her look bad, not Mariah.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I’m wondering, when did this all start since Nicki was on Mariah’s song. This is the first time I’m hearing of tension between them two.
    Besides, I still think she was added for ratings. If MC didn’t feel comfortable with her there(since she was signed on first), why put her there? The producers needed higher ratings and used this tension for that purpose. Now people will watch to see if there was anything that will be showed when it airs.

  • Mr Sir

    They both need to grow up and act professionally.

  • Ulthea

    Since when does hood rat imply colour? Jog on. Minaj is a talent-less and tacky idiot, whose small mind shone through in this instance, just as it does in her lyrics and inability to sing well.

  • ulthea

    “If I had a dick, I would pull it out and piss on them”

    Oh yeah, she’s super talented. /end sarcasm

  • Mia

    better said….impossible!

  • jenny

    SO agree with you! ive never sit before to watch and im not going this year. i was plannig to do it because of Mariah, but if that nicki stays in….im out! last year i didnt bc of J.Lopez….

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I was thinking. There was no rumors of them not liking each other before, so why now? Why add two people who clearly don’t like each other on the same judges panel? This was all for ratings, nothing more.

  • Realness

    Unfortunately, this is what REAL racists do when faced with the truth. Call anyone whose opinion differs from theirs a racist. Tanya Maraj or whatever she calls herself is a no talent cotton candy-headed cartoon character. Whyyyyyyy indeed do the producers of these shows continue to place as “judges” people who can’t sing? Most recently J Lopez for example. Please. If it weren’t for autotune these trolls wouldn’t have careers. This immature outburst just proves that this newest troll is obviously jealous of the very talented singer that Carey is and has been for a long time.

  • Realness

    Thank you, Kaylee, for pointing out to us how simple the typical racist mind is. No, really, thank you. You probably won’t understand this post, but thank you.

  • Lenn

    Talented? Damn you must be deaf as fuck. She can’t sing for shit

  • Jennifer

    Why would they even hire Minaj in the first place? It’s a mystery to me. She’s appalling on just about every level – talentlessness to lack of class and everything in between. I guess Idol has jumped the shark so badly at this point that they are reduced to relying on trashy drama to try to recoup their dwindling ratings.
    Good luck with that, Nigel. We haven’t watched since the first part of JLo’s first season. It’s boring and there are now just too many of these talent shows out there. It’s lost it’s allure for us.

  • Michael

    Fail. She is a RAPPER not a singer

  • Jim

    Was her mouth out? She’s a grown woman not a kid

  • Lilly

    Carey leave my girl Nicki alone! She is amazing!! Btw not be rude to me people I’m only 10

  • Lilly

    Carey leave my girl Nicki alone! I’m a barbie and Idc! Btw DONT yell at me I’m just a kid people! And It doesn’t matter what you think its my opinion!

  • J

    I will not watch American Idol this year. Fox has decided that making the judges more controversial is more important than the talent. Nicki Minaj is a mildly talented freakshow, Mariah Carey is an emotionally unstable, aging egomaniac, Keith Urban is a recovering addict desperately needing to boost his career and Randy Jackson just stayed for the money. The talent is now irrelevant. Move to cable and start cursing and fist fighting; it is the logical next step for this tabloid reality train wreck of a show.

  • Idolfan

    Well said!
    I love watching Idol but i will be recording it so i can just watch the contestents.
    another thing… im not a huge Nicki fan but i dont get why almost everyone here is saying she is talent-less and not a star…hello have you not seen the charts or the AMAs?

  • Shep

    Guys, I’m pretty sure Nikki Minaj (and everyone who enjoys her music) may actually be a kind of mental handicap. Don’t be to hard on her or her followers, they don’t know any better. Take Jada Berry for example; clearly she needs help.

  • Shep

    Guys, I’m pretty sure Nikki Minaj and everyone who listens to her music may be mentally handicapped. Don’t be too hard on her or her followers, they don’t know any better. Take Jada Berry for example; clearly the poor girl needs help.

  • Bass

    You know its bad when you type hood rat into your search engine and Niki Manaj comes up.

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