Nicki Minaj Loved Making ‘Up Out My Face’ Video With Mariah Carey
Mon, Feb 8, 2010
Nicki Minaj says she was so surprised that she got a call to work with Mariah Carey on the remix of “Up Out My Face” that she kept the collaboration very hush-hush.
“That one, I didn’t believe until I was physically in the studio that I was doing with something with Mariah,” the New York native told MTV News last week. “I didn’t even tell anyone I shot a video with Mariah, because I didn’t even believe. In the back of my mind, I felt like, ‘This video is not gonna come out. There’s no way I’m gonna do a video with Mariah Carey before I even put out my album.’ Then, when it came out, I think it was the #1 video on YouTube in one day, something crazy like that. She’s an icon, I’ve loved her since I was little, like ‘Vision of Love,’ ‘Someday.’ I was one of those little girls in the mirror singing her songs with my mother.”
Much like her fellow Mariah Carey collaborator and good friend Gucci Mane, Minaj said the real Mariah was nothing like she imagined.
“When I met her, she was so funny and silly,” Nicki recalled. “I thought when I was gonna work with Mariah, [she] was gonna be like this diva. But we were cracking jokes the whole day. She’s a sweet, down-to-earth person.”
Nicki and Mimi had their names written on two giant baby doll boxes in the video. In the Nick Cannon-directed clip, the two bust out and have a good time changing outfits and playing with men. The doll angle plays perfectly with Nicki’s “black Barbie” persona.
“I think it was dope,” Minaj said about the video. “A lot of times, more famous artists or more confident artists take from a younger artist but they’ll never include you in that. I feel like she liked the whole doll thing and she wanted to do it with me. But she said that: She said, ‘Everybody’s gonna say “she’s doing Nicki.” But I told her, she’s always had a doll persona, like all that ‘doll baby’ [stuff]. So it goes perfect with Barbie and we had fun. That’s all that matters.”
The remix will appear on Mariah’s Angels Advocate remix LP, due on March 30.
Source: MTV News
February 8th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
It was a cute video. You could tell they were having fun and really liked each other. Hope they collaborate more in the future.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Any updates on uomf and ac?
February 8th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I continually find it refreshing to note that younger, emerging artists cite Mariah as an influence on their craft even when her detractors, which includes some critics and Billboard reviewers, try to imply that MC has made no indelible impact on music.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
@ marc
Those critics are bullshitters cuz if it wasnt for whitney or mariah we would have no beyonce, no christina, kelly, leona, alexandra burke, no jordin sparks or Rihanna
February 8th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Is there anyone who could create a webpage with all the links to the places where we can vote for and stream the videos? Sorry, I am not very computer savvy. Mariahdaily usually does that but they still have the ad for the tour up…
February 8th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
UOMF:
URBAN
Mediabase Feb 1 – Feb 7
Urban Chart: #33 (Last Week: #46)
+269 spins, 3.218 million impressions
#4 Most Added +306 spins, 46 stations playing
#26 Taking Off +1 new station with 12 new spins
RHYTHMIC
Mediabase Feb 1 – Feb 7
Rhythmic Chart: #47 (Last Week: #59)
+218 spins, 2.616 million impressions
#10 Most Added +224 spins, 36 stations playing
#5 Taking off +3 new stations with 73 new spins
Angels Cry:
#36 Most Added +8 spins, 4 stations playing
[”Angels Cry” officially impacts Mainstream AC radio today, Feb. 8]
Urban AC Chart: #34 (Last Week: #37)
+31 spins, 1.079 million impressions
#26 Most Added +29 spins, 30 stations playing
February 8th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Mariah daily has the numbers and sites up now on their home page… request request request!
February 8th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
It’s really easy to request from Mariah Daily, they have the online link and all you have to do is check off either ‘Up Out My Face’ or ‘Angels Cry’.
They also have phone numbers if you are in the town to call.
But also, by getting the video on BET’s 106 & Park countdown we allow more people to be exposed to it and then they can help us vote. So let’s do it!
February 9th, 2010 at 12:38 am
OMG
100% onItunes
download
February 9th, 2010 at 6:21 am
I just voted for Up out my face and Angels cry at all the links Mariah daily have posted. It doesn’t take long and now at least i know that i’ve done my part to help Mariah.
If you can, call your local stations too, it makes a difference.
February 9th, 2010 at 7:01 am
I’ve requested to all the stations posted both UOMF and AC!!
February 9th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Ok, thanks guys. Just votes and streamed.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Nikki,
What are you talking about?