Wednesday 27 April 2005

Mariah's Star turn bedevils Miss Jones

Mariah Carey ignited a minidrama at hip-hop radio yesterday morning when she apparently stood up Hot-97 for a long chat with Star over at rival Power-105. Miss Jones and the WQHT (97.1 FM) team, unsurprisingly, were furious, calling Carey and her people unprofessional along with a number of less complimentary names.

The drama started a little after 6 am, when Miss Jones and her team said Carey would be coming on the show live. Over on WWPR (105.1 FM), meanwhile, Star was saying that he and his team don't need guests, that they have enough to say without them.

Around 8 am, though, Carey came on with Star, kicking off an extended, cordial chat during which Carey seemed to enjoy sparring as Star periodically tried to coax her into saying indiscreet things. She declined, for instance, to flat-out say whether she would sing a duet with Jennifer Lopez. She said she had been "counted out" enough times that she feels she needs to be "more generous" toward others.

There was no official explanation why Carey went to Power. The team at Hot first said she had been delayed, then finally acknowledged she wasn't showing. One reason she may have gone to Star is that he raved on the air recently about her comeback CD, "The Emancipation of Mimi" - which got mixed reviews, but topped the charts last week.

In any case, Star's team was not concerned about the reason she was there. "Needless to say," said Star's sidekick Crossover Negro Reese Hopkins after the show, "the Star and Buc Wild interview with Ms. Carey was a success."

(New York Daily News)



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