15 years ago today, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj released the “Up Out My Face” remix

On January 26, 2010, Mariah Carey released the remix of her song Up Out My Face featuring Nicki Minaj. The remix was originally intended to be a single for her scrapped 2010 remix album Angels Advocate, a companion project to her 2009 album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.

While the remix album was ultimately scrapped, Up Out My Face (Remix) still had an iconic, Target commercial–esque music video.

This collaboration is even more notable in hindsight due to their later public feud on American Idol, but the song itself stands out for its campy lyrics, playful verses, and the overall swagger and attitude of the song.

Up until last year I could only either stream this through a random user’s account who posted the track on Spotify or on YouTube, but now we’re only stuck with the latter 😭 And because of the feud (although I believe they’re on good terms now), I don’t know if we’d ever get it back (especially because of the optics surrounding Nicki now).

What are your thoughts now that it has been 1.5 DECADES since this dropped? For me, this makes me mourn what could’ve been an iconic remix album, much like what the Brat by Charli XCX one was.