Key Takeaways:

• Muni Long’s viral “Delulu” skits featured a Mariah Carey look-alike, sparking fan backlash on-line.
• She addressed the controversy on Instagram, saying she meant no disrespect.
• The skit referenced Carey’s earlier remark about not liking others performing her songs.

Muni Long virtually had us there. On Monday (Nov. 24), the “Made For Me” singer responded to claims on social media insisting she disrespected Mariah Carey in two skits selling “Delulu.”

In one video shared on her socials, a Carey look-alike — aka Miss MC — supplied to grace Long with a rendition of the track, which initially dropped in October. “Oh, please, it would be my pleasure,” the Revenge artist stated.

After giving Long some unsolicited recommendation about how she ought to carry out the file, Miss MC made her exit, saying she wasn’t “getting paid enough to be” there. Moments later, Long acknowledged, “I just don’t like when other people sing my songs,” cleverly referencing Carey’s earlier feedback concerning the “Hrs & Hrs” hitmaker performing “We Belong Together” on the music-awards-gave-hip-hop-and-rnb-their-flowers”>2025 iHeartRadio music Awards.

“I’m very honored and flattered that she did it,” Carey informed GQ in September. “I love Muni Long, she’s a great person, umm, but I just don’t like people doing my songs.”

In the second skit, Long reacted to Miss MC displaying up at her rehearsal. “Man, can y’all believe MC came to my rehearsal today? ’Cause I’m that girl,” she stated. The Carey lookalike then appeared behind her and added, “I’m that girl, but we love everyone,” earlier than giving her a plauful push.

Fans thought it’d’ve been shade towards Carey, however Long shortly shut that down. “Y’all don’t be delulu,” she wrote by way of Instagram Stories. “I would never disrespect Queen Mariah!!!!!! Forever a Lamb.”

Long and Carey beforehand collaborated on “Made For Me (Remix).” In her aforementioned dialog with GQ, the five-time Grammy winner stated, “When Muni had her song, and I added my verse, I was into it. I really liked it. I remember exactly where I was when I was writing it. I loved it.”

In associated information, Long teamed up with LUDMILLA on “Tudo Igual” and Zara Larsson on “Midnight Sun” earlier this month.