Da Brat Recalls Almost Getting Jermaine Dupri Killed After Sneaking Mariah Carey Out for Fast Food

Da Brat has recalled an incident when she unknowingly took Mariah Carey out to get fast food and almost landed Jermaine Dupri in some serious trouble.

In a recent episode of the We Sound Crazy podcast, the Chicago rapper opened up about the wild and tense moment from the ’90s involving the pop icon and Dupri which could have ended much worse than anyone expected.

Carey, who at the time was married to Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola, was living under intense surveillance and control in what she later described in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey as a “Sing Sing”-like home, referencing the notorious maximum-security prison in New York.

Eager to escape the confines of her heavily guarded estate for a taste of normalcy, she had Da Brat help her. According to the “Funkdafied” rapper, Carey mentioned wanting fast food, and so she, not realizing the full extent of the singer’s confinement, offered to take her.

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“She wanted to get some McDonald’s or Burger King or something and I was like, ‘Ok,'” Da Brat recalled around the 22:54 mark in the video above. “She showed me her fleet of cars and I was like, ‘Oh these are yours? Then let’s go!'”

She continued: “Man, I didn’t know we was going to be getting called to come back and guns is gonna be drawn where JD was at and get our asses back and I’m like, ‘We going to Burger King it’s like a mile up the street.’

“She was under lock and key. I had never witnessed anything like that I’m just being my normal self going to Burger King wild’n out, jumping on all the cars, smoking weed, drinking, having a good time, just talking shit.”

The situation quickly escalated as back at the studio, Jermaine Dupri, who was Da Brat’s mentor and producer, was allegedly met with drawn guns and frantic demands for the pair to return immediately. Since Da Brat was his artist, he was held accountable for her actions, despite having no knowledge of the impromptu outing.

Da Brat went on to share that Carey’s home was wired with surveillance, including hidden cameras in the walls. At times, Carey would whisper warnings to keep quiet or stop having fun, fearing repercussions. Security would intervene if she so much as smiled or laughed too loudly.

In her memoir, Carey recalled that Dupri was visibly shaken when they returned, realizing just how close they had come to a dangerous confrontation. The episode underscored how tightly Carey was being controlled during her marriage to Mottola, a time she has since described as emotionally suffocating.

The anecdote shines a stark light on the extreme limitations Carey faced in her personal life during the peak of her early fame, and the very real risks others unknowingly took by simply trying to bring her some fun.

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