Mariah Carey has been known for years for one of the most iconic moments of gossip-shade in the recent history of celebrity beefs. Mariah has always (ALWAYS) hated Jennifer Lopez with a fiery passion. I forget the complete basis of the hatred, but it involved J.Lo’s singing career and Mariah’s ex-husband Tommy Mottola. Years ago, when asked point-blank about Jennifer Lopez, Mariah took a dramatic pause and said flatly, “I don’t know her.” And nothing more. So much shade in four little words.

Well, Mariah appeared on Watch What Happens Live last night and of course Andy Cohen had to press Mariah on her long-standing hatred of J.Lo AND Nicki Minaj. The reaction was predictably… Peak Mariah. Also, Mariah made Andy wait… for a live show! And she made him switch seats so that the camera would get her good side.

“Do you know each other?” asked Cohen, of Carey and Lopez, after the Latino stunner told Wendy Williams last week that they have, in fact, met “many times.”

“No!” replied Carey. “She says you know her,” pushed Cohen.

“You know what, I’m very forgetful,” Carey answered. “Apparently I’m forgetful, because I don’t remember the fact that it was just like, ‘Hi, I’m so-and-so,’ and then move on.”

“Does she seem cool?” pressed Cohen. Cue one of Carey’s big pauses! “I don’t know her, what am I supposed to say?” she responded, eventually.

Next in the firing line was Nicki Minaj, with whom Carey famously feuded with during her time on American Idol.

“Can you say three nice things about Nicki Minaj?” asked Cohen during a game of ‘Plead the Fifth.’

“Can you?” replied Carey. After another long pause, she skirted the issue. “You know, I always thought it was more important with that situation to not plead the fifth, but to just stay above the fray,” she explained. “Because you don’t want to be déclassé. You just want to move it along.”

But while Lopez and Minaj were clearly not on Carey’s BFF list, Britney Spears and Beyoncé faired a lot better. “We were at the MTV awards years ago and we had a whole conversation,” Carey said of Spears. “She was just a really nice girl.” And Beyoncé? “I love Beyoncé, I would love to do a collaboration with her,” she added.

[From Us Weekly]

I’m including the videos below. I’m still reading shade about Jennifer Lopez, although Mariah does do some work to try to come across as less bitchy than before, and kudos to Andy Cohen for really pressing her on it. But yeah, Mariah hates J.Lo. But she really, really dislikes Nicki Minaj.

Here’s the J.Lo part.

Here’s Mariah’s shade on Nicki Minaj, plus some stuff about Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.