Money

Album: Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • Over a thumping Hit-Boy beat, this song finds Mariah singing about how money isn't that important to her. "He is a favorite of mine," Carey told MTV News of Hit-Boy (Kanye West and Jay Z's "Niggas in Paris"). "We really got it together and had philosophical conversations about music in general."
  • Mariah is joined by rapper Fabolous on this anti-materialistic R&B jam.
  • This appears on Carey's 14th studio album, Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse, which was her last release via Def Jam. She executive produced the album with her longtime collaborators Bryan-Michael Cox ("Shake It Off") and Jermaine Dupri ("Always Be My Baby," "We Belong Together").

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