Mariah the Scientist Speaks on Dating Lil Yachty When She Was Younger, Says He Refused to Listen to Her Music

On the latest episode of Yung Miami's interview series Caresha Please, the rapper sat down for a conversation with Mariah the Scientist, who opened up about dating Lil Yachty when she was younger.

"Did you date Lil Yachty?" Miami asked Mariah around the 36-minute point of the episode, as seen above. "And is he the ex that you refer to when you was like, 'I made a song in college and I was scared to send it to this particular person because I didn't want to be embarrassed,' or whatever it was? Is that the ex?"

After letting out a laugh and pausing for a moment, Mariah confirmed, "We dated." When pressed for more information about her previous comments about being "embarrassed" to send a song to him, she explained their history and what went down.

"The story goes like this, I was in college... I met him in high school, though by the time I got to college we started dating a little bit or whatever and I felt his career was taking off and he had all these things.... I didn't know what to do, like, or what I could give him, 'cause I was just a broke college student. So I thought, 'Well, he likes music, I like music, let me make him a song.' And so that's what I did, I made him two different songs and I put them on the iPod and I gifted it to him. I signed the back, it was real cute."

When he received the iPod with the tracks, she said he told her that he didn't want to listen to her music. "He told me he did not want to listen to it because he didn't want to shit on me," she shared. "He said, 'I don't want to Joan you, so I'm not listening to that shit.' And 'Joan' means, rank... shit on you. At the time, I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt... Like, you make music so you feel like maybe this is stepping on your toes, people around you be trying to do shit like that, and maybe you felt like I was trying to infringe on that area of your life."

After that interaction, she said that she never brought it up again. But later, two of her friends encouraged her to pursue music further after listening to the tracks. "I was just like, 'I don't know, I don't want to make him feel no type of way.' And they were like, 'We're telling you as your friends, explore that,'" she said.

The Atlanta native has been in a relationship with Young Thug since at least 2021, and she has remained supportive as his trial becomes the longest in Georgia history. She recently took to Instagram Live to vent her frustrations after she was unable to visit him on their third anniversary earlier this month. Earlier this week, he appeared in court with a hoodie that read, "I love Mariah."