You need to see it in full to completely understand. Nicki said she disagreed with Keith and Mariah while she was about to start her critique Mariah (who already gave her critique) butted in unnecessarily. Mariah definitely tried to initiate a fight here
She actually had such a nice moment with Mariah later on where she talked about her experience listening to the Mariah + Whitney duet and Mariah looked over at Nick and they had a moment of acknowledgement. So it's not like there is all this drama all the time.