Meaning
Gossip, meddling, and drama — being caught up in other people's business and scandal. Someone who loves 'mix-up' loves stirring and spreading talk, carrying news from one to another and delighting in trouble, and 'mix-up an blenda' (gossip and stirring the pot) names the whole busybody art of making and spreading scandal. In a culture wary of the news-carrier and the meddler, 'mix-up' is a real fault, and to be 'inna mix-up' is to be tangled in the tale-bearing and quarrels that gossip breeds.
Examples
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She love mix-up an blenda.
She loves gossip and stirring up drama.
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Mi nuh inna nuh mix-up.
I'm not part of any drama.
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Dat office full a mix-up.
That office is full of gossip and intrigue.
Origin
From English 'mix up' (to confuse or entangle), turned in Jamaican into a noun for gossip and social entanglement.
How it’s used
Disapproving, for talk and meddling that stir up conflict. 'Blenda' (blender) is often paired with it, for someone who blends and spreads the gossip.