If there’s one vital lesson the music world has taught us over the years, it’s don’t mess withNicki Minaj.
The rapper has cemented herself as a wig-loving, expletive-laden-lyric-delivering, no-nonsense force to be reckoned with. So, naturally, she’s had her fair share of feuds with other celebs.
The “Barbie Dreams” rapper has sparred with the likes ofMiley Cyrus,Taylor Swift,Mariah Careyand more.
However, in April 2016, Minaj toldEllen DeGeneresthat sheregrets her past feudswith fellow stars, saying, “I’m a sweet person, and I don’t wanna be mean to people.” Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped Minaj from carrying on the occasional feud.
Here is a list of stars who’ve found themselves on the rapper’s bad side.
Cardi B
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Thefirst hints of tensionbetween the pair began in the spring of 2017 when Minaj appeared to “like” a fan’s Instagram comment dismissing one ofCardi B’s rap verses. Things began to escalate the following summer after Cardi’s breakout single “Bodak Yellow” topped the charts and she signed with Atlantic Records.
Rumors of a feud continued to swirl as Minaj and Cardi offered guest vocals on various singles that could be construed as shade at the other — but both denied there was any bad blood.
“I mean, I don’t really want problems with anybody,” Cardi toldBillboardin August 2017. “I don’t really got to do that whole industry beef.”
According to Minaj, the real beef began when they teamed up with Migos on “MotorSport” in October 2017. At the time, Cardi said in an interview that some lines in the track were changed last-minute before its release.
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“The only thing with Cardi that really, really, really hurt my feelings was the first interview she did after ‘MotorSport’ came out,” Minaj said in a Beats 1 radio interview in April 2018. “The first interview she did after ‘MotorSport’ came out, it just really hurt me. She looked so aggravated and angry and the only thing she said was, ‘Oh, I didn’t hear that. I didn’t hear that verse.’ I was like, what?”
A month later, the beef appeared to be squashed when Cardi and Minaj werephotographed having what looked like a heart-to-heartat the Met Gala.
“I never was feuding with anybody; there was a misunderstanding,” Cardi later told Howard Stern of the meeting. “It’s just something that had to be talked about because it was an issue.”
Their tiff reignited in August 2018 when Minaj addressed Cardi on her Beats 1Queen Radioshow.
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“I didn’t know Cardi and I had an issue. To me, she may have taken an issue with things that I’ve said, but I’m not going to bite my tongue,” Minaj said. “You gotta have thick skin. People talk s— about me all the time. I don’t go around and tell people to stop posting me because I see one bad thing about myself.”
Shortly after, Cardi revealed that someone — seemingly Minaj — had blocked her on Twitter.
Then, Cardi and Minaj’s cold war finally boiled over into an all-outphysical altercation atHarper’s Bazaar’s ICONS partyin N.Y.C. on Sept. 7, 2018. While the source said it initially looked like Cardi and Minaj “might hug it out” inside the party, suddenly “it all went down.”
“Cardi walked towards Nicki and all of a sudden Cardi started screaming something about her child. She was yelling, ‘Bitch you feisty. Bitch don’t talk s— about my child’ at Nicki,” the source recalled about Cardi, who is mom to daughterKulture Kiariwith husbandOffset.
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“She left barefoot with her dress ripped and butt out,” the source said.
On Sept. 10, 2018, Minajaddressed the altercation on herQueenRadioshow: “The other night I was part of somethingso mortifying and so humiliatingto go through in front of a bunch upper echelon people who have their life together. I was in a Gaultier gown — off the motherf—— runway — and I could not believe how humiliated we all felt.” Minaj also went on to deny that she had ever spoken ill of Cardi’s infant daughter.
Remy Ma
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Minaj and Terror Squad rapperRemy Mahave beenfeuding for years— Minaj supposedly dissed Remy Ma on her track “Dirty Money” off a 2007 EP, in which she raps, “Tell that bitch with the crown to run it like Chris Brown” while sampling one of Ma’s Terror Squad songs, “Yeah Yeah Yeah.” Their rivalry reached another level in February 2017 when Ma dropped “ShETHER,” a 7-minute long diss track in which she accused Minaj of everything from infidelity to getting plastic surgery, which promptly set the Internet on fire and blew up the charts.
She added a challenge to Remy Ma, too: “Now I got a countdown of my own for Sheneneh. You got 72 hours to drop a hit and I’ll give you half a million dollars if you can book ANY show or interview without mentioning the Queen name.”
Just as the bitter war of bars began to die down, both rappers fueled the feud fire in separate performances in June 2017.
At the BET Awards, Remy Ma took a shot at her rap rival as she took home the award for best female hip hop artist.
“Y’all bitches got fat while we starved / Shots in your ass, pads in your bras,” she rapped on stage. “Y’all some liars / It ain’t no facts in your songs / And yeah, that crown is coming back to the Bronx.”
Meanwhile, Minaj teamed up with 2 Chainz to perform their collab “Realize,” in which the superstar didn’t hold back when firing out her verse during the inauguralNBA Awards.
“You dude wrote an ether record / but I broke Aretha record,” Minaj rapped on stage.
Taylor Swift
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Swift, who was the only female to receive a nomination in that category, responded to Minaj’s tweet, accusing the star of pitting “women against each other.”
Minaj noted that she made no mention of the “Style” singer, and Swift soon called a truce in a follow-up post, writing, “If I win, please come up with me!!” (Swift ended up taking home the award.)
The “Blank Space” singer latertweeted an apologyto the rap star, writing that she “missed the point” of Minaj’s tweets.
The two seemed to put all the “Bad Blood” behind them when Swift joined Minaj on the VMA stage in a show-stopping performance.
It appeared the feud might spark again in 2017 after Minaj appeared as a featured guest on one-time Swift frenemyKaty Perry’s single “Swish Swish.” Later that summer, Minaj mysteriously tweeted “N—– sit down. Be humble,” the day that Swift released her single “Look What You Made Me Do.” However, though fans of both artists thought it was a reference to Swift, the comment did not amount to anything.
Miley Cyrus
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Proving that she is not one to back down, Minaj confronted Cyrus at the 2015 VMAs (Cyrus hosted the award show) after the “Wrecking Ball” singer called her “not too kind” while commenting on the Minaj-Swift exchange in an interview withTheNew York Times.
“Now, back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press,” Minaj said after taking to the stage to receive the award for best hip-hop video. “Miley, what’s good?” (a source later claimed that Minaj was joking).
Cyrus quicklytried to defend herself, telling Minaj, “We all do interviews. And we all know how they manipulate.”
Minajaddressed the still-unresolved feudin hercover storyfor theNew York Times Magazine’sCulture issue that October.
“You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important?” Minaj said of Cyrus.
Years later, Cyrus released the song “Cattitude” in May 2019, which features the lyric,“I love you Nicki, but I listen to Cardi,“a clear reference to the Minaj-Cardi feud.
The rapper added: “That’s what [Cyrus] did in the first place. And then the white girl cried and made the Black girl seem like she was a bad guy. In the first place, she disrespected me in a magazine article for no reason.”
Mariah Carey
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Mariah Carey and Minaj first worked together when Minaj appeared on Carey’s 2009 song “Up Out My Face” in 2009, but the camaraderie wouldn’t last.
During her stint as a judge onAmerican Idolin 2013, Minaj warred with fellow panelist Carey — anIdolsourcetold PEOPLEthat Carey didn’t think Minaj could sing and “doesn’t think she should be judging folks.”
“Mariah has been saying little things to jab at Nicki from day one of shooting,” the source said.
The once-cordial stars, who never patched things up publicly, announced their departures from the show on the same day in 2013.
Farrah Abraham
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The spat continued, with Minaj urging Abraham to treat her mother better: “Be happy she’s helping!” Minajtweeted
Although Minaj seemed to wash her hands of the feud, aTwitter videosurfaced in the days following the feud of Abraham’s daughter Sophia calling Minaj a “total loser.”
Lil' Kim
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The Queen of the Barbs was at odds with the Queen Bee early in her career: In May 2012,Lil' Kimtold the New York radio show The Breakfast Club 105.1 that the rapper stole her soundandher style.
The feud made headlines when Minaj dissed Kim in tracks on herPink Fridayalbum, and Kim responded with diss tracks on a mixtape pointedly titledBlack Friday.
Things died down for some time but were reignited in 2013 when Kim dissed Minajagainin her own remix toBeyoncé’s Minaj-assisted “Flawless” remix.
Nearly a decade later, Kimfaced accusationsin September 2022 that her rap on aMegan Thee Stallionremix of the song “Plan B” was a dig atNicki Minajand her son. However, Kim quickly took to her Instagram Story to clear things up. “I never said a word about anyone’s child…please feel free to listen to the song where we were clearly talking about an EX,” she wrote. “To try and twist my words to have an excuse to take digs at my child is disgusting. I’m one of the most disrespected legends in the game but what you will not do is come for MY CHILD.”
Demi Lovato
Demi Lovatosent a jab the rapper’s way after Minaj failed to mention her in an Instagram photo from the 2016 Met Gala.
Lovato took to Instagram, uploading a since-deleted photo of Minaj seemingly sending her a sharp look on the red carpet.
“This pretty much summed up my first and probably last Met,” Lovato captioned the picture. “I’m obviously laughing at the fact that 1. I look incredibly awkward and 2. That the shade being thrown in this picture actually gives me life.”
Minaj didn’t comment on Lovato’s statements.
Days later, Lovato slammed critics in a late-night Twitter rant. “Sometimes there’s more to the story” shebegan. “Sometimes there’s more s— going on than you see,” shecontinued. “Maybe you DON’T know every aspect of my life so maybe you shouldn’t assume you know.”
In March 2018, Lovato revealed sheleft the fashion gala early to attend an AA meeting.
“I had a terrible experience,” Lovato toldBillboard. “This one celebrity was a complete bitch and was miserable to be around. It was very cliquey. I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink.”
Many fans online believedLovato left because of Minaj.
“I changed my clothes, but I still had my diamonds on — millions of dollars of diamonds on in an AA meeting,” Lovato said. “And I related more to the homeless people in that meeting who struggled with the same struggles that I deal with than the people at the Met Gala — fake and sucking the fashion industry’s d—.”
Iggy Azalea
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At the 2014 BET Awards, best female hip-hop artist winner Minaj appeared to dissIggy Azaleain her acceptance speech.
“What I want the world to know aboutNicki Minajis when you hearNicki Minajspit,Nicki Minajwrote it,” Minaj said, seemingly insinuating that the “Fancy” rapper had used a ghostwriter.
Minaj didn’t deny slamming Azalea but later took to Twitter to elaborate on her speech.
“The media puts words in my mouth all the time and this is no different. I will always take a stance on women writing b/c I believe in us!” Minaj tweeted. “I’ve congratulated Iggy on the success of Fancy, publicly. She should be very proud of that.”
Soon after, Azalea responded to the drama online:
Meek Mill
RappersMeek Milland Minaj were in a relationship for nearly two years before Minajannounced they had broken upin January 2017.
Since the break-up, the two have occasionally dissed each other. When asked about Minaj on Twitter in December 2018, Mill said thatshe had blocked him.
Minaj included the line “Meek still be in my DMs, I be having to duck him” in her 2018 single “Barbie Dreams.” After performing it at the FOMO Festival in Brisbane, Australia, in January 2019,she told the crowd, “I could tell you secrets but I won’t, ‘cause being a bitter bitch is what I don’t.”
source: people.com
