Nicki Minaj vs Everyone
Nicki Minaj vs
Everyone
It shouldn’t come as surprised that
Nick Minaj is one of the most influential female rappers (ARTIST) in all of
music. While Nicki is known for her catchy tunes, iconic bars but one thing
that has taken over and put a dark cloud on her legacy was her many rap beefs. And
we are going to go through most of them. Some of these were provoke, some were
not provoke, some were understandable, some showcased bully-like behavior. So, let’s go through some of Nicki’s famous
feuds.
Lil
Kim
When Nicki got her career started
in rap many called her the next Lil Kim as Nicki has a similar rap style to
her. Nicki also stated her biggest influences growing was Miss Kimberly Jones. Nicki
in 2009-2011 high in mixtape scene and it got label’s attention. It was a high
bidding war that Lil Wayne & Young Money won. Why mention all this? Well,
seeing a new up and coming female rapper it got Kim’s attention in more ways
than one. Instead of embracing a new female rapper, one in which we haven’t
seen in years up to that point. Kim, alongside Ray J, made a comment that
seemed shady towards Nicki, accusing Nicki of biting her style.
Nicki kept quiet but months went by
and Minaj recorded and released the song “Roman’s Revenge”. This song sent
subliminal towards Kim with lines like “"Nicki, she's just mad 'cause you
took the spot, Word, that b**ch mad 'cause I took the spot? Well, bitch, if you
ain't shittin', then get off the pot, Got some n**** out in Brooklyn that'll
off your top”. The song basically is stating that Nicki is here to take her
spot and Lil Kim is a has been. Afte the diss made headways, Nicki went on
HOT97 with Angela Martinez to address the situation. [clip] Lil Kim responded
with a diss track called Black Friday. Her song uses Pharoah Monch “Simon Says”
sample as Nicki continued to call Nicki a carbon copy of her. Nicki continued
to throw shade whenever she get featured on other artist’s tracks.
Lil Kim would then release an EP
called I Am Not the One, which the EP goal is to target Nicki Minaj. Like
Minaj, she too did an interview this time on The Breakfast Club to address her
situation with Minaj. Nicki would then
release Pink Friday: Roman’s Revenge in 2011. In the reissue, there was a song
called “Stupid Hoe”, one of the worst songs ever made. While this was another
diss towards Kim, it served as more of a troll job and taunt than anything and
was not meant to be taken seriously.
Fast forward 2014, Nicki appeared
on the track Flawless by Beyonce. In the feature verse, Nicki branded herself
the Queen of Rap. Kim felt some type of way by this line. This would leave Kim
to plug in her verse on a Flawless freestyle where she dissed Nicki. Shortly
after Kim released another diss track called Identity Thief. Responses to this
track were mostly negative and there was a twitter campaign called “Kim give it
up”. After this the rivalry mostly cooled down with until 2017 when Kim sided
with Remy Ma when she dissed Nicki on “Shether” (more on that momentarily). But
things today has cooled when Nicki shouted out Kim as one of her influences and
both parties stating to be open to do a future Versuz.
Mariah
Carey
While the first beef was mostly
about the music, the next one was focused on live national television. Mariah
was still an establish face in the music industry. She released Memoirs of an
Imperfect Angel in 2009. She had a song called Up Out My Face and recruited
Nicki Minaj to be featured in the remix, which Minaj agreed. The remix was
successful in airplay and they even use Nicki’s Barbie persona to her advantage
in the video. There was a rumor about Nicki and her entourage being rude to
Mariah during the video shoot, but sources are vague when it comes to that
situation. Fast forward 2011-2012, Mariah just gave birth to a set of twins and
was looking for stability. Mariah signed on to do American Idol, a show that
was seeing declining rating and needed a boost. The problems begin when it was
announced that Nicki Minaj was added to the American Idol season. Mariah
believed that Minaj did not deserve a spot as a 4th judge on
American Idol.
This led to an intense season 11.
In Charlotte Motor Speedway, American Idol was holding auditions. The whole
panel had a disagreement on a hopeful’s audition involving her direction in
country. An unaired altercation was filmed and leaked to TMZ and It would be
the first of many altercations/subtle jabs that the pair would send. Nicki
would storm off the set but returned just before the next hopeful. In a later
interview with Barbara Walters, Mariah revealed that Nicki, threatened harm on
Nicki with a weapon. Mariah, being a new mother of twins, took the precaution
and hired extra security. Barack Obama, the US president at the time, even
weighed in on the rivalry with his comments, likely leaning towards Mariah’s
favor.
For the rest of the season, both
ladies would throw shade at each other. Like Mariah mentioning her #1s that
Nicki hasn’t obtained to that point, and some like her husband Nick Cannon
saying that the drama was being egged on by producers as it was proven to be
ratings gold. Viewers were more interested in the catty behavior than the
competition itself, bet any of you can’t name who won that season without
looking it up. After the season, Mariah and Nicki announced that they won’t be
returning next season. Mariah would remain distant and low to comment on this
era. But Nicki seemed to move on, she even shouted her out in a positive light
when Nicki received the 2022 Vanguard Award.
The
Grammys
2010-2011 was Nicki breakout year. Pink Friday became the first female rap album to go #1 since Lauryn Hill. In 2012, she was nominated for five Grammys which included Best New Artist. Capitalizing on the rise, the Grammys wanted her to perform on their ceremony, which she agreed to. Should be noted her first ever nomination came as a featured artist on the Ludacris song My Chick Bad.
Her performance was a highly
anticipated, CBS promoted her appearance on various commercials. Then on
February 12, 2012, the day before the Grammy was set to air live, icon Whitney
Houston passed away. This put the Grammys in a pickle, as they were going to be
the first award show to lead tributes to Houston. Similar to what the 2009 BET
Awards did for Michael Jackson when he passed, the Grammys decided to shift it
show to make room for tributes. The Grammys approached Nicki to remove her
performance to make room for the tributes. She refused. Grammys put forth time
and effort in promoting Nicki Minaj’s performance and Nicki did not want to
disappoint her fans in backing down.
Her performance featured her alter
ego Roman and it started of with her performance to Roman Revenge. After this
she cuts off to show excerpts of The Exorcism of Roman. After this it shifted
to Roman Holiday with Nicki being chained. This performance spark criticism
from the Catholic Church. This leaves us to Best New Artist, an award which Bon
Iver won. Many were surprised as Iver wasn’t a big mega superstar like Minaj
is. Some fans thought that Nicki’s name was on the ballot but after refusing to
back down from her performance, she was replaced by Bon Iver.
Nicki has stated that she has been
blackballed by the Grammys, she hasn’t won a Grammy and in later years when
female rappers were on the rise, “peers” like Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion,
Doja Cat and Doechii all have Grammys to their names. In fact, Nicki endured
more issues with the Grammys. In 2023, she was set to submit Super Freaky Girl
for the rap categories in the Grammys. It would be her first submissions since
2016 Pinkprint era. The Grammys ruled that her song Super Freaky Girl was
ineligible for the rap categories but instead the pop categories. This would
cause a stir with another female rapper later on, but saw two more nomination
after this for Barbie World, which she obviously lost, after many fans thought
she had won.
In 2025, Pink Friday 2 was snubbed
and Nicki once again wasn’t nominated. Nicki Minaj, by far the biggest female
rapper in the 2010s has 0 Grammys to her name.
Iggy
Azaelea
Iggy Azaelea was an upcoming female
rapper from Australia. Iggy’s rise to hip-hop was very controversial. Again,
from Australia, Iggy moved to Los Angeles to start her hip hop career. She put
out a single “P*SSY”, and that song got her noticed by southern rapper TI, who
would later sign Iggy to Grand Hustle. Fast forward to 2014, Iggy performed at
the BET Awards performing the song “Mediocre” before transitioning to “Fancy”.
Nicki too performed as she performed “Pills and Potions”, the leadoff single
for her next album The PinkPrint. That night Nicki won her fifth Best Female
Hip Hop Artist, an award that was a meme at the time. And Nicki made a sly
comment about authenticity that she writes her rhymes. Many put two and two
together and fans figured out that Nicki was referring to Iggy Azalea as Nicki
might’ve believed that Iggy (from Australia) was faking a southern accent for
clout.
Later that year, “Fancy” (ft.
Charli xcx) goes #1 becoming the first female rapper to achieve this since Lil
Kim in 2001. She actually occupied the top 2, the first female rapper to
achieve this, as she was featured on “Problem” with Nicki’s bestie Ariana
Grande. This was the first beef that highlights Nicki’s insecurity, and
certainly not last. Iggy was the first female rapper this decade to challenge
Nicki’s throne on top female rapper. But at the same time, according to Iggy,
the beef was more fan driven and media driven than actual problems.
Taylor
Swift
Miley
Cyrus
And this leads us to the main
event, the 2015 VMA Awards. Nicki won Best Hip Hop Video for Anaconda gave her
thanks but after her speech, she pivoted towards Miley saying “What’s good”.
But after this, things remained cordial amongst the women. That was until 2019,
Miley released an EP She Is Coming. ON the song “Cattitude”, she states while
she loves Nicki, she listens to Cardi B. Nicki responded on her Queen Radio
show stating that Miley performed favors on Mike Will, changed her image. The
two rarely speak about, let alone to each other till this day.
Meek Mill
This
beef was more a broken relationship than anything. The pair had dated in 2015,
toured together on Nicki’s Pink Print tour, and was featured on the PinkPrint
album on the song “Big Daddy”. They started off as friends but it became
official by year ends. They spend the next two years being in love. But things
took a turn when Meek Mill posted a now deleted photoshopped picture of Nicki
Minaj pregnant and Nicki didn’t take that fondly. She tweeted “Back on the
Prowl”. Meek Mill had a crashout on IG saying “When it’s going down, these n****
nowhere to be found. Most of these n***** be so temporary. B**** be so
temporary.” Meek deleted his IG shortly after.
In
2017, Nicki confirms the breakup. Meek too confirmed this too as he posted a
picture of white shoes saying “If you walk out don’t wear these, they wack.”
Nicki threw hints that Meek was controlling, he didn’t support her, and overall,
a draining experience. The music came in when Nicki sent a subliminal on the
song “Regret in Your Tears”, which shines light on the breakup. On the song
“Barbie Tingz”, she had lines implies that she kept quiet to avoid hurting Meek
career thus she had to protect him. But the most notable subliminal was on the
song “Barbie Dreams” she states that Meek still be in her DMs, which could
imply that Meek still had feelings for her and wanted her back.
Meek
made some statements saying Nicki wasn’t over him, which is why she keep
sending shots towards him. He also countered saying that she was just as toxic
as he was and was attacked by the Barbz even though Nicki never called him out
publicly. He states in Cold Hearted II where he obviously didn’t mention Nicki
by name but might’ve implied that she was jealous and that she was supposed to
be his ride or die.
Meek
would lay dormant in late 2017-2018 when he went to jail for violating his
probation but he got out on appeal. About a year later, he ran into Nicki and
her new man Mr. Petty and the two got into a heated shouting match at a retail
store. In 2020, they get into a heated twitter feud. Nicki tweeted “You beat
your own sister and taped it, Spit on her & taped it. Kicked me in front
your mother and sent her to the hospital. Sucking Drake d–k made u feel tough
again. Move on. N—a been tweeting bout my man for a year now. Talking bout, he
went to my page to see him but he was blocked. My n—a, move on. I know ya b*tch
embarrassed. Sh**ed yaself in that store when u got pressed tho.” Meek
responded “The only way you can try to kill my career is to say I beat women, Talk
about ya brother convicted of r--- and you been knew and paid for his lawyer …
ya little brother touched that lil girl too! You know I know … you want me to
crash with ya boyfriend and I won’t.” He continues “You sad you willing to
crash your man because you losing now and everybody in the industry know you a
bad person! You been knew your brother was raping that little girl that’s why I
got away from you!”. And for a closer “For clarification I don’t hit women and
I won’t let my interviews be filled with question about her or any situation to
do with her when I come out to do press for my new album! No devils tricks”. It
seems that both moved on with their personal relationships.
Remy
Ma
Remy did a freestyle with Papoose
and Funkmaster Flex. While rapping over Nas “New York State of Mind” Remy
dropped the lines “See your whole style, bitten / Pieces ain’t hitting / When I
said it was written, I was talking bout y’all b—hes / Y’all trying to play
chess, but why would I play you / When I could knock the whole f–king board off
the table.” Nicki responded by saying “All this talk about me and your son /
I’m hot and your whole world revolve around me, b—h I am the sun.” Then Remy
was featured on Phresher song “Wait A Minute Remix” again sent a subliminal
stating ‘Will I smoke this b—h? Yes / Probably fail my piss test / Get rid of
those fake breasts / And put a vest on this b—h chest,” Then on the same song
she pointed out alleging that Nicki has ghostwriters. Remy was pressed about
this issue on The Breakfast Club, stating that if she calls you out, she using
your government name and let it be known that she was talking about you.
Nicki finally respond to her on Jason Derulo
song “Swalla” where she says “I gave these b—hes two years, now your time’s up
/ Bless her heart, she throwing shots but every line sucks,”. But on Gucci
Mane’s “Make Love” the shots were more direct where she says in order to be the
queen of rap, you have to sell records.
This is when Remy unleashed
“Shether”. Obviously, the song used Nas infamous Ether sample. In the song she
calls out Nicki directly about her plastic surgery, having a ghostwriter, her narrative
about being the queen of rap, airing out her past beefs with Lil Kim, Mariah,
Miley & Taylor Swift, and how Nicki used favors to get to the level of
acclaim. But she lived up to her promise she called Onika out by name. The
streets overall received this very well. But Remy wasn’t done, almost within 24
hours she dropped “Another One” (let’s be real that song wasn’t need). That song’s
goal was to apply pressure on Nicki and to pour salt on the wound. Remy decides
to emulate Drake on his diss track Back 2 Back.
Nicki finally responded with the
song “No Frauds”. Nicki states that Remy is a hypocrite for calling her out on
plastic surgery, prison time, using the rap beef to stay relevant, and Nicki
flexing on her industry power. That part was true when No Frauds charted at #14
on the Hot 100 while Shether and Another One failed to do so. Many felt like
Nicki didn’t win because she spent majority of the song talking about herself
and not her opponent, also using Drake & Lil Wayne who added very little to
the song.
At the 2017 BET Awards, Remy Ma
ended Nicki Minaj’s eight year winning streak by winning Best Female Hip Hop
Artist. In recent interviews, Remy states that she not proud of dropping
Shether but doesn’t regret it, as she’s all about female hip hop unity. Another
One is scrubbed and not found on YouTube, only found in reaction videos. In
all, no winners in this one. Remy poked the bear for a response, using the diss
to boost her career and Nicki didn’t provoke her either but at the same time
Nicki responded with No Frauds, which a weak tune but not her worst diss track
(we’ll get into that in a bit).
Azealia
banks
If you don’t know who Azealia Banks
is, she a rapper from the UK but is more known for her trolling on social
media. The beef started in 2012 when Banks was a rookie. Nicki wanted to be
part of her tour but Banks turned it down as she wanted to work on her album.
Nicki made a tweet with the hashtag Man These B-tches Delirious and Azealia
assumed it was about her. This lead Banks into responding saying "I think
the word you were looking for was (delusional). Use proper grammar when
insulting others. I don't believe in the rap hierarchy. Just wait until my
album comes out”. Nicki responds with silence. Years later Banks apologized to
Minaj to which she accepts.
Yet still, Banks would mention
Minaj, calling her out on not being a girl’s girl, while making jabs at her
career. Yet Nicki chose to ignore her. Banks has a habit on picking fights with
everyone to the point, people forget she was a rapper. The final straw came in
2020, when Banks mentioned Mr. Petty, and make jabs at her family (Minaj was
pregnant at the time), and most notably that Minaj was on coke. And Nicki
finally responds saying she doesn’t do coke rather she suffers from allergies.
Many fans backed Nicki as Azealia has a history on picking fights with pretty
much everyone.
Cardi
B
In order understand this rivalry,
we have to figure out who Cardi B even is. Cardi B was a former stripper turned
reality TV star as she was on the show Love & Hip Hop New York. She quickly
rose to fame on said show thanks to her one-liners. In 2016, she left the show
to pursue music full-time. Cardi dropped two mixtapes before getting signed to
Atlantic. 2017 would be Cardi’s breakout, when she released the song “Bodak
Yellow”. Bodak Yellow was a record breaker, longest running female #1 rap song,
the fastest female rap video to get to 1 billion views (and that surpassed
Anaconda). Should be noted, Nicki still haven’t gotten a #1 hit till that
point. But Nicki became a good sport and tweeted her congrats to the rising
artist.
With Cardi’s rise, many start
pitting her as the next Nicki Minaj. Other saying Cardi has already surpassed
Nicki with just one hit. Stan wars began to pit the women against each other.
But the ladies deny any beef. Then Nicki did something that she rarely has done
to this point, collab with a fellow female rapper. She did so on the Migos
track “Motorsports”. One thing of note was that Cardi started to date Migos
member Offset and rumors stated that she got on the song because of him. But it
was Quavo that cosigned Cardi to hop on the song. When the women verses came
out, fans thought they were dissing each other. But both had to deny those
claims. In the video, both women shot their
scenes in different days adding on to the beef rumors (Nicki refutes stating
that her hairstylist wasn’t available for on the day of the shoot). Motorsports
accumulated 732 million views as of January 2026, the song reached the top 10
on the Hot 100.
In the spring 2018, Cardi released
her debut album Invasion of Privacy which goes #1 on the Billboard 200. She did
an interview with Beats 1 stating that the beef with Minaj was made up as fans
like to see artists beef with each other. Meanwhile, Minaj started to gear up
for her album Queen by releasing two singles Chun Li and Barbie Tingz. Nicki
did an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1, and this would be the first time
she would address Cardi B in a negative light. She said in paraphrasing, that
Cardi lied about hearing Nicki’s verse which prompted her to change said verse.
She also said Cardi never showed her genuine love in interviews after
Motorsports came out. One the same day that interview came out, Nicki’s
original verse was leaked which Nicki stated she changed her verse per
Atlantic’s request.
This leaves us to The Met Gala. The
two were face to face and things were fine. While things got tense, they where
able to talk things out and the ladies went their way. In August, Queen was
released. On the album, Nicki had a song called Ganja Burns which fans thought
was a diss aimed at Cardi B as Nicki called out other rappers for having
ghostwriters, if you don’t know, Cardi rarely write her own bars.
The next month, all hell broke
loose on New York Fashion Week. Almost a year after Motorsports, a year full of
sneak dissing, shady interview the two attempted a physical fight at the event.
Sources differ on what lead to the altercation, but Cardi went to Nicki’s table
and entourage to address the lies Nicki was spreading about her. This led
security to elbow Cardi in the face, which gave her a knot. Cardi ended up
throwing a shoe in Minaj direction. Security would end up escorting Cardi out
of the event. Shortly after, Cardi went on IG to address what went down saying:
“I've let a lot of shit slide! I let you sneak diss me, I let you lie on me, I
let you attempt to stop my bags, fuck up the way I eat," Cardi wrote.
"You've threatened other artists in the industry, told them if they work
with me, you'll stop fuckin with them!! I let you talk big shit about me!!”
A few days later Nicki went on her
Queen Radio show to address the incident. She start the show playing a clip of
Cardi B saying “nothing is off limits” when it comes to clapping back. The
reason for this intro was that Cardi claimed Nicki blabbed about her parenting
skills involving her daughter Kulture, claiming hypocrisy. Nicki then goes on
and says Cardi built her career on payola and sympathy then stating that Cardi
was going through postpartum depression (which she might’ve been). A month
later on Quenn Radio show, Nicki addressed New York Fashion again. That’s where
Nicki states her friend Rah Ali beat Cardi up, denied that she leaked Cardi’s
phone number so the Barbz can send death threats (that claim was stated by
Cardi’s sister Hennessy). The next day Cardi fired back with a barrage of IG
posts. Cardi states: she didn’t get beat by Rah Ali, countered the payola
allegations stating that Money was doing fine on iTunes before getting shipped
to radio, stated that Nicki leaked her phone number to her fans, then states
that she endorses the Barbz negative behavior towards her.
In 2019, Cardi became the second
female rapper to win Best Rap Album for Invasion of Privacy. Fans would pick on
Minaj stating that Cardi has a Grammy while Minaj doesn’t. Heading into the
2020s, Nicki spent the first few years laying low while Cardi would drip feed
singles. Proxy wars were beginning. If any rapper worked with Cardi B, they
would have beef with Minaj and any of her affiliates. Not going to go through
them in this section because some of the ladies will be mentioned later.
In 2025, Cardi released the song
Imaginary Players. Cardi sent a shot towards Nicki stating “Striped like Thom
Browne, these bitches should calm down.” That because Nicki wore Thom Browne
fashion at the Met Gala that year. The next month Cardi released her long
awaited second album Am I the Drama. While it debuted at #1 on the 200, Nicki
mocked her, boasting about her album sales. Nicki and Cardi would go at it on
Twitter…again. It’s a lot, it’s exhausting let’s just say it went from Nicki
obsessing over Cardi B second album week sales, when Nicki’s Pink Friday 2
moved 100K units second week during the holiday period, to both women going for
low blows mentioning Nicki’s fertility issues, drug usage, family stuff. Both
women were losing the plot.
To close this long portion of this presentation,
Cardi wrote a long post addressing Nicki: “Dear Onika Tanya Maraj, This my last
time responding to you because this past Twitter now. I gotta see you… but
first ima tell you truth... You said out your own mouth that the lil girl in
you haven’t forgave your mother yet and that’s because your mom used to stay
silent when your dad used to touch on you everytime he did that crack pipe… I
know you experienced a lot of trauma and abuse but drugs is not gonna help you...
you need to go to therapy NOW… ima let you know this today... your husband is
not stoppin you from your actions because he lets you do drugs all day to numb
you so he can max out your credit card… yea you think I don’t know?? Them
queens n*kkas that you be letting in your house everytime you kick them out be
coming and spilling your tea in the hood.. but I’m gonna be the realest person
to ever tell you.. YOU NEED TO GET HELP!! You need to heal that trauma.. you
always coming at people everytime you see them happy because you got so much
trauma and pain that you wanna put on others.. your fans are gonna gas you up
while you literally lose your god damn mind…. You don’t have no friends.. no
family.. just that man in your house that let you do drugs til you pass out so
he can spend your money and buy the hood chains.. I’m not throwing away my
career and my endorsements going back and forth with wit words wit a possessed
drug addict.. ILL SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU
Travis
Scott
Years later, have nothing to do
with Nicki, but a Nicki Minaj fan named Sabrina Carpenter released an album Short
N Sweet. The same day, Scott re-released Days Before Rodeo mixtape with
physical sales. Sabrina Carpenter beat out Scott for the #1 (barely). Weeks
later, Travis took the #1 with similar practices.
Travis Scott never addressed Nicki
Minaj nor his sales practices.
Kash
Doll
In 2019, she decided to let the
world know that she doesn’t have any problems with Cardi B. The linked up in a
club setting to ensure everyone that there is no conflict between the women.
This is where Nicki finally comes in, more so the Barbz. After spotting the
photo the Barbz did their “detective” work and found out that Kash Doll
unfollowed Nicki. The Barbz thought that Kash Doll unfollowed Nicki because of
her newfound affiliation with Cardi B. But that wasn’t the reason. Turned out
Nicki DM Kash Doll and context of the DMs were never revealed but what is known
is that Kash thought Nicki’s behavior was not good and that lead her to the
unfollow. Word got back years earlier that a barb hacked Kash Doll’s IG and the
barb offered Kash Doll $5,000 for it to give it back. For any solace, Kash
Doll’s fan name is the Bratz while Nicki’s is the Barbz and the two doll
companies have been competing for each other for years.
One more thing, Nicki tried to
become a peacemaker when Kash Doll was having an issue with Asian Doll by
inviting both parties to Nicki’s Queen Radio. Think the issue boils down to the
Barbz, then with Nicki herself. Barbz, as mentioned many times in this
presentation, will go to the death to defend their queen. Kash Doll have since
moved on to focus on her rap/acting career than engage in petty beef.
Leigh
Anne & Little Mix
Fast forward to October 2021,
Little Mix was idle due to the pregnancies of Perrie and Leigh-Anne. Jesy
decided to launch her solo career and released her debut single “Boyz”. The
song sampled P. Diddy’s “Bad Boy for Life” and it featured Nicki Minaj. In the
video, Jesy showcased a different urban image, that was a far cry on what she
did with Little Mix. But the big criticism was there were blackfishing
allegations. After the song was released, both Jesy and Nicki would go on Live
and have a discussion. This was in response to the group allegedly DM NoHun, a
TikToker from Birmingham to make a video about Jesy’s blackfishing. At first,
Minaj gave Jesy words of encouragement for her fledgling solo career. Then
Nicki starts to throw shade towards Little Mix, even though Nicki never mentions
names most of the shade was aimed towards Leigh-Anne. At one point during the
Live, Nicki calls Leigh Anne a clown, while Jesy stayed silent. Fans called out
Jesy for her behavior given that she threw away a decade long relationship for
an IG Live.
Leigh-Anne never officially
responded to Minaj, but spoke about the incident at her 30th
birthday party. Little Mix didn’t last long after the incident. The group went
on hiatus the next year and Jesy solo career would flounder. But Leigh Anne and
the other members did make peace with Jesy when she was dealing with personal
issues during childbirth.
Normani
City
Girls
But while JT was in prison, several
leaks landed on social media where JT seemingly dissed Nicki Minaj for no
reason. Later Yung Miami was asked where she stands with. Some years later
(circa 2021), City Girls did a partial campaign to get a collab with Nicki
Minaj. But Nicki shot it down because of the things they said about her.
Literally the next day, Nicki made a tweet saying she had a great conversation
with Yung Miami & JT. Yung Miami retweeted Queen Tings with JT retweeting
with SAG Sister, thank you for your time, your advice. A true queen love you.
Although City Girls and Nicki never
collab, they caught Nicki in a forgiving mood and Minaj didn’t have to do that
but she did. Maybe she matured?
Latto
Towards the end of the summer,
Nicki dropped the single “Super Freaky Girl”, a song that debuted at #1 on the
Hot 100, Minaj first solo #1. Few months later, artists started making
submissions for the 2023 Grammys. Minaj, who was still Grammy-less, wanted to
submit Super Freaky Girl to the Rap categories. However, The Grammys told her
that her song SFG sounded more Pop thus she’ll have to submit in the Pop
categories. She went to Twitter and said if SFG had to be moved to the Pop
categories so does Big Energy. Latto took the bait and responded saying she
can’t celebrate her nominations without someone hating (paraphrasing). Nicki
then called Latto a Karen, then scratch-off and afterwards more back and forth
Tweets continued. Latto then calls Nicki a 40-year-old bully, a Super Freaky
Grandma before sending shots towards her husband Mr. Petty for being an
offender. Nicki calls Latto a hypocrite as she worked with Dr. Luke while
questioning why come for her while she didn’t come for Kodak Black, a rapper
and offender who dissed her weeks earlier. Latto would go on be nominated for
Best Melodic Performance for “Big Energy (Live)” while Minaj was snubbed from
the ceremony altogether.
In 2023 at Coachella, Latto
premiered a song called “Put It on the Floor”. Fans suspected that Latto was
sending shots towards Nicki, where there where lines about ducking smoke and
the closing lines mentioning subtweets. Suspects increased when Latto released
“Put It on the Floor Again” and featured Cardi B. In 2025, Latto did an
interview with Andy Cohen and he asked if there’s a chance she could patch
things up with Nicki, since Latto was able to squash her beef with Ice Spice.
Latto responded with, “rekindling with anybody”. Another guest said that “We
Love Nicki” and Latto said “I did, too”. This beef was the definition on how an
idol became a rival.
Megan
Thee Stallion
The next year, Megan teamed up with
Cardi B on the song “WAP” (which stands for). The became a record breaker,
highest debut for a female rap collab, biggest streaming debut for any female
collab. Despite teaming up with someone whom Nicki already had beef with, Nicki
showed love. Most of the praise was for Megan going back to college to get her
degree but praise nonetheless.
But by early 2021, Nicki unfollowed
Megan on IG (and vice versa). Early that year, Nicki re-released her Beam It Up
Scotty Mixtape and it featured a new song called “Seeing Green”. In the song
she said this in possible regard towards Megan. “One Margarita pizza with
Parmesan and garlic. These b—–s thirsty I can see why they alcoholics.” Nicki
implies that Megan is an alcoholic. She recalls, that Megan forced her to drink
alcohol while pregnant with her son. Also on the same Queen Radio, she said
Megan never congratulation her on her pregnancy nor the birth of her son. Megan
denied forcing Nicki to drink.
In 2023, Nicki send shots towards
Megan again on the song “Red Ruby Da Sleeze”. Lines included “700 on them
horses when we fixing to leave/ But I don’t f–k with horses since Christopher
Reeves,” and “Dorito b—-s mad that they nachos”. Then Doritos line was in
regards to Megan’s Super Bowl campaign for the company. Later that year, Megan
again teamed up with Cardi B, on the song “Bongos”. The ladies performed the
song at the 2023 VMAs, on a show Nicki was hosting. Cardi, Megan and Nicki did
not interact with each other during the show.
In January 2024, Megan dropped the
song “HISS”. The song was a “to whom it may concern” target with most of it
aimed towards Drake, DaBaby, Torey Lanez & her former boyfriend. But the
biggest jabs were aimed at Nicki Minaj. “These h–s don’t be mad at Megan, these
h–s mad at Megan’s Law/ I don’t really know what the problem is, but I
guarantee y’all don’t want me to start/ B—h, you a p—y, never finna check me/
Every chance you get, bet your weak ass won’t address me.” The Megan’s Law line
was aimed at Mr. Petty who was an offender. She also said that Nicki doesn’t
have an excuse to not like her. After the diss was released, Nicki crashed out.
She went on IG Live, tells Megan that she can’t stay on beat. Then she teases
her response track towards Megan called “Big Foot”.
Nicki released “Big Foot” that
Monday. She planned on releasing ASAP, but Nicki could not get clearance on the
original beat. Most of Nicki’s line involved that Megan has big feet, that she
sleeps around (which Megan admit to in many instances so the line doesn’t hit),
and the biggest one of all was that Megan lied on her dead mom about getting
shot by Torey Lanez. In the end, she goes full ASMR in the end, basically
rambling about how she has other songs in the lab that goes off harder than Big
Foot (and it’s literally half the song). The song was negatively received by
critics and fans (even from the Barbz) with some calling it, the worst diss
track ever made. A lot of people call out Nicki for her bullying behavior and
they side with Megan. To pour salt on the wound on the part of Nicki, several
Barbz in denial vandalized the grave of Megan dead relative, and Nicki did
nothing.
Thanks to the drama, HISS was able
to debut at #1 on the Hot 100, while Big Foot #23 (granted with partial
tracking) and this next part has nothing to do with the beef, Nicki cosigned
FACTS by Tom MacDonald (aka the biggest independent rapper according to him)
and Ben Shapiro and that debuted at #16. Here’s the thing when Big Foot got the
full tracking, HISS fell to #11, while Big Foot and FACTS fell off the charts
entirely. Best part about all of this, Megan didn’t respond to Nicki’s
crashout, because Nicki was destroying herself from within.
Later that year, Megan released her
self-titled third album. She threw shots towards Nicki on songs like Figueroa,
where Megan pledges allegiance to Charli xcx saying she’s a brat not a Barbie.
Or on Rattle where she says “Damn b*tch, it’s been four years / Worry ’bout
your man and your kid / Your life must be boring as f*ck if you’re still
reminiscin’ ’bout sh*t we did,”. The next year, Megan appeared to troll Nicki
by having some of her dancers dress up as bigfoot. Till this day, Megan still
don’t know why Nicki don’t like her, but she clearly took the W in this beef.
Ice
Spice
Then mid 2024 happened, just when
Ice Spice was gearing up to release her debut album, an artist and former
friend named Baby Storme exposed Ice Spice and some of the text messages they
had. In those messages, Ice called Nicki ungrateful and jealous. In fact, in
those messages she told Baby Storme that the Barbie World song was only
intended for Ice Spice alone but she put Nicki and made her the lead artist
since that’s her persona. Ice Spice did not deny the messages and but said she
was frustrated. Apparently, Nicki wanted Ice Spice to sign with her label and
take her publishing. But Ice, realizing that it’s a bad deal, turned it down.
What those messages did to Ice
Spice was that she came off as shady. She’ll say something to you face and then
go behind your back and say something else. Nicki unfollowed Ice Spice
following this instance. Many Barbz who cosigned Ice Spice pretty much left her
fanbase and it might’ve caused Ice Spice’s debut to underperform. Ice Spice
lost this beef and today it seems she yet to recover from it.
SZA
SZA then posted a cryptic message, "Mercury
retrograde.. don't take the bait lol silly goose." The tweet wasn’t
directed towards Nicki but accused SZA of sub tweeting her, where she calls her
ugly, and saying that her vocals sound like she got stung by a bee. After
making fun of her appearance, Nicki went on went on and talk about SOS needing
two versions two break records. And Nicki continued to brag about her stats and
saying that she’ll never be an icon like she is. SZA, in her typical unbothered
mood, posted one final tweet “Let me go back to being shy and meek. Yall have a
blessed night. See you tomorrow for night 2 in Paris”
Months later, SZA was asked about
Minaj and she had this to say “I don’t know her. We have no connection to each
other. There’s no backstory. Like, there was no through line narrative. It was
just like, ‘Roc Nation’…. I don’t know where it came from. That’s not even my
place to correct a narrative that I don’t got shit to do with. It was a little
strange. It was very like, “‘Why?’ But also, you know, ‘I guess.’” In other
words, SZA had moved on.
Dez
Bryant
Fast forward to 2025, Dez playing
career was long over. But Dez was
noticing that linebacker Micah Parsons contract extension talks have stalled as
owner Jerry Jones like to negotiate with the players themselves, not with
agents or agency. Dez took to X, and basically relate to Micah’s situation
saying that it was difficult to negotiate with the billionaire owner of one of
the richest sport franchises in the world.
How does Nicki get involved? Nicki
saw Dez’s tweets as she has her own issues with Roc Nation. She invites Dez to
play a story time game as she’s willing to listen to all the shady Jerry Jones
stories as long as Dez listen to her stories involving Roc Nation. But that was
smoke Dez didn’t want, he posted a video stating that he doesn’t want problems,
he’s a huge fan. But that lead to Nicki mentioning Dez’s 2012 arrest when he
allegedly assaulted his mother. Dez responds by saying he never went to jail
nor struck his mother. Bryant then brings up Mr. Petty being an offender. Nicki
then says, since you like beating your mom, I’ll offer you $10 mil to fight my
husband. Dez then closed saying he was taking the high road in detailing his
past. Also mentioning that Minaj had zero reason on why she inserted herself in
a situation that has nothing to do with her.
Both parties ended in apologies
tweets, but jokingly still offered her to fight her husband.
The
Grift/fanbase
What started to change? Joe Biden
handling of vaccine mandates didn’t suit her. She went full anti-vaxxer in
2021. But there were celebrities from both sides who were anti-vaxxers so no
one thought much of it. In 2023, on the song “Endless Fashion” with Lil Uzi
Vert she quotes the line “I need a Republican doctor, make my ass great again
MAGA”. Again no one thought much of it but it will serve as a small hint.
2024 comes, Nicki keeps her
endorsement quiet while Donald Trump retook the White House. But 2025 the noise
got louder when she started beefing with Gavin Newson, democratic governor of
California. Nicki does what she does best goes to Twitter and pick a fight.
Gavin didn’t respond, except making a HISS reference. Also, her mansion in LA
had been swatted a few times.
Nicki and the White House continued
to find common ground. Particularly with the issues of Christian genocide in
Nigeria. Two days after voicing her concern on the matter. She joined the
ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, to deliver a speech on the issue. Her speech
received mixed results but she did lose thousands of her followers across her
social media platforms and that includes her IG being deleted. Back with Gavin
Newsom, he made a post throwing his support for trans rights. Minaj went on X
and made many posts speaking her disapproval on Newsom’s statements. Nicki
forgot that most of her fans are part of the LGBTQ community.
But one of her biggest grifts came
when she teamed up with Erika Kirk. If you don’t know, she was the wife of
Charlie Kirk, president of Turning Point who lost his life to gun violence in
September. After Charlie’s passing, Erika took over Turning Point USA. December
2025, Nicki Minaj appeared at an event Erika was doing. During the event, she
sings her praises for Trump, made anti-trans rhetoric, calling JD Vance and
assassin (not making that up). Unrelated to the event, she mentioned that on
her next project, there will be a tribute to Charlie on it. Obviously, this
didn’t bode well with her own fanbase.
It's 2026 and Nicki is continuing
to humiliate herself, when she and Donald Trump finally linked up at the
Summit. Nicki got to speak, where she mentions that Trump is her #1 fan (true
now but not then). After this gathering, Trump gave her a gold card visa,
whether it’s for citizenship or genuine reward from Trump is debated. But many
asked why the shift? One big reason (more so theory): Trump has made multiple
pardon to rappers like Kodak Black and NBA YoungBoy. Nicki could be looking for
a pardon for her brother (who is serving time for the r-word) and she want her
husband off the offender list. Another reason Nicki still hasn’t obtained US
citizenship despite being a long-term resident.
This section is also called her
fanbase. Where does this beef comes in. Answer is pretty simple. Most of Nicki
fans consist of two groups, women & the LGBTQ community. Their (especially
the LGBTQ) beliefs don’t align with MAGA. MAGA have been thoroughly against
said community and Nicki throwing her support to a base that don’t support
them, it makes them feel alienated. The aftermath of this, some of her diehards
started to distance themselves from Minaj. Is there a problem with Minaj
supporting Trump, surprisingly no, is there something fishy with the timing of
all this. Yes.
Roc
Nation
Fast forward to 2015, Jay-Z
agency/company Roc Nation was still going on strong. But was about to get
bigger. That was because Jay-Z was able to acquire Tidal streaming service.
Under the watch of Roc Nation, certain artists will receive a stake in
ownership. Minaj will be one of those artists that benefit from that stake. It
was supposed to be different, fairer, profitable for the people creating the
music. 6 years later in 2021, Jay-Z sold majority of his stake to Jack Dorsey
for around $300 million dollars. After Jay-Z sold Tidal, Nicki revealed that
she never got a cent from her time as a partial owner. She claims that Jay-Z
owes her $100-200 million dollars. This was the first true claim that Nicki
accuses Jay-Z and Roc Nation blackballing her.
Since the inception of Roc Nation,
the company grew powerful in the music industry. In 2019, Jay-Z teamed up with
the NFL and the league put him in charge of comprising the halftime show of the
Super Bowl. His first as the head saw Shakira/Jennifer Lopez take the stage in
Miami. It made sense because Miami has a huge Latino community. Mentioned this
because fast forward 2024, the Super Bowl was set for New Orleans. Many thought
that New Orleans native Lil Wayne would be perfect for the tour. But instead,
Jay-Z and the NFL opted for Kendrick Lamar, who was in a middle of a victory
lap on conquering the rap beef. Nicki was not pleased by the selection of Lamar
because she believes Jay-Z had a vendetta against Lil Wayne since their falling
out.
One of Roc Nations biggest prizes
was Megan Thee Stallion. She signed with Roc Nation in 2019 when her rap career
was just getting started. This beef was already mentioned earlier but in 2025,
Megan and Roc Nation was sued by Emilio Garcia after he claims that Megan
forced him to watch her have sex while in Europe. Megan tried to get the notion
thrown out of court but a judge ruled that Garcia had enough of a claim to
pursue further. Nicki, like she has often done went on a tweet storm, calling
it karma.
There is one more entity of this
beef and that is with Desiree Perez. She is the CEO of Roc Nation but had a
rocky past. Back in 1994, she was put on probation for a narcotics charge but
was later sent to prison for violating her probation. In 1996, she booked a
young Jay-Z to perform at one of her nightclubs and this was the start of their
business relationship. In 2008 when Roc Nation was launched, Perez became the
chief operations officer and cofounder of the company. By 2019, she officially
became the CEO of Roc Nation. In 2021, exiting president Donald Trump gave her
a pardon, clearing her records as Trump noticed how she turned her life around.
Back story on Desiree Perez. In 2025, Nicki alleges that Desiree Perez was
behind the plot to have her home swatted over the past years. Nicki took the
time and mentioned her daughter, whom is suing her mother for trying to put her
in a psych ward. In an effort to shade Perez, Nicki throws her support to her
daughter.
Just in, Jay-Z headlined the Roots
Picnic Festival and took the stage with The Roots. During one segment of the
performance, he launched into a freestyle and did not hold back. Among the
artists caught in the crossfire were Drake, Kanye West, Tory Lanez, and of
course, Nicki Minaj. The line directed at Nicki was: "That lady back on
that stuff, she sounds like she's in love with 'em. Her Ken can't even pick
their kid, enough of them." Breaking down the bar, Jay appears to suggest
that Nicki is on drugs and her possible love for the MAGA Movement. The
"Ken" reference is widely believed to be aimed at her husband, Mr. Petty,
with the second half of the line taking a shot at his legal troubles. Whether
this was a direct response to Nicki's recent comments or a broader jab, it
marked the first time Jay-Z publicly responded to his opposition.
No one know how much is true
involving Minaj claims that Roc Nation is sabotaging her behind the scene, but
whatever the case may be Nicki feels that Jay-Z/Roc Nation/Desiree Perez done
her dirty in the past and she wants the truth to come out.
Conclusion
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