Nicki Minaj's history of beef is so long they should name a slaughterhouse after her.
From collaborators, to exes, to literally anyone who mentions her name, almost no one
is safe from the wrath of the Queen.
But not everyone takes it lying down.
These are the celebs who can't stand Nicki Minaj.
Grade-A Cardi B beef
In December 2017, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj both appeared in the video for Migos' hit
single "MotorSport," which subsequently led to boatloads of drama.
In an interview with Capital XTRA, Cardi B said Minaj altered her verse before the song's
release:
"When I heard the track, her verse wasn't finished…
well it's not the verse that's on right now."
Minaj responded to the claim in a Beats 1 interview, claiming that Cardi B and her husband
Kiari "Offset" Cephus-- a member of Migos -- simply weren't playing fair:
"They'll allow people to run with the lie because it's, it's entertaining to make Nicki
seem like a bad guy, and it's sad."
It gets worse: In September 2018, Minaj and Cardi B got into a very public physical altercation
at Harper's Bazaar annual Icons party.
Cardi reportedly left the party missing a shoe and sporting a huge bump over her eye
that was roughly the size of a golf ball.
Shortly after the fight, Cardi took to Instagram to accuse Minaj of bad-mouthing her baby:
"When you mention my child…
all bets are f-----g off."
Meanwhile, Minaj denied any wrongdoing on her Queen Radio show:
"I would never talk about anyone's child or parenting.
I don't care about anyone's parenting."
Bad blood with Taylor Swift In a July 2015 tweet, Nicki Minaj took issue
with the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards nominations for "Video of the Year," writing:
"If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid
of the year."
Minaj was clearly alluding to the fact that the racy video for her hit single "Anaconda"
hadn't been nominated.
At the time, Taylor Swift was riding high on the success of her 1989 album… and she
evidently took Minaj's comment as a diss.
In a now-deleted tweet, Swift wrote:
"I've done nothing but love & support you.
It's unlike you to pit women against each other.
Maybe one of the men took your slot."
It didn't take long for Minaj to respond:
"Huh?
You must not be reading my tweets.
Didn't say a word about you.
I love you just as much.
But you should speak on this."
Talking to Good Morning America shortly after the back-and-forth, Minaj suggested the beef
was squashed:
"Um, so she was, you know, super super sweet, and she apologized."
The ladies even teamed up for a duet at the awards ceremony to show solidarity with one
another.
But that solidarity didn't last too long... because Minaj later did a guest vocal on "Swish
Swish," Katy Perry's attempt at a diss track against Swift.
And when Swift dropped "Look What You Made Me Do" in August 2017, Minaj tweeted a particular
Kendrick Lamar lyric that read in part:
"Sit down.
Be humble."
Many fans perceived this as yet another dig at Swift.
Is your brain about to explode?
Going after Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus used to be a big Nicki Minaj fan.
She even dressed up as the "Monster" rapper for Halloween in 2012, and Minaj absolutely
loved the costume, gushing to USA Today:
"She is the best Nicki Minaj impersonator I've seen in my life.
She's adorable!"
Unfortunately, this two-person Mutual Adoration Society didn't last for long.
After Minaj and Taylor Swift had their little Twitter scuffle, Cyrus gave her two cents
to The New York Times, saying:
"What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind.
It's not very polite."
Well, Minaj didn't let Cyrus forget those remarks at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards:
"Back to this [beep] that had a lot to say 'bout me the other day in the press…
Miley, what's good?"
Miley Cyrus immediately fired back at Minaj:
"Hey, we're all in this industry, we all do interviews, and we all know how they manipulate
[blank].
Nicki, congradu-[blank]-ations..."
Iggy Azalea is skeptical
During her acceptance speech for Best Female Hip-Hop artist at the 2014 BET Awards, Minaj
said something that was largely considered to be a huge diss on rapper Iggy Azalea:
"What I want the world to know about NIcki Minaj is: When you hear Nicki Minaj spit,
Nicki Minaj wrote it."
As The New York Daily News reports, Azalea had been facing criticism for allegedly using
ghostwriters for her rhymes.
Minaj may have even done an impromptu Iggy Azalea impersonation.
In March 2016, Azalea probably made matters worse by bringing up the beef on Watch What
Happens Live:
"I have just as many people on my writing credits as she has on hers, so I don't think
there's…
I know I write mine… If she writes hers, I believe her, too."
The feud likely stems from a 2010 tweet by Azalea that mocked Nicki Minaj for, quote,
"saying she did the BET Awards live."
"errrrr.
if you say so girl."
Minaj responded to that tweet, writing:
"Laughing at s--- you can't even do … study dat formula … cornball."
Mariah Carey didn't feel safe
"Clean them ears out."
Sure, Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey collaborated on the underrated breakup song "Up Out My
Face" in January 2010... but when they worked together again on American Idol in 2012, they
were reportedly at each other's throats.
"Let me get off the cam."
"Nicki's mad, she's walking out."
"That was my move, I was gonna do that the next time she ragged on me."
One backstage brawl allegedly involved Minaj berating Carey and threatening to, quote,
"knock her teeth out."
Minaj reportedly also said:
"If I had a gun, I would shoot her."
Multiple sources confirmed the gun remark... including Mariah Carey, who told Barbara Walters:
"It felt like an unsafe work environment.
Anytime anybody's reeling threats at somebody."
Carey said that Minaj's alleged outburst was, quote, "not appropriate," especially since
she was "on the road with two babies."
"I'm not gonna take any chances, so yeah, I did hire more security."
Minaj denied ever threatening Carey in a tweet, writing:
"Let's just say Nicki said something about a gun.
People will believe it cuz she's a black rapper."
In a subsequent 2015 radio interview, Carey was asked if she'd ever come back to American
Idol:
"Hell no.
Absolutely not.
That was the worst experience of my life."
Well, we can't imagine why that might be.
"I wanna lose three pounds."
"I know how you can."
"It's a quote from Mean Girls, if you knew Mean Girls, girl.."
"I know Mean Girls…"
Lil' Kim, big fight
For decades, Lil' Kim went by "Queen Bee" after her late boyfriend Biggie Smalls gave
her the nickname.
But Nicki Minaj later took the "Queen" moniker for herself, which didn't make Kim very happy.
During a 2018 interview with Los Angeles radio station Real Ninety-Two Point Three, Lil'
Kim said:
"I was named that.
I never named myself that.
It's a difference when the streets name you that.
Biggie named me that.
I didn't name myself."
Lil Kim was asked what started her beef with Minaj in a 2012 interview with Power 105's
The Breakfast Club:
"I never had a problem with her.
I was always nice with her.
Always.
She was a very obnoxious person, but I was always nice with her."
She went on to claim Minaj copied her sound, talked smack behind her back, and, quote,
"wanted to be the only female" rapper in the game.
The feud was still simmering in June 2018 when Kim told Entertainment Tonight she didn't
"know" Minaj… all while praising Cardi B:
"What do you make of Cardi B and Nicki Minaj?"
"You know, Cardi is my girl, I don't know the other one, but Cardi is my girl and so
I'm so excited for my girl Cardi!"
Finally, by August 2018, Kim sounded ready to let the beef die, telling Real Ninety-Two
Point Three:
"God bless her, what she did she did, but you know what, God bless her I wish her the
best.
I'm past that, I'm over it."
Did Minaj stab Safaree Samuels?
In a 2015 diss track called "Lifeline," Nicki Minaj's ex Safaree Samuels claimed he ghost-wrote
several of Minaj's lyrics on The Pinkprint.
Then in 2018, he turned around and denied he'd ghost-written anything.
This inspired Minaj to go off on him in an interview with Hot 97:
"So now years later you want to come back and say, 'Oh by the way, I lied,' years later
after you tried to tarnish my image…?"
In response to that interview, Samuels tweeted:
"That looks like some1 who either still cares or just holding on to a lot of hate towards
someone."
That's when all hell broke loose.
Minaj accused Safaree of stealing from her, tweeting:
"You stole my card and told me you thought it was an account with 'free money' that I
didn’t know about."
Um, then Safaree responded with a tweet accusing Minaj of stabbing him:
"Remember the night you cut me and I almost died the police and ambulance had to take
me out the crib on a stretcher and I had to lie and tell them I was trying to kill myself
so they wouldn't take you to jail?"
Minaj never actually denied cutting Samuels, opting instead to change the subject to hair
restoration.
Travis Scott's Minaj problem
When Travis Scott's album Astroworld dropped a week and twelve hours before Nicki Minaj's
record Queen, it blocked her from having a Number One debut.
Minaj was furious.
She even pointed the finger at Scott's wife Kylie Jenner and their baby, Stormi Webster
for promoting the album, tweeting:
"I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie
Jenner post a tour pass telling people to come see her and Stormi."
Minaj put it a different way in an interview with Ellen:
"When someone says how they feel, they're not always upset or angry."
"Well what were you feeling?"
"I felt like I wanted to punch him in his f------ face."
"Okay!"
After all Minaj's ranting, TMZ reported that Scott and Jenner had their seats moved away
from Minaj at the MTV Video Music Awards.
In fact, video footage even reportedly showed Jenner pivoting away from Minaj on the red
carpet.