I always forget Ciara and Rihanna had a mini feud until I see these shady tweets pop up.
They recently came across my feed a few days ago and I decided I finally wanted to find
out the backstory behind them.
Back in February of 2011, Rihanna sent out some scathing tweets to ciara that eventually
went viral.
The most 2011 thing about Rihanna’s tweets is that they were sent from a blackberry.
In response to ciara tweeting rihanna wouldn't want to catch her on or off stage, rihanna
responded by saying, Good luck booking that stage you speak of.
For context, Rihanna was in the middle of her successful Loud era.
From february to November 2011, she was on the Loud tour promoting the album.
While on tour, she recorded her album Talk that Talk, which was released shortly after
the loud tour ended.
Rihanna was a global superstar, who’s fame would only exponentially increase in the years
to follow.
Ciara herself is a successful R&B act in her own right with hits like goodies and one two
step.
However, Ciara saw most of her success in the early to mid 2000s.
At the time, her most recent album, Fantasy Ride, was released 2 years prior in 2009.
It went #3 on the billboard hot 200, and produced the certified bop love sex magic with justin
timberlake.
My little purple ipod nano did not let this song breathe.
Fantasy Ride was well received, and had features from artists like missy elliot and jeezy,
as well as producers like darkchild, The Dream and Ne-Yo on it.
So though Ciara wasn’t in her heyday at this time, the album was by no means a flop.
She accompanied Britney Spears on her Circus tour to promote the album, and also did a
6-show tour with jay-z that summer to promote.
By 2011, she had signed to Epic Records and had begun recording her self-titled album
that would be released in 2013.
Apparently all the Twitter drama started as a result of a comment Ciara made about Rihanna
on Fashion Police.
Ciara had said, “I ran into her recently at a party and she wasn’t the nicest, and
it’s crazy because I’ve always loved and respected what she’s done with fashion and
I’ve ran into her, you know, before but this time it was really…
it wasn’t the most pleasant run-in…”
Rihanna didnt take too kindly to Ciara’s revelation.
She called Ciara out on Twitter, saying, “My bad ci, did I 4get to tip u? #howrudeofme.”
This is when Ciara responded, Trust me Rihanna, you don’t want to see me on or off the stage,
and then Rihanna went for her throat.
Rihanna tweeted, "U gangsta huh?
Haaa" , and then followed it up with her now infamous tweet “good luck bookin that stage
u speak of”.
(get her jade) I’m not saying Ciara was right to put Rihanna
on blast on TV, but her behavior on Twitter seemed to kind of confirm what Ciara was saying
about her.
But on the other hand, I can’t say I wouldn’t come for someone who talked about me on TV
unprompted.
I don’t know if it was fair though for Rihanna to act like Ciara was a flop.
It was Funny, but yeah, unfair and maybe not that accurate.
Of course, ciara wasn’t as big as rihanna at the time, but very few artists were.
Yeah, Ciara wasn’t at all doing the numbers Rihanna was, but she wasn’t entirely unbooked
and unbusy.
Ciara responded, tweeting “pure comedy” in an attempt to show she was unbothered by
Rihanna’s attack.
Rihanna then tweeted an apology saying, Ciara baby, I love u girl!
U hurt my feelings real bad on TV!
I’m heartbroken!
That’s y I retaliated this way!
So sorry!
#letsmakeup”.
I always think it’s funny when celebs get a little too bold on Twitter and then want
to try to take something back like thousands of people haven’t already read it and shared
it.
But it also reminds us that celebrities are just like us but with a way bigger platform.
Because I’m sure we’ve all been in little social media spats here and there, and then
later regret or delete the post.
We just have the luxury of very few people seeing the things we post on social media
in the heat of the moment.
Ciara then seemed to forgive Rihanna’s apology and said, “Rhi u know its always been love
since day 1!
Doing shows/everything.
you threw me off in that party!
Apology accepted.
Let’s chat in person.”
Rihanna never responded to Ciara’s Tweet.
SZA weighed in on the beef, saying, “I don’t get it, neither rihanna or ciara can hold
a note worth a damn… ones just worth the other.
So what’s the beef?”
i feel like thats a bold tweet coming from someone who literally sings in wingdings.
At least i dont need to google the damn lyrics to tell what rihanna and ciara are saying.
I just want to point out that the Twitter feud between rihanna and ciara started at
11:02 pm, and was settled by 12:01 am.
So within 59 minutes, Rihanna called Ciara out, Ciara responded, they threw shots at
each other, and then resolved the feud.
Two years later, Rihanna seemed to reignite tensions by making fun of Ciara while she
was promoting her new single Body Party.
Ciara posted an Instagram video of her singing the song.
Later, one of Rihanna’s cousins posted a photo of herself, Rihanna, and a friend looking
at something on a phone and smiling.
One of the tags on the Instagram post was #BodyParty, clearly referencing Ciara’s
song.
She also tweeted a link to the instagram post.
Ciara retweeted the post, responding, “Don’t have time 4 the silliness.
Grow Up and Do Something Positive with ya selves for once.
God Bless”.
In an interview about a month later, Ciara said, “I don't have beef with anybody, but
I'm not going to be disrespected either.
I wish her well.
I don't know what her problem is.
I think she's nuts right now, like, whatever's going on, because for me, it doesn't make
any sense.
She has a lot of good things going on with herself.
A lot of good things I've always said I've been happy for her.
I don't get it.
I really don't, but I wish her well.
I wish her positivity.”
Sidnenote, and this isn’t just about Ciara but i HATE when celebs talk about some problem
they have with another famous person and then say “i wish them nothing but love and light
and glitter and rainbows”.
Like, come on now.
Ciara then took to her Twitter account to further talk about Rihanna, saying, “I am
baffled.
The obsession really makes no sense.
This is getting out of hand...," she posted.
"Somebody please point her in the right direction, cuz she clearly needs love and affection..:),”
referring to one of Rihanna’s songs.
Rihanna then reposted a quote from Ciara’s interview and commented, “How u gon hate
from the outside?
Thanks for the free promeaux sis!
When will they start asking her questions about her?
Ciara again addressed the beef in an interview saying, "I can't tell you anything.
You have to ask her.
I mean, she's so vocal, maybe she can say whatever it is.
I don't know.
And at this point, I don't care.
I really don't care.
I wish her well.
She has a lot of great things going on with her.
I mean she's like rockin', doing it really, really, really big.
We're women in this.
It don't need to be all that.
She's got too much good going on to even be consumed with that kind of energy so I don't
know.
I wish her well."
Rihanna of course responded via her Instagram saying, "Why am I still the main topic of
her interviews!!
She don't be shame tho?
How she let em play her like that everytime??
It's like, 'yea I know you're here about (insert album title) but we wanna talk about a more
relevant topic...
Rihanna!!!"Like she sits there and falls for it everytime!!!!
To be fair, if I kept getting asked about someone I was beefing with in interviews,
I’d eventually start hitting people with no comment and keep it pushing, especially
when you know the person is going to comment on your response.
And though Rihanna was being messy, she’s right in saying that Ciara was purposely handing
her spotlight over to Rihanna by allowing her to be to topic of so many of her interviews.
In 2016, Ciara hosted the Billboard Awards with Ludacris.
She was upset by a Tweet MTV had livetweeted during the show, stating, 'Luda, you know
Ciara won't say Rihanna's name.,” when Rihanna was called on stage to accept an award.
Ciara tweeted her disapproval, saying, “Thought She Was Amazing.1 Of The Best Performances
Of The Night Don't Understand The Need 2 Go Here.
#What'sThePoint?'
She then continued firing off tweets, saying, “@MTVMusic There's no way someone of experience
is posting content like that during a show of this caliber.
God Bless #SpreadLove.
Furthermore, who's the 'newbee' tweeting on behalf of MTV?”
Yet again, Ciara couldn’t help but respond.
I’m sure it was annoying to her that people kept bringing up Rihanna, but people only
kept doing it because she herself refused to let it rest.
I also don’t understand why Ciara was so insistent on acting like she never had a problem
with Rihanna and trying to seem overly cordial with her.
Like, they don’t have to like each other.
Instead of responding in every media outlet and interview trying to be as positive as
possible about Rihanna, simply not responding was also an option many of those times.
I also just feel like this was the era where social media was still kind of in its infancy
and celebrities were less composed and diplomatic in their posts.
They tweeted their uncensored thoughts in the moment, which often lead to some funny
feuds, or just plain weird tweets.
Now, social media is a lot more curated, and many celebrities’ social media accounts
are more heavily monitored by their teams.
A lot of celebs are still reckless on the INternet, but a lot of them have also made
the shift away from posting their personal thoughts in a way that might result in a PR
nightmare.
Honestly, I never knew this Rihanna Ciara beef went deeper than the first few Tweets
they exchanged.
Really, it seems like everything after that was unnecessary anyway and at some point somebody
should’ve confiscated their phones.
I do have to say though that Imiss Rihanna’s troll era.
It used to be kind of entertaining to see her have a go at people over the littlest
things, and this feud with Ciara was no different.
Like she really didn’t let Ciara rest.
Also For some reason, I thought Ciara was way older than Rihanna, and I was going to
be like, Ciara should’ve just been more mature about it and ignored Rihanna at some
point.
But Ciara and Rihanna are only like a year and a half apart apparently.
I don’t know why I thought that.
But anyways, these tweets randomly popped up in my feed and I just decided to do a little
investigation on them and figure out all these years later what caused it.
Honestly, I feel like this could be a series where I talk about Rihanna’s twitter beef
because honestly there’s a lot of material there.
I might need to do her beef with teyana taylor next.
Or in general, just random celeb twitter feuds from back in the day.
Let me know what you guys think about that.
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and i’ll see you guys very soon!
bye