In the rap world, time does not heal all wounds.
The longstanding feud between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj is far from over after the rappers rekindled their tension with each other on social media this week.
The “Starships” rapper reportedly bashed the sales of Cardi B’s new album, “Am I the Drama?”, following its Sept. 19 release in a series of since-deleted X posts, according to Complex and E! News.
Minaj allegedly insinuated that Cardi B inflated the sales of her new album. To which Cardi B responded with comments of her own on X, saying: “Nothing more annoying than a bored (expletive)” and “You must’ve missed me, huh crazy?? Now kiss my feet.”
In more X posts, Cardi B wondered why Minaj keeps “bringing up the album,” adding that it’s “not the gag that she thinks it is.”
“You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time,” Cardi B wrote on X in a separate Sept. 29 post, referring to Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Drake.
“Those are the numbers you need to be competing wit and you can’t cuz you doing lower than all of them,” she wrote.
The two rappers have a history of trading jabs with one another throughout the years.
Dating as far as 2018, during their infamous New York Fashion Week fight, when someone saw Cardi B try to attack Minaj at a party before security guards intervened, per The Associated Press.
Video circulating on social media at the time showed Cardi B lunging toward someone before being escorted out.
Cardi B is currently expecting her fourth baby with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. She shares kids Kulture, 8, Wave, 3, and Blossom, 12 months, with ex Offset.
What did Nicki Minaj say about Cardi B?
According to screenshots shared by Complex, Minaj made fun of Cardi B on X in several posts, including one that claimed the “I Like It” rapper had undergone surgery to resemble her.
“Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy / RUNNING TRAINS,” Minaj reportedly wrote. “Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee.”
She also mocked a lyric off the new track “Magnet” where Cardi B rapped: “A-B-C-D-E-F-G / these [expletive] can’t [expletive] with me.” Minaj, in her post, allegedly wrote: “Abcdefgeeeeeeee. SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEE.”
Among Cardi B’s online responses was one that read: “She was streaming Magnet hard as hell huh??”
What did Cardi B say about Nicki Minaj?
The heated exchange between the two went into Wednesday, Oct. 1, as Minaj and Cardi B continued to call each other names and went as far as involving their respective family members, including their parents and children.
Cardi B made a supposed final response where she said Minaj needs to go to therapy and heal from trauma. “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,” she wrote.
She added that she refuses to throw away her own career and endorsements, going back and forth with Minaj, whom she called a “possessed drug addict.”
Nicki Minaj urges fans to boycott Cardi B
Taunts and insults weren’t enough for Minaj, who seemingly asked her fans to boycott every company that has ties to Cardi B.
“We will boycott every company attached to her. Just like we did with BET,” she wrote, referencing her decision to pull out of a summer 2019 performance for BET after the network aimed a rude tweet at her following Cardi B’s best rap album win for “Invasion of Privacy.”
“Every company that enabled her disgusting remarks about children & other marginalized groups FOR YEARS you have 3 days to cut ties. That is it,” Minaj added. “That is all. Enjoy your day. We have the receipts.”
“And if you are still underestimating my influence, try me.”
Cardi B tension comes after Nicki Minaj feuds with SZA
Minaj is no stranger to public feuds, having publicly argued with artists from Megan Thee Stallion to SZA.
On July 15, the rapper aired grievances with Grammy-winning singer SZA with digs toward her music, popularity and appearances. Minaj claimed she was being bullied by SZA’s manager and Top Dawg Entertainment label president, Terrence “Punch” Henderson.
She also criticized SZA’s decision to release a deluxe album titled “LANA,” a continuation of her 2022 “SOS” record, last December.
Minaj wrote that SZA “put out a whole new album as a deluxe to an already existing album that was out for like a year or 2 so the original album could break records. Like what in the insecure lack of morals & integrity you doing?”
In her response, SZA replied, with alleged text evidence screenshots: “Nicki. You absolutely know my music and what I contribute, cause you’ve asked for features twice to no response.”
“Lol ur having a moment ..im not sure why but be blessed,” SZA added.
There was also a very public feud between Minaj and “Hot Girl Summer” collaborator Megan Thee Stallion last year.
Megan released a scathing diss track titled “Hiss,” that allegedly took aim at Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty with one lyric referencing the sex offender law Megan’s Law (Petty was convicted of attempted first-degree rape in 1995, while Minaj’s brother Jelani Maraj is also a registered sex offender).
