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Divas, divas, divas…we love them for his or her grace, their magnificence and most significantly their musical expertise. Nevertheless, typically they’ll’t appear to see in one another all of the glowing qualities that we idolize from the skin trying in. OK, extra like quite a lot of instances they appear to not take a look at their fellow queens as royalty, even going so far as beginning real-life feuds that may final over many many years and battles on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
We’re sadly within the midst of yet one more brewing “diva battle royal,” this time between two R&B icons that we’d a lot moderately not see budding heads: ethereal neo-soul goddess Erykah Badu and single-name-queen-of-everything Beyoncé, at present on her globally epic RENAISSANCE World Tour.
See under to peep what sparked the now-viral Bey vs. ‘Baduizm’ beef:
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For the sake of numerous hits between them, starting from “Tyrone” to “THIQUE” — “Bag Woman” to “Single Women” — we’re making the sensible resolution of not selecting a canine on this catfight. Nevertheless, it did remind us that diva wars are a story as previous as time on the subject of the music biz. From behind-the-scenes battles to wars on wax that acquired lyrically scathing, some feminine artists are merely not about making lovely music collectively, or anything for that matter. Be it pop or R&B, new age hip-hop queens or traditional soul pioneers, we got here throughout a couple of unforgettable moments in music historical past that show our level completely.
As we pray for peace between Erykah Badu and Beyoncé within the very close to future, check out 10 musical diva wars we received’t quickly overlook — some squashed, others nonetheless ongoing and some that have been in all probability so blown out of proportion that issues by no means existed to start with:
2. Patti LaBelle (and The Bluebelles) vs. Diana Ross (and The Supremes)
From consuming eyelashes to stolen appears to be like, we’re simply glad Auntie Patti has been so chatty about her pleasant feud with the ‘Supreme Queen.’
3. Roxanne Shanté vs. The Actual Roxanne
Though this may very well be seen because the rap beef that turned all of it right into a advertising and marketing software, not less than The Roxannes made it entertaining — all 100 responses!
4. Janet Jackson vs. Madonna
Being that they each impressed each residing feminine pop singer on the planet, we hope these two reigning pop queens have buried this hatchet because the ’90s.
5. Lil Kim vs. Cunning Brown
Whereas we nonetheless haven’t misplaced hope in in the future listening to their once-planned joint album, Thelma & Louise, let’s simply say no one is holding their breath in seeing these lifelong rap enemies ever uniting.
6. Azealia Banks vs. Iggy Azalea
There was loads to unpack on this beef, as Azealia made nice level regarding the lyrics in Iggy’s 2012 freestyle, “D.R.U.G.S.” (‘When the relay begins I’m a runaway slave / Grasp, shitting on the previous gotta spit it like a pastor’), however made it very onerous to facet together with her because of her personal unapologetic bigotry.
7. Mariah Carey vs. Jennifer Lopez
Let’s simply hope that in the future these women actually get an opportunity to “know” one another.
8. Rihanna vs. Ciara
As petty as this was from each angle potential, it made for one very entertaining night time on Twitter — IYKYK!
9. Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B
Hey, perhaps in the future they’ll pull a Jay-Z and Nas on us and are available collectively for the collab of the last decade.
Yeah, in the future…
10. Brandy vs. Monica
From the plausible beef on their iconic duet “The Boy Is Mine” to their respective career-long missions to be checked out as Whitney’s favourite, this was one battle that may’ve seemed dangerous at instances however all the time sounded superb!
