Nicki Minaj is as soon as once more attacking one other youthful, prettier, and extra profitable girl, including to her now tainted legacy of being anti-woman and solidifying the truth that it’s time to name her what she actually is: bitter. We’ve got to lastly reckon with the truth that her contributions to the tradition are outweighed by the harm she’s performed to it.
Let’s begin with the most recent tirade. In true Nicki Minaj vogue, she took to X, previously Twitter, earlier this month to assault SZA — a girl seven years her junior and 5 Grammys outdoors of her tax and success bracket — throughout a heated change with TDE President, Punch.
After trying to be the larger girl, SZA determined to reply to Minaj’s shade. Minaj went on to say that SZA “has been attempting to inform the world she wrote for Beyoncé each different different enterprise day,” referring to the R&B hitmaker’s co-writing credit score on the Beyoncé’s hit file “Feelin’ Myself” that includes the rapper, writing:
“Nicki. You completely know my music and what I contribute trigger you’ve requested for options twice to no response . Along with rapping my lyrics on feeling myself ‘Cooking up the bass trying like a kilo’? Lol ur having a second ..im unsure why however be blessed.”
After being bested with receipts, Minaj continued her barrage of insults on X, accusing the multi-award-winning artist of getting “faux freckles” earlier than itemizing her personal former success and skipping over when she had faux accents, hair, and lyrics (everyone knows Safaree was writing these bars). As soon as once more, highlighting that this isn’t an try at skilled besting; it’s a girl blatantly tearing down one other girl for no obvious purpose apart from she’s extra profitable, a degree she makes clear along with her response to the details.
“Did you take a look at the venues I performed on my OWN headlined FESTIVAL tour in a foreign country final 12 months? B***h have you ever ever headlined to 80K ppl?” she requested in a prolonged, extremely important tweet, omitting that the one tour she was scheduled to co-headline was canceled as a consequence of authorized troubles.
Minaj additionally attacked SZA’s singing skills, her look (calling her “musty” and “fats, chubby, and thin” on the identical time), and saying she was “insecure” for releasing LANA as a deluxe version of SOS over a 12 months after the album’s preliminary launch as a substitute of placing it out as its personal album; referring to her as “MZA,” saying she’s been “depressing” for almost twenty years. In an try to rally her hyperactive fan base, Minaj goes on to accuse SZA of cozying as much as the identical folks she used to diss, earlier than naming Rihanna and Ciara.
Chile, I can’t, however this habits isn’t new. Nicki’s rap sheet of beef with girls is lengthy and exhausting: Lil’ Kim, Mariah Carey, Taylor Swift, Remy Ma, Cardi B, Ok. Michelle, SZA, Miley Cyrus, Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, and extra not too long ago, Beyoncé.
In 2009, she advised VladTV that ladies in hip-hop weren’t profitable as a result of they have been too “catty” and forgot the “enterprise” aspect of issues. Paradoxically, Minaj has grow to be the very drawback she as soon as claimed to be rising above. Whereas she modeled her grind after the male-dominated blueprint of success, she adopted the worst traits of it—gatekeeping, gaslighting, and women-bashing.
Whether or not it’s behind-the-scenes sabotage or on-the-record shade, Nicki’s model has lengthy centered on being the self-appointed queen who masquerades as a misunderstood feminist however as a substitute tears down any girl approaching her throne, and now it’s time to get actual about why that’s—bitterness.
Let’s kick issues off with the physique and tried slut shaming by a girl whose butt actually flipped over on stage on TV, who can be the spouse of a registered intercourse offender; it’s clear that self-love is a sore spot for her as a result of she’s not as younger or as common as she was.
Even previous to her spat with SZA and TDE, Minaj was again on-line, bitterly taking intention at Beyoncé and Jay-Z for as soon as once more being greater stars than she is because of her personal private selections and alignments.
Nicki and I are across the identical age, and it’s unhappy to see a middle-aged girl who’s clearly peaked, using ways of a highschool imply lady as a substitute of her expertise to development. This development of assault as a substitute of collaboration is normally a transfer of desperation, utilized by an individual who is aware of that their quarter-hour are up. They notice that irrespective of what number of bots the label creates to help your on-line delusion, you’re now a literal loser in actual life.
For me, that is heartbreaking as a result of I rooted for Minaj and championed the “boss b—tch” narrative that she entered the sport with. I purchased into the lie that she was a “lady’s lady” who wished to see girls win in an business dominated by males and believed it was our time to shine. However as a substitute of utilizing her time, title, and affect whereas at its strongest state to uplift and encourage these behind you, you selected to tear them down. You dropped your collaborative mindset and transitioned into pondering you have got the privilege of a white girl to throw rocks and play sufferer. It’s the identical formulation Nicki has used for over a decade: gaslight, assault, play sufferer, rinse, repeat.
That is now not about pleasant rivalry, and hip-hop has at all times had beef. Nicki’s drawback isn’t competitors; it’s girls, and the receipts are lengthy.
Even outdoors of music, her private selections converse volumes. From supporting her brother, who was convicted of sexual assault towards his stepdaughter, with $100,000 bail and public reward, to working with recognized predator, Tekashi 6ix9ine, and trying to deflect criticism by dragging Girl Gaga into the mess, Nicki Minaj has proven a constant disregard for ladies’s security and solidarity.
Her legacy is now not outlined by her music, her file gross sales, and even her early cultural impression, however as a substitute riddled with imply tweets fueled by insecurity, pointless trolling, and the bridges she’s burned with girls who as soon as seemed as much as her. It’s actually time to mute Nicki Minaj and every other hater who doesn’t contribute to tradition, however as a substitute bastardizes and degrades.
And lastly, Nicki Minaj isn’t a misunderstood queen; she’s a former and bitter one, and it’s time we stated it out loud.
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