Cardi B and Nicki Minaj’s long-standing feud escalated after the latter accused her fellow rapper of inflating sales of her latest album.
The drama started on Monday, September 29, when Minaj, 42, mocked Cardi’s new album, Am I the Drama?, in a series of since-deleted tweets. In one X post, Minaj simply wrote, “$4.99,” seemingly a reference to the promotional iTunes price of Cardi’s second album.
In another since-deleted post, Minaj took aim at Cardi’s pregnancy while parodying the lyrics of the Am I the Drama? track “Magnet.”
“Abcdefgeeeee / Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy / RUNNING TRAINS,” Minaj wrote. “Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee.”
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Cardi, 32, didn’t take the insults lying down, firing back in a series of X posts later on Monday night.
“Nothing more annoying than a bored btch,” she wrote. “The power I have.. make these btches come out of rehab everytime. Go to your f***ing room.”
The Grammy winner went on to refer to Minaj as “Cocaine Barbie” before referencing Minaj’s brother Jelani Maraj’s conviction for predatory assault against an 11-year-old girl. (Maraj, 46, was found guilty in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years to life in 2020.)
“A B C D E F G / Your man have to snatch P**** / P**** taste like honey comb Your bro be touching 12 year olds,” Cardi wrote. In a separate tweet, she shared a photo of Maraj’s mugshot altered to show him wearing a hot pink wig.
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“Naaaa cuz I was really baking ribs and making blondie brownies and here come this btch bothering me on a damn Monday,” she added. “Damn she was streaming Magnet hard as hell huh?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.”
The “Bodak Yellow” rapper went on to suggest that Minaj stop comparing herself to Cardi and instead focus on artists who debuted around the same time she did.
“Why you keep bringing up my album?? It’s not the gag that you think it is,” Cardi wrote. “You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time. Rihanna, [Taylor Swift], Drake…those are the numbers you need to be competing wit and you can’t cuz you doing lower than all of them… I was in high school when you came out wtf is you comparing yourself to me for???”
She also slammed Minaj for referencing her pregnancy. (Cardi recently announced that she is expecting her first baby with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. She already shares daughters Kulture, 7, and Blossom, 12 months, and son Wave, 4, with estranged husband Offset.)
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“Alright now this the third tweet talkin about my pregnancy… like you wasn’t going to different fertility doctors cuz you couldn’t reproduce from all them percs scrambling your eggs,” Cardi claimed in an X post. “NOT ALLEGEDLY…Lord protect my babies.”
Other rappers weighed in on the drama as well, with Ice Spice seemingly responding by tweeting a laughing emoji. JT of the City Girls, meanwhile, appeared to take Minaj’s side after Cardi took aim at her on “Magnet.”
“Lol that bitch home ugly & mad no celebration!” wrote JT, 32, before echoing Minaj’s claim that Cardi inflated her sales numbers. “I would’ve been break dancing right now if I was #1 but she know she lied!!!!!”
