Nicki Minaj and Cardi B have once again engaged in a heated social media feud, reviving tensions that have simmered for years.
The latest confrontation began on Monday when Minaj, 42, appeared to mock the promotional price of Cardi’s newest album Am I the Drama?, tweeting only, “$4.99.” She later deleted the posts but continued her attacks, dubbing Cardi, 32, “Barney Dangerous” and sharing an AI-generated image portraying her as the purple dinosaur.
Minaj also took aim at Cardi’s album sales and her pregnancy, turning lyrics from Cardi’s song Magnet into a pointed freestyle:
“Abcdefgeeeeeeee. SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY,” she wrote.
She added: “Abcdefgeeeeeeee / Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy. RUNNING TRAINS / Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee.”
Cardi B fired back on Tuesday, brushing off Minaj’s jabs and explaining she had been “baking ribs and making blondie brownies” when the attacks came. She didn’t hold back, calling Minaj a “cocaine barbie” and an “annoying bored b**ch” who “must have missed me,” and also referencing Minaj’s husband and her brother Jelani Maraj, who was convicted of child rape in 2017.
Cardi defended her album’s commercial performance and challenged Minaj to compare herself to other top artists instead of her:
“Why you keep bringing up my album? It’s not the gag that you think it is. You been in the game like 16 years, you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time,” Cardi tweeted.
She continued: “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?”
On the topic of pregnancy, Cardi also criticized Minaj’s fertility struggles: “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,” she wrote.
