Final night time, the gloves got here out on X as Nicki Minaj and SZA exchanged phrases on the social media platform. The meat ignited a hearth within the Barbz — Nicki Minaj’s fandom — which got here to life to defend their queen to mock SZA. On the identical time, SZA stans reacted by evaluating SZA’s newest musical success to Nicki Minaj’s, claiming that SZA is extra profitable. However how did this all begin? Right here’s the breakdown.
The meat began with SZA’s supervisor, Punch TDE (TDE stands for Prime Dawg Leisure, an unbiased report label), posting two phrases: “Damaged Barbies,” the identify of a tune he was selling by the artist iAMLYRIC. The tune is linked beneath his publish.
After seeing the publish, Nicki Minaj took it as shade in direction of her and responded with:
“Lol. Y’all do not forget that man from TDE who stored bullying me on Twitter for no motive? We now have the receipts. Lol. I by no means even responded to him. What was his identify once more, y’all? I’m going to provide him a nickname. Ima name him “minus 30 million” any more.”
She then made follow-up posts. One calling him out for bullying ladies and suggesting he would by no means have the identical power for a person. And one other one the place she outlined the acronym TDE as “Tiny D*** Govt.”
So, how does SZA match into this? Effectively, on a separate nook of X, SZA posted, “Mercury retrograde.. don’t take the bait lol foolish goose.”
Maybe shade to Nicki Minaj or possibly a reminder to herself that in astrology, when Mercury is in retrograde, it’s a time of miscommunication. An astrology follower, SZA is understood to imagine in astrology and has posts that date again so far as 2015, the place she posts about Mercury Retrograde.
Nonetheless, if it’s Mercury Retrograde inflicting miscommunication points, the “Tremendous Bass” rapper took the bait.
“Go draw your freckles again on bookie. Liar Liar pants on hearth. Sounding like fking useless canine,” Minaj posted.
Minaj’s response to SZA had the app go up in flames as their fandoms collided. SZA replied, saying, “I don’t give a f*** about none of that bizarre s**** you popping.”
The snooze singer then responded to the Barbz, who got here to defend Nicki Minaj, and advised them to achieve some perspective and bark at a wall. She additionally posted a screenshot exhibiting the success of her SOS tour after Barbz insinuated that she wouldn’t be capable to have a profitable solo tour. Nonetheless, she quickly bowed out of the meat and went again to posting about her music:
“Lemme return to being calm, shy, and meek. Y’all have a blessed night time! See you tomorrow for night time 2 Paris!!”
The “Second 4 Life” rapper, nevertheless, continued to make a sequence of posts calling SZA a foul singer, discussing her weight, her seems, and evaluating her success towards SZA’s.
As Nicki Minaj continued to go off and followers continued to defend her, many individuals on-line expressed disappointment about how their as soon as favourite rapper has develop into a “loser.”
“It’s so unhappy to see somebody who was as soon as so nice develop into such a f*****’ loser like this my god. Her youthful self could be so embarrassed of this conduct like,” posted one consumer.
“Rising up is realizing that Nicki, Drake & Wayne are among the greatest losers within the rap sport,” posted one other.
“Go get a Grammy,” posted one other consumer with photos of all the ladies Minaj has had both rap or on-line beef with holding their Grammys.
There’s a principle on-line that almost all of Nicki Minaj’s anger with the ladies she has argued with stems from the truth that they’ve obtained a Grammy earlier than her.
“You’re 50 [Nicki Minaj is 42]… at what age are you gonna cease beefing with folks on Twitter,” requested one other consumer.
Whereas the Barbz proceed to ruthlessly defend their Queen, it seems like the vast majority of the web is over the drama relating to Nicki Minaj and misses the times when the primary subject was her music.
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