Nicki Minaj explodes on ‘musty' SZA in bitter social media feud: ‘I know you're not THAT stupid'

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5 days ago

We can't hit snooze on this fight.
On Tuesday, Nicki Minaj slammed fellow female rapper SZA in a lengthy post on X.
'Wait. Does Sza think she's more successful than me? Lol yall catch me up pls,' the 12-time Grammy nominee, 42, began. 'Sza if every song you've ever done vanished right now the music business wouldn't even miss you. I've been to countries that never heard of you. I know you're not THAT stupid are you? Stadiums?'
10 SZA attends the WSJ. Magazine 2023 Innovator Awards.
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Minaj continued, 'Did you look at the venues I played on my OWN headlined FESTIVAL tour out of the country last year? Bitch have you ever headlined to 80K ppl? Btch what have you ever done besides yodel with auto tune that needed retuning? Boo im an icon. You're not. The end.'
The heated attack didn't stop there. The 'Pink Friday' rapper alleged that SZA, 35, didn't defend her 'when your exec was bullying & harassing me.'
'You the type that would've been quiet in school trying to fit in,' Minaj added. 'You still have no clue who you are! I know you went nights w/o washing that musty face. Btch how u remember exactly where every freckle go?'
The feud seemingly started when the 'Starships' singer called out Terrence 'Punch' Henderson, the president of Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) label, which SZA is signed to, for bullying her 'on Twitter for no reason,' per Billboard.
'So glad I have proof of being bullied by AND being lied on by a man PUBLICLY,' Minaj said on X Tuesday, 'on a platform I use for my JOB; after I rejected his business proposition on more than one occasion.'
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SZA then shared a cryptic message on the social media platform, tweeting, 'Mercury retrograde.. don't take the bait lol silly goose.'
Despite not naming names, Minaj assumed the message was about her and replied, 'Go draw your freckles back on bookie.'
'Bitch looking & sounding like she got stung by a f–king bee,' Minaj said in another post on X. 'Dot dot dot *Draws on my fake freckles.*'
10 SZA performs on The Pyramid Stage during day five of Glastonbury Festival 2024.The hip-hop artist also took a jab at SZA's career accomplishments.
The musician's 2022 album, 'SOS,' went 9x Platinum in under three years. This achievement made SZA the only Black artist to ever spend more than 80 weeks in the Billboard 200's Top 10 chart. She even beat Michael Jackson's previous record, reported Billboard.
According to Minaj, the accomplishment wasn't warranted.
'B–ch put out a whole new album as a deluxe to an already existing album that was out for like a year or 2 so the original album could break records,' she exclaimed. 'Like what in the insecure lack of morals & integrity you doing? I thought she was like a real artist? Girl bye.'
10 Nicki Minaj performs during 2024 Dreamville Music Festival.
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SZA didn't take the bait.
'I get bullied by millions online every day then step my ass out onna packed stadium tour where ppl show me REAL love . IN REAL LIFE,' the Grammy winner told followers on X. 'My parents are healthy and I'm the most successful I ever been . GET SOME F–KING PERSPECTIVE n BARK AT THE WALL !!!'
'Lmao lemme go back to being calm shy and meek,' SZA concluded in her last tweet. 'Yall have blessed night ! See you tomorrow for night 2 Paris !!'
The singer and Kendrick Lamar's second show at the Paris La Défense Arena takes place tonight, on Wednesday, July 16.
10 Nicki Minaj at the 2024 Met Gala.
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Meanwhile, this isn't the first time Minaj has gone toe-to-toe with another female rapper. She and Cardi B have gone back and forth for years.
Despite fans being unable to pinpoint what caused the turmoil between the superstars, some believe it started in 2017 when Katy Perry released her diss track 'Swish Swish.'
Minaj rapped, 'Silly rap beefs just get me more checks / My life is a movie, I'm never off set / Me and my amigos (no, not Offset).'
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Cardi B, 32, was allegedly not pleased with the line mentioning her now ex, Offset, 33.
'I hate this s–t, I really, really do. A bitch like me, I was happier when I was macking in the hood. This s–t right here is so fake,' Cardi B said on Instagram Live shortly after the song was released.
'When I used to be a regular bitch from the Bronx — a hood bitch — when somebody used to be fake to me it was cool because I could approach a bitch and punch her right in her closure… Now that I'm in the industry, you don't work like that, just have to watch s–t go, watch s–t go.'
10 SZA is seen on March 11, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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'You gotta see people play you and just say nothing like a d–k. That s–t is so wack my n—alike that s–t be breaking my heart because the people, your idols, become rivals,' she added.
The two continued to subtweet each other on Twitter in the months that followed, and at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Cardi B explained she wanted to put the feud rumors to rest.
'I mean, I don't really want problems with anybody,' she told Billboard at the time. 'I don't want to be, like, queen. I don't wanna be no this. I don't wanna be no that. I just wanna make music and make money. I really don't have time to look at other women, what they doing.'
10 Nicki Minaj performs onstage during her Pink Friday 2 World Tour at Madison Square Garden.
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However, the two came to blows at New York Fashion Week in 2018 when they both attended Harper's Bazaar Icons bash.
Cardi B famously hurled a shoe at Minaj, was escorted out of the Plaza, and photographed with a giant knot on her forehead.
'It started because someone pushed Cardi from behind. She went flying,' a source told Page Six at the time. Another claimed Cardi started it, adding that during the brawl, she 'was standing there with her dress ripped and underwear showing and yelling with a bunch of guys holding her back.'
10 SZA performs at the Glastonbury Festival 2024.Someone else who witnessed the heated interaction claimed, 'Cardi started screaming something about her child.'
'She was yelling, 'Bitch you feisty. Bitch don't talk s–t about my child,' they told People.
Cardi B has daughters Kulture, 7, and Blossom, 10 months, and son Wave, 3, with Offset. Minaj, meanwhile, welcomed her son with husband Kenneth 'Zoo' Petty in 2020.
After the altercation, Minaj wrote online: 'I've let a lot of s–t slide! I let you sneak diss me, I let you lie on me, I let you attempt to stop my bags, f–k up the way I eat! You've threaten other artists in the industry, told them if they work with me you'll stop f–king with them!! I let you talk big s–t about me!!'
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She also denied ever speaking negatively about Cardi's daughter, Kulture.
'I just want people to know that Onika Tanya Maraj has never, will never… speak ill on anyone's child. I am not a clown. That's clown s–t,' Minaj said on her 'Queen Radio' show.