And that’s to say nothing of Minaj’s most infamous public battles-you may remember when she blamed her slower-than-she’d-hoped album sales on Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner’s daughter, Stormi, who was 6 months old at the time, or when she asked Miley Cyrus “ What’s good?” on live TV at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, or even the brief Twitter spat between Minaj and Taylor Swift (though they did make up, and I personally blame the former country princess for that one). A list of these feuds includes but is not limited to fights in 2007 with fellow female rapper Remy Ma, whose worthiness of the moniker “the queen of rap” Minaj debated with rapper Lil’ Kim, after a miscommunication in 2009 turned into ire and with Mariah Carey, whom Minaj argued with while both were judges on American Idol in 2012. To understand the Nicki-Megan fallout, it’s important to understand Minaj’s history of beefing with other people (mostly women) in the industry. Is there anything I need to know before we dive into this maelstrom that dominated social media over the weekend? It can be hard to make heads or tails of how things spiraled so quickly, but don’t fret! Let’s break it all down. In December, Minaj released her long-awaited album Pink Friday 2, making her the female rapper with the most chart-topping albums to date, and both women had songs on the soundtracks of popular films-Megan with a feature on a song alongside Reneé Rapp for the Mean Girls movie, and Minaj with a song on the Barbie soundtrack with rapper Ice Spice. This has been a particularly intense turn of events because just a few months ago, the two rappers were on top of the world. This current episode of their beef erupted on Friday, when Megan released her song “Hiss.” But the story of the dispute that has landed us here is actually a long and complex one full of twists and turns, with Megan posting ominous screenshots from anime series on Instagram and Minaj going down a multiday public spiral that has drawn comparisons to that episode of SpongeBob SquarePants when the titular sea sponge experiences a momentary psychotic break. If you opened any social app on your electronic device this past weekend, you were likely greeted with the names of popular female rappers Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion, who are currently embroiled in a very public feud.
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