Why Are Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Fighting Now? – Vulture

Why Are Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Fighting Now? Photo-Illustration: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images; Noam Galai/Getty Images for Global Citizen The beef between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj — which has been a long-simmering perpetual stew since at least 2018 — heated up on X this week. The two rappers traded low blows online over each other’s appearance, fertility, children, and more. The ill will between Minaj and Cardi has been present for seven-plus years at this point. It has almost become one of those fights where you can’t even remember how it started, you know? But Vulture remembers. So here’s the TL;DR about the latest spat between Barbie and Bardi and the lore behind it. Minaj appeared to be upset that Cardi B has a new album out. That’s really where this one starts, according to TMZ. First, she tweeted “$4.99,” the sale price for Am I the Drama? She then began reworking the lyrics of Cardi’s diss track “Magnet” to be Cardi shade. “Abcdefgeeeeeeee,” Minaj wrote in now-deleted tweets, “SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY.” In the same run of tweets, Minaj took aim at
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