Nicki Minaj is at it once more, focusing on SZA in her newest on-line rant.
Supply: Christopher Polk
It began on July 15, when Nicki known as out SZA’s supervisor, Terrence “Punch” Henderson, saying he was “bullying” her on “Twitter for no motive.” It’s unclear the place these allegations stem from, however Punch did tweet about “Damaged Barbies” earlier that morning—and whereas it’s the title of his “Room Full Of Mirrors” groupmate Lyric Michelle’s new tune and has nothing to do with Nicki, she might have jumped to conclusions.
“So glad I’ve proof of being bullied by AND being lied on by a person PUBLICLY,” the rapper wrote on X, “on a platform I take advantage of for my JOB; after I rejected his enterprise proposition on multiple event.”
She continued, “He didn’t speak in confidence to the general public that I had rejected his enterprise propositions—and thereby acted in what seems to be retaliation purposefully used to trigger monetary damages & to have interaction in a smear marketing campaign towards the model.”
Shortly after Nicki’s rant about Punch, SZA took to X along with her personal message, writing, “Mercury retrograde…don’t take the bait lol foolish goose.”
Although the “luther” singer didn’t direct her tweet at anybody particularly, Nicki shortly accused her of subtweeting and instantly jumped into defensive mode.
“Go draw your freckles again on bookie,” she mentioned to SZA in a single tweet. “B***h wanting & sounding like she received stung by a f***ing bee. 😩 dot dot dot *Attracts on my pretend freckles*.”
Minaj additionally known as the singer’s achievements into query, specializing in a current file—her 2022 album SOS, broke information by going 9X-platinum in beneath three years. The milestone made SZA the one Black artist to spend over 80 weeks within the Billboard 200’s High 10 chart, surpassing Michael Jackson’s earlier file, per E! Information.
“B***h put out a complete new album as a deluxe to an already present album that was out for like a 12 months or 2 so the unique album might break information,” Nicki mentioned. “Like what within the insecure lack of morals & integrity you doing? I assumed she was like an actual artist? Woman bye.”
In response to her first tweet calling SZA out, the singer merely replied: “I don’t give a f**okay bout none of that bizarre s**t you popping.”
When one Nicki fan advised SZA she doesn’t wanna begin this feud, the singer replied, “I get bullied by thousands and thousands on-line on daily basis then step my a** out onna packed stadium tour the place ppl present me REAL love. IN REAL LIFE. My dad and mom are wholesome and I’m probably the most profitable I ever been. GET SOME F***ING PERSPECTIVE n BARK AT THE WALL !!!”
One other fan accused her of “inserting herself” right into a state of affairs that didn’t contain her, to which she replied: “I wasn’t even speaking about or to anybody I had simply received off stage talkin bout retrograde . N****S @‘d ME. The F**Okay YES IM MAD NOW DO YOU NEED THAT !??”
In response to SZA’s back-and-forth along with her followers, Nicki continued to rant in regards to the songstress, retweeting AI explanations of why she’s extra profitable than SZA and even leaving voice notes about her disdain for her.
Whereas she didn’t tackle the explanation for her newest rant straight, Nicki did retweet a submit from her fan that appears to embody why she’s upset.
“The entire problem is sza ‘coincidentally’ got here on twitter speaking about ‘not taking bait’ and a ‘retrograde’ that’s not even taking place,” the fan wrote. “After not tweeting since june…till nicki spoke out about her supervisor who’s been harassing nicki since actually 2012…”
On The Breakfast Membership this morning, Loren LoRosa broke down why this beef might have began within the first place, saying she reached out to Punch to ask, “how did we get right here?” In response to their dialog, the TDE President revealed that Minaj reached out again in 2020 a few SZA function, which he mentioned he would go alongside. Nothing ever got here of that interplay, and Punch claims he’s additionally “misplaced” about what brought on Nicki to go off after that.
SZA has made it clear that she’s finished with the forwards and backwards, however realizing Nicki, this case is probably going removed from completed.