For those who awakened this morning and observed Nicki Minaj and Latto trending on Twitter, it is as a result of they acquired into an enormous argument final evening.
It began when it was reported that Nicki Minaj’s music “Tremendous Freaky Woman” can be nominated in pop classes on the 2023 Grammy Awards as a substitute of in rap.
Nicki vented in regards to the transfer on Instagram Stay, mentioning that if her music is not thought-about rap, then songs like Latto’s “Massive Power” should not be both.
“If ‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’ is pop, then so is ‘Massive Power,'” she mentioned. “For those who transfer ‘Tremendous Freaky Woman’ out of rap and put it in pop, do the identical with ‘Massive Power.’ Similar producers on each songs by the way in which, if you wish to speak about it. So let’s preserve shit truthful.”
She continued venting on Twitter, posting this tweet reiterating what she mentioned on the stay.
I’ve no prob being moved out the RAP class so long as we r ALL being handled FAIRLY. If SFG has 2B moved out RAP then so does Massive Power! ANY1 who says diff is solely a Nicki hater or a troll. I’d truly LUV 2 c a extra road file win- male OR feminine! IJS rightIsRight 🫡
And tweeted this one, after a fan pulled out receipts of Latto truly referring to “Massive Power” as a pop music.
Nicki continued to defend her stance in a follow-up tweet, writing: “May you think about somebody telling you to not ‘complain’ about being handled unfairly at your office? That is my job. I work very onerous. No diff from a 9-5 the place you must converse up for your self if you understand you’re an incredible worker & proceed to be purposely sabotaged.” However she additionally encouraged the Barbz to not be ‘”offended” as a result of, effectively, everyone knows how that may go.
Anyway, Latto appeared to enter the chat precisely 17 minutes later, when she tweeted: “Rattling I can’t win for dropping… all these awards/noms I can’t even have a good time.”
And principally, all hell broke unfastened after that.
After they seemingly tried to speak issues out offline, Nicki, as XXL notes, got here again to Twitter with a screenshot of a message Latto appeared to ship her and referred to as her a “Karen” within the caption for not supporting her.
“This Karen has most likely talked about my identify in over 100 interviews,” she wrote within the publish, which has since been deleted. “Says she waited in line for Pink Friday w|her Barbie chain on, bangs, pink hair…however at the moment, scratch off decides to be silent; fairly than converse up for the black girl she referred to as her greatest inspiration. 🫡☺️😘”
Latto then tweeted that her love for Nicki was truly why she tried to speak issues out between them exterior of the web. “1st of all I texted u trigger I didn’t wanna do the web sht w sum1 I regarded as much as. Similar to the first time I DMed u asking about ur ongoing subtweets. I needed to talk up cuz like I mentioned I do agree however the way in which u going about it appears malicious esp. after how we left off.”
1st of all I texted u trigger I didn’t wanna do the web sht w sum1 I regarded as much as. Similar to the first time I DMed u asking about ur ongoing subtweets. I needed to talk up cuz like I mentioned I do agree however the way in which u going about it appears malicious esp. after how we left off https://t.co/e5Z9GQutGe
She then accused Nicki of being a “bully” as she claimed that Nicki has shaded her a number of different instances earlier than. “I’ve ignored numerous subtweets since March and as a substitute addressed u within the dm,” Latto wrote. “You’re asking why I didn’t converse up in ur protection… it’s the identical reply I gave u when u requested why I didn’t congratulate you. Ur actually older than my mother tryna be a bully @NICKIMINAJ.”
I’ve ignored numerous subtweets since March and as a substitute addressed u within the dm. You’re asking why I didn’t converse up in ur protection… it’s the identical reply I gave u when u requested why I didn’t congratulate you. Ur actually older than my mother tryna be a bully @NICKIMINAJ
Quite than responding to her claims in regards to the subtweets, Nicki replied by saying Latto seems older than her precise age. “All this time I assumed you was at the very least 35.”
Latto, who’s 23, BTW, then stored calling Nicki a “40-year-old bully” as she proceeded to tug examples of cases the place she believes Nicki was shading her.
The latest subtweet in query… however I’m finna begin from the start #40yroldbully
And clearly, Nicki did not take too kindly to that. “Age shaming while you appear like YOU the one pushing 40,” she shot again. “Age shaming however was BEGGING for a characteristic. Think about what dem genes gon do in 10 years 😅 Oh so that you in your 20’s. Oh okay then. Not less than it match your [777] album gross sales. You bought 20K proper? Mad u flopped. That’s why u rlly mad 😜”
Latto did not get into any of that — she simply continued to press Nicki on “the place the random shade began coming from.”
I actually named u as my dream collab a number of instances in a number of interviews… like I instructed u otp I regarded as much as u… u nonetheless by no means answered my query about the place the random shade began coming from https://t.co/DpKSKepkVQ
All of it simply acquired actually messy — to the purpose the place Latto ended up calling out Nicki for her connections to males who’ve been accused and convicted of sexual assault — a transparent shot at Nicki’s brother Jelani Maraj and husband Kenneth Petty…
…main Nicki to convey up Latto’s historical past of working with problematic artists like Kodak Black and Dr. Luke, who’ve additionally confronted their very own accusations of sexual assault. Each artists have denied the allegations. Along with that, Nicki additionally talked about the alleged 30-plus-year age hole between Latto’s personal dad and mom.
The argument simply stored going and going and getting messier from there. I personally ended up packing it up and going to mattress because it began to die down. Hopefully, this would be the finish of it. We’ll preserve you up to date if there are any additional updates.
