This is the second time in nearly six weeks Minaj has tried freely going up against Cyrus. It was previously reported that the rapper threw shade at Miley Cyrus when she accepted her award for Best Hip Hop Video. In that different fight, Minaj and Quick butted heads after Quick mixed up Minaj’s tweets for an individual assault. Minaj responded: “They’re men, grown-ass men”, she said.
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Nicki Minaj isn’t given enough credit for her opinions and willingness to back herself. She criticizes Miley Cyrus specifically for having black men and women in her music videos and on stage with her, but not wanting to hear what they have to say. Later, she apologized, and the two superstars reconciled and performed together at the VMAs.
In the same interview, Minaj pointed out that Cyrus can not have things both ways: “If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us”. Minaj singlehandedly managed to bring this event back into relevance by remarking on their unwillingness to recognize black women for their contributions to pop music and pop culture after she was passed over for a Video of the Year nomination.
Minaj, exhausted of attempts to censor or silence her, doesn’t think that Cyrus has taken the time to truly evaluate the issues pertaining to black female artists. “You shouldn’t want to know that”, Minaj added.
“I hate it. It doesn’t make me feel good”.
However, when the reporter pressed if there is “a part of you that thrives on a drama”, Minaj didn’t hesitate to cut to the misogyny at the heart of the question. Nicki asked. “That’s the typical thing that women do”. What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama? “I’m in chemotherapy. You’re a-holes”, she said of the paparazzi and gossip magazines.
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“Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them”. “What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind”. She called me “rude” and “a troublemaker”, said “Do not speak to me like I’m stupid or beneath you in any way” and, at last, declared, “I don’t care to speak to you anymore”.
