Sorry to Ask, But Why Are Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Feuding Again?
Oh, brother. Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are feuding again, and it’s gotten really ugly. Since Monday, the two women have been going back and forth on X, hurling insults and dragging each other’s children into their beef. It’s really spiraled out of control, even for these two, and if you’ve only seen a few stray tweets pop up on your timeline you might be confused about what is happening at all. Well, I bravely dove into all of this and I think I’ve figured it out.
Haven’t Nicki and Cardi beefed before?
Yes, these two have disliked each other for years and years. The specific incident you might be thinking of is when their feud reportedly turned physical in September 2018, at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party during New York Fashion Week. After months of arguing about Minaj’s verse on the Migos track “MotorSport,” things exploded at this party, with Cardi allegedly throwing her shoe at Minaj, according to Variety. You probably remember the image of Cardi leaving the party with her head held high and a giant knot bulging out of her forehead. Suffice it to say, these two have not been on good terms since.
So what resuscitated this feud?
From what I can tell, the mere fact of Cardi releasing her new album, Am I the Drama? is what set this whole thing off. Minaj has deleted a lot of her tweets, but she reportedly kicked things off by tweeting “$4.99,” the promotional price of Am I the Drama? Minaj then tweaked the lyrics to Cardi’s song “Magnet,” and turned them into a diss. “Abcdefgeeeeeeee,” Minaj wrote, “SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY.”
“Abcdefgeeeeeeee / Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy,” she continued, an apparent reference to Cardi’s pregnancy. “RUNNING TRAINS / Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. Meeeeee.”
Cardi then hopped online, complaining that there’s “nothing more annoying than a bored btch” and tweeting “Cocaine Barbie,” presumably a knock at Minaj. She then shared her own updated version of “Magnet” lyrics that included a reference to Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, who’s currently in prison after being found guilty of raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter.
Nicki Minaj and Cardi B in new tweets: pic.twitter.com/RDdLRbHGdd
— Pop Base (@PopBase) September 30, 2025
Minaj continued her offensive, repeatedly calling Cardi “Barney” and sharing AI images of Cardi as the purple dinosaur. Eventually, Cardi told Nicki to act her age. “Why you keep bringing up my album?? It’s not the gag that you think it is,” Cardi wrote. “You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time.”
Why you keep bringing up my album?? It’s not the gag that you think it is..You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time. Rihanna, Taylor swift, Drake…those are the numbers you need to be competing wit and you can’t…
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 30, 2025
What did they say about each other’s kids?
This is where things get really upsetting. On Monday, Minaj tweeted, “Raw doggin pregnant wit da 4th babeeee Barney B. BV. HPVeeeeee Allegedlyyyyyyyyyyyy.” This was the final straw for Cardi, who is currently pregnant with her fourth child, her first with Stefon Diggs. She claimed that Minaj had to go to fertility doctors because she “couldn’t reproduce from all them percs scrambling your eggs.”
Alright now this the third tweet talkin about my pregnancy… like you wasn’t going to different fertility doctors cuz you couldn’t reproduce from all them percs scrambling your eggs. NOT ALLEGEDLY…Lord protect my babies
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) September 30, 2025
Minaj then wrote a lengthy post denying that she had fertility issues and shaming Cardi for her pregnancies in language that I honestly cannot bring myself to type here. She then took a serious tack, admonishing Cardi for using infertility as a jab, before pivoting to juvenile insults and calling Cardi’s 7-year-old daughter, Kulture, ugly. They continued to trade truly awful insults about each other’s children until Wednesday afternoon, when things appear to have briefly died down.
Also let me say this, tho I have never had fertility issues, it’s not something to be used as a drag. Until you know the women who are actually living that pain, blaming themselves—we could only imagine & pray for them, love them, uplift them. Not use these women as a punch line
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) October 1, 2025
Are Latto and JT involved in this?
I can see how your timeline may have made it seem like it, but actually no. In the middle of her tweets about Minaj, Cardi was also dealing with the fallout of a leaked phone call she allegedly had with Ice Spice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr. That’s why there are a bunch of tweets where Cardi is talking about a guy named James. “Why you want to act dumb,” Cardi says in the alleged phone call. “You don’t know?! I’ma show y’all! I’m not Latto! I’ma beat her the fuck up! I’ma knock her the fuck out!” Cardi later felt bad for bringing Latto into things and posted an apology on Tuesday, adding that she would “privately buy her a bag.”
As for JT, the City Girls rapper was actually going at it with Cardi’s sister Hennessy. JT had been insulting Cardi, prompting Hennessy to call her a “gremlin looking bitch dying for attention.” If we go any deeper into this we’ll be here all day, but all you need to know is that it doesn’t really have anything to do with Cardi and Minaj.
What about Jay-Z?
He’s also catching strays. Jay-Z has been the target of Minaj’s ire for several months now, and it seems like she was just in the mood to get him in the mix. In the middle of her back-and-forth with Cardi, Minaj accused Jay of wearing a wig. If we’re being honest, this is kind of the only silver lining of this beef, only because the image of Jay in the wig did make me laugh. Sorry!
Jay z take off that fucking LACE FRONT
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) October 1, 2025
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) October 1, 2025
Where do things stand now?
After a short break, the women picked things right back up on Wednesday afternoon. Minaj directed a post directly to Kulture, who, it bears repeating, is 7 years old. (Minaj is 42.) Cardi then called Minaj a “sick pathetic loser ass demonic insane bitch” and accused her of being jealous of her children.
Here you go starting again nice and early you sick pathetic loser ass demonic insane bitch.. I said it back in 2018 and nobody believed me that you been talkin about my child since I was pregnant.. you BEEN jealous of my child.. I had never mentioned or talked about your fuckin…
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) October 1, 2025
You said you gonna kick my child gums back??? Didn’t you say you was in NY??? This past words now.. WHERE TF YOU AT??? Cuz today gonna be the day I go to jail
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) October 1, 2025
Cardi wrapped things up by breaking out Minaj’s government name and telling her plainly that she “needs to get help” to “heal that trauma.”
Are you exhausted? I know I am, and I can’t imagine that either woman feels amazing right now. They’ve both been dragged as rappers and mothers, and their children became the focal point of a truly ugly fight. Everyone involved here should probably hand their phone over to an assistant for 24 hours and do some deep breathing. Maybe a journal would be a worthwhile investment? A group chat full of friends that will blindly hate your enemies? There are a lot of other ways to go about this that aren’t in front of millions of people online.
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