The rivalry between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj has officially been pulled out of retirement. Nearly ten years after their first public blowup, the two rappers are trading shots again, this time over Cardi’s newly released album Am I the Drama?
The Spark That Lit It Up Again
The drama reignited after Nicki suggested Cardi’s sophomore album, which recently hit double platinum, may have inflated sales. Cardi wasted no time firing back on X (formerly Twitter).
“Why you keep bringing up my album??” she posted Sept. 29. “You been in the game 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time.”
Cardi pointed to Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Drake as the benchmarks Nicki should be worried about. “Those are the numbers you need to be competing wit,” she added. “I was in high school when you came out wtf is you comparing yourself to me for??”
Nicki Gets Personal
Nicki responded with a string of since-deleted posts, mocking Cardi’s song “Magnet” with her own parody lyrics and even shading the rapper’s pregnancy. She also accused Cardi of undergoing surgery to look like her.
At one point, Nicki wrote:
“Abcdefgeeeee / Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyy / RUNNING TRAINS / barefoot, still smellyyyy / Still. you. Could. Not. outsell. meeeee.”
Cardi Hits Below the Belt
Cardi didn’t hold back either. She accused Nicki of obsessively streaming “Magnet” and went further by referencing Nicki’s brother’s sexual assault conviction. “Your bro be touching 12 year olds,” she wrote, in one of her sharpest digs of the night.
The Bronx rapper also addressed Nicki’s pregnancy-related jabs: “Alright now this the third tweet talkin about my pregnancy. Lord protect my babies.”
“Nothing More Annoying Than a Bored B—h”
Cardi admitted the feud blindsided her mid–kitchen session. “Naaaa cuz I was really baking ribs and making blondie brownies and here come this b—h bothering me on a damn Monday,” she tweeted.
“You must’ve missed me, huh crazy?? Now kiss my feet.”
The Feud Escalates
By Oct. 1, things had spiraled further. Cardi called Nicki a “possessed drug addict” and told her to seek therapy. “You need to heal that trauma.. you always coming at people every time you see them happy,” she wrote.
Nicki, meanwhile, encouraged her fans to boycott companies tied to Cardi, claiming: “Every company that enabled her disgusting remarks about children & other marginalized groups FOR YEARS you have 3 days to cut ties.”
A Rap Rivalry With No End in Sight
This latest blowup adds another chapter to hip-hop’s messiest feud. The pair famously clashed at New York Fashion Week in 2018, and despite years of silence, their relationship hasn’t healed.
With both women continuing to dominate rap in different lanes, it seems one truth remains: when Cardi B and Nicki Minaj collide, the internet eats it up.
