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On the fifth day of Nicki Minaj’s intense fixation with Megan Thee Stallion following a jab the “Savage” rapper likely took at Minaj in her latest song, Minaj called out Rihanna to claim that Megan tried to force sympathy on herself as a victim of violence. She also refuted that she encouraged fans of hers to approach or desecrate the grave of Megan’s late mother. The Texas cemetery where she is buried she has reportedly Security was beefed up and local police were informed of the risk he faced, as Nicki Minaj fans may have encouraged each other to disrespect her.
On January 31, Minaj joined podcast host Joe Budden on Spaces, the live audio branch of X, formerly known as Twitter. Budden, who has had a rap career and often criticizes hip-hop on his show, called himself an “objective Barb,” implying that he is a fan of Minaj and is somehow not biased as a music critic (a work that is inherently subjective). ). This meant it was a relatively safe space for Minaj to speak without opposition.
In a conversation that lasted at least 40 minutes, Minaj speculated that Megan’s management company, Roc Nation, launched a smear campaign against her, dissected the song that Megan’s ex, Pardison Fontaine, released in November and accused Megan of seeking sympathy and controversy to bolster his career.
“It’s so obvious,” Minaj said. “She wanted a Rihanna moment so badly.”
When another Space participant asked Minaj to specify which “Rihanna moment” and what she meant by it, she responded, “You’re going to Google it,” before continuing. The likely allusion the rapper could have been making is to Chris Brown’s attack on Rihanna in 2009, the beginning of more than a decade of accusations and reports of violence and harassment towards Brown.
Rihanna spoke about the assault and its consequences in an intense interview with ABC News months later. Somewhat similarly, in April 2022, Megan discussed the shooting of rapper Tory Lanez nearly two years earlier with Gayle King on CBS Morning. Lanez was convicted of first-degree assault with a firearm, discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, and having a firearm concealed in a vehicle and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence.
“Rihanna would never milk…” Minaj began in Space. “She You could tell she couldn’t wait to try to move on with her life. And then people even criticized her for not taking advantage of it.”
“Rihanna knows she was a superstar with or without controversy,” the rapper continued. “She is loved, with or without controversy, sympathy.”
Minaj also hinted that Megan Thee Stallion can’t be successful without provoking her, though a single bar on her new song “Hiss” appears to be the most direct Megan has engaged with Minaj since their “Hot Girl Summer” collaboration in 2019. On her latest album filled with bar-loads against countless anonymous haters, Megan raps, “These hoes ain’t mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law,” likely a reference to the status of Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty. as a convicted sex offender.
Since that song’s release on Jan. 26, Minaj has talked and posted incessantly about Megan or her surroundings, interacting with her frenzied fan base, and released her own review called “Big Foot,” focused entirely on Megan. “I understand it’s confusing and chaotic and they don’t understand my personality,” Minaj said on Space, as many have condemned the trailblazing rapper for tarnishing her own legacy. “When people see me tweeting, they think I’m tweeting like that,” she said before screeching wildly. “No, I’m actually rolling on the floor laughing most of the time.”
When another speaker, a colleague of Budden’s, asked Minaj to “make it clear to people” that she had not incited her fans to attack Megan’s mother’s grave, she immediately interrupted him to shut him up. “You just talked about a fake story,” Minaj insisted. “It’s a ploy! Lying on your dead mother to be number one! Minaj has long been obsessed with sales figures and has accused other rappers of gaming the system. “That is an excellent example of the constant lies that I have had to face as a human being, as an artist and as a wife. I just asked them to stop now that I’m a mother and they didn’t. And now people believe what you just said and it’s disgusting.”
He went on to claim that he has faced tribulations such as blows that he has neither sought nor gained sympathy nor “mourned” publicly.
“Black men have to wear a Katt dress,” he said, referencing the recent Katt Williams comedy. viral interview in which he suggested that Hollywood has tried to emasculate black male comedians. “Black women have to cry… You better not be a black woman and show resilience. And in that sense, get up on the right foot,” she said leaving Space with a reference to her song mocking the shooting Megan survived.