What’s #NickiDay without a little drama? After the self-proclaimed Queen of Rap made her triumphant return on Thursday (April 12) with “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li,” social media went wild, especially when Minaj’s original “MotorSport” verse surfaced online.
In the song, Minaj raps, “If Cardi B the QB/ I’m Nick Lombardi,” which many perceived to be a diss aimed at the current rap princess.
Despite telling her side of “MotorSport” drama in her interview with Beats 1 Radio, Black Barbie hit Twitter to defend herself once again and blamed Atlantic Records — Cardi’s label — for making her change her verse.
“How can you say someone changed their verse & forget to say Quavo TOLD me to remove my singing part (which I loved) & Atlantic told me to remove your name from my verse per your request?” she wrote. “So how were those changes gonna happen if I didn’t ‘change’ my verse?”
Cardi addressed “MotorSport” in an interview with Capital XTRA last November, roughly one month after the track initially dropped.
“When I heard the track, her verse wasn’t finished,” she said. “It was not the verse it was right now. Quavo told me to get on the song. I felt like it was a perfect opportunity to be big like them.”
In the interview with Beats 1 Radio, Minaj admitted some of Cardi’s statements “really, really really hurt” her. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
(The original version of this story was published on April 12, 2018 at 12:14 p.m. PST and can be found below.)
Nicki Minaj stopped by Beats 1 Radio to sit down for an interview with Zane Lowe where she not only premiered her two new singles — “Barbie Tingz” and “Chun-Li” — but also opened up about a bevy of topics, including Cardi B.
Lowe alluded to a recently leaked song snippet that featured a lyric (“I never had to strip to get the pole position”) rumored to be aimed at Cardi B. Minaj quickly killed that notion.
“That’s a rumor?” Minaj asked. “I have no clue. I wrote that song in Paris about a year and a half ago. It was for a Drake record. That’s how long ago it was. Shout out to Cardi and all the female rappers doing their thing.”
But then things took a different direction. Minaj touched on the Migos track “MotorSport” featuring Cardi and herself, and how she felt about the first interview Cardi did after the song came out.
“With Cardi B, she’s done exactly what she should’ve done,” she said. “She’s just gone full steam ahead and congratulations to her. The only thing with Cardi that really, really, really hurt my feeling was the first interview she did after ‘MotorSport’ came out. I remember when I first came in the game, if a female of that stature had done a feature with me on it, I would only be singing their praises and saying thank you.
“The first interview she did after ‘Motorsport’ came out, it just really hurt me, cause she looked so aggravated and angry and the only thing that she kept saying was, ‘Oh I didn’t hear that, I didn’t hear that verse, she changed her verse.”
Minaj added she felt “ambushed” by Quavo. [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
“With ‘Motorsport’ I kind of felt ambushed,” she explained. “Quavo was my baby. I loved Quavo. At the time, I went on Twitter and I explained how ‘Motorsport’ came about and people were saying that I was lying. So I texted Quavo and I said, ‘Can you back me up on this? Cause I don’t want people to think I’m lying’ and he didn’t back me up. He texted me back like ‘I would go on Twitter and back you up if you were my girl lol’ and that hurt because I love him. And there are certain rappers that I call my baby — Quavo, Uzi, Swae Lee — and so Quavo told me ‘I’m not gonna go on Twitter and address that shit. If I do an interview then I’ll address it.’
“I was like ‘yikes’ because it hurt my feelings because I can be slaughtered and not one person will step in to say the truth. They will run with that lie because it’s entertaining. To make Nicki seem like a bad guy.”
As she continued, Black Barbie set the record straight on not only how the song came about but also that she gave her blessing for Cardi to be on the song.
“First of all, Quavo came to my studio and played ‘MotorSport,'” she said. “He was the only person on ‘MotorSport.’ I said that’s a hit … I wanna get on that one. He wanted me to get on a record called ‘She For Keeps.’ I said, ‘No please, please, please let’s do MotorSport.’ He came back after and said, ‘All the guys gonna be on MotorSport’ and I said, yeah, I figured that because I knew that they were working on their group album.
‘He texted me and said, ‘Is it ok to put Cardi on it.’ And I still have the text in my phone where I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ And that’s the only story I told. I said exactly how it came about and when it was time to clear the air about that, no one did that. All of them allowed me to look like I lied and even with the scheduling conflict — [Cardi] is using my hairdresser now, so even he [their hairdresser Tokyo Stylez] can attest to the fact Tokyo, he knows that there really was a scheduling conflict.
“It was because of him. He’s the one who couldn’t show up and I text him and said you know that if I don’t show up the day that she’s shooting they’re gonna act like it’s because I’m doing it to be mean with the current Nicki Hate Train. He wasn’t able to come, he had something to do and that’s fine. So I had to shoot on another day. They all knew that, especially if you’re using my hairdresser now … And you still did interviews and y’all all still jumped around that just to paint Nicki as the bad person so that you could play the victim. That really, really hurt me.”
Minaj blames what she calls the “Nicki Hate Parade” for allowing Cardi to speak about her the way she did.
“I really fully supported her and up until this recent interview she did, I had never seen her show me genuine love in an interview and I could just imagine how many girls wish they could’ve been on a song with Nicki Minaj. I’m not saying it in a cocky way, but like … [sniffles] … yikes. I’m not saying it in a cocky way, but the first thing out of your mouth when someone asks you about a Nicki Minaj feature is [loudly imitating Cardi], ‘She changed her verse’ … Excuse me?
“It’s because of the Nicki Hate Parade that she felt the comfortability to address me in that manner.”
Later in the interview, Lil Wayne and Birdman called in separately who both praised Minaj for her impact on the culture.[apple_news_ad type=”any”]
She went to a high school for acting and it shows….
This is gossip. He said she said. Not Hiphop. Not news.
Stfu! Your 15 min are up plastic barbie. You were overrated when ya came out. Only reason you made it is you got butt implants. #facts
Why does he have to make it
10 years sure ain’t no 15 minutes bruh….
It is when you’re the only one!
She wasn’t the only one. Whenever she was nominated for an award tgere were other females in the categories. Dej Loaf was out, Missy Elliot was making music and some other female artist that wasn’t well known. Don’t hate on Nicki cause the others wasn’t making an impact in the industry.
She wasn’t the only one. Whenever she was nominated for an award there were other females in the categories. Dej Loaf was out, Missy Elliot was making music and some other female artist that wasn’t well known. Don’t hate on Nicki cause the others wasn’t making an impact in the industry.
Nobody hatin on her the bish can’t rap! She let her body speak over her pen!
I know. I hate 99% of female rappers including Minaj, but trying to call her some flash in the pan is comical. Her career has been longer than some dudes who people consider legends in this shit, and Cardi B is certainly no threat to that. If anything, she took Iggy’s spot who we have not heard from since 2 summers ago.
“HipHop”DX you should put sponsered content on all of your commercials (articles).
she shook cause Cardi has the limelight now. when people r on top they don’t think the limelight can disappear just as fast. be HUMBLE
Ummm no.
No quote from Cardio SO CALLED dissing her in an interview. She just can’t handle another plastic black woman getting the limelight. Damn.
The world’s so lost right now,Nicki talked CRAZY her whole career about female MCs but somehow this is Quavo’s fault?? Nicki Minaj is dissing America’s (current)favorite ratchet but blaming men for putting women against one another?? Just remember Remy Ma ShEther’d Nicki Minaj,Weezy/Nas/Safaree can’t pen her outta that 1
Where was this energy at when Remy came at her head……fuck outta here
Remy spoke to much truth. And Remy as an MC is a bazillion times more talented than that retarded stripper. Easier opponent.
Remys diss track was ass dude. It wasn’t creative at all, and she barely rhymed. And the rhymes weren’t clever at all.
Fucking females arguing and bickering like immature broke bitches on the street. He said, she said. Who in the fuck cares?
Kinda like 50, Game, Diddy, Ross, Fab, Flex, and the majority of the new cats…. What’s ya point?
Nah Quavo is a manipulator. Migos knee what they were doing. In fact they played this situation no different from how a record label would have done.
Nicki is right and Cardi is right too. I don’t the manipulation of the situation was needed for both to reach where they needed to go. Plus there is room for both. Cardi is a nicki clone though. It’s like how everyone was trying to create a new Mayweather to beat Mayweather. They trying to create new Nickis. Nicky should take as a compliment. She is definitely miles better lyrically than her competition. Look at No Frauds, Monster and Motorsportas examples
There both made up nothing is original about rather of them they entertaining the hell out of me….. Lol
*Either* my bad rookie at this
Lightskin pettiness is real among the girls too.
HONESTLY THIS ALL SOUNDS LIKE POOR COMMUNICATION. PEOPLE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS AND IT COULD’VE BEEN RESOLVED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME AMONGST EVEN THE BEST OF FRIENDS. JUST STFU, TALK IT OUT OVER SOME DRINKS.
I mean Quavo shouldve backed her up. This wouldve never happened.
Hold up… is Nicki team Android?
Her emojis ugly
Cardi is not a Nikki clout Nicki ain’t nobody like remyma, like Kim, Trina, queen latifah, mc lyte, yo yo, all these females gave cardi her props and she paid hummage to them Nikki is narcissistic and only wants all the attention, why is she just saying something about this because her album about to drop and she want people to look down on cardi so her shut can sale well ?Nikki like lil Kim said her personality and attitude fucked up that is why rhihanna don’t like her
If you go look cardi has never said anything bad about Nikki this is all Nikki doing this, she has already thanked her and gave her props damn what next you want her to lick ya pussy now fuck that.
Bitch is feenin for attention … Get to the back of the line and let other female rappers eat 2 … U had ur run
Yup
i mean at least Cardi knows her spot. She said it a few days ago, she’s not trying to be a hip hop icon. She’s a culture vulture invented by these labels doing the minstrel show part of hip hop like all of the other gimmicks in rap with one hit wonders or some shit. She saw it was a way to come up because she used to strip to that music. Nicki Minaj is annoying as a rapper like 99% of most females rapping just because it’s like watching a woman smoke weed or some shit, that shit is not attractive, but you can’t deny she came up immersed in the game trying to rap like dudes and shit she grew up with, coming up with Gucci, getting on with Lil Wayne, etc. etc. This is what Iggy didn’t get and why she got exed out and why Cardi is now in that place. Cardi understands very well how she was invented by the industry and ratchet hoes who need a role model, which is why she’s not turning down any checks before the red carpet ride ends even while she’s pregnant. Two years from now when it’s over, she can see how much show money she’s made and can look back on the experiences because I promise you the Grammies and shit won’t be calling in 2020.
Sounds like she’s getting a dose of her own medicine. She spent all those years sniping other femcees.
I saw the interview as her just stating what she feels happened, not necessarily blaming, but the bottom line is Black people need to stick together so media outlets won’t steer us against one another. (Yes Cardi is black because one of her parents is Trinidadian)
They are both repulsive as fuck. Nicki has a few bars but devotes most of her songs to talking about dudes licking her b-hole instead. Good luck with the subsequent hiv you get lady.
you’re an idiot