Steve Madden has been called out for telling a prodigious fib on Nicki Minaj.
After Nicki stated she had repeatedly turned down offers from Steve Madden in response to Cardi B bragging about her Curated by Cardi Collection with the brand, Madden took to Twitter to deny a deal was ever offered.
“@NICKIMINAJ you can’t turn down an offer that was never made. #StopLying,” he tweeted.
It didn’t take long for Nicki to jog Madden’s memory and for 50 Cent and Iggy Azalea, who had a bad experience working with Madden herself, to see something wrong with this picture. Immediately the shoemaker was called out by them for lying. An interview with VIBE further confirms that a Steve Madden offer was indeed presented to Nicki.
“I guess he forgot he spoke on this already. smh liar,” Fifty wrote in an Instagram post.
“This hoe ass nigga came to my house in Malibu with Irv Gotti begging me to do the deal! My manager Gee Roberson was there. Can’t believe grown ass men getting on the internet lying like hoes,” Nick captioned under 50’s post.
Then, Iggy Azalea chimed in and called Madden a “fuck boy.”
“Steve is a fuck boy,” Azalea wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “He did some sidebar shit when my deal said I had full creative control, couldn’t handle being called out on it and then tried to publicly backtrack. Boy bye.”
After the Barbz and the rest of social media began to clown, Steve took back his claim and changed his tune.
“@NICKIMINAJ is an incredibly talented artist but we couldn’t work together cuz the timing wasn’t right,” he tweeted. “@iamcardib came on the scene and I had a fantastic collaboration with her, and she is also an amazing talent. I love both @NICKIMINAJ and @iamcardib music. I hope they can reach some peace — together they could probably take over the world. There is a lot of negativity out there right now, and I shouldn’t have contributed to that.”
Nicki doesn’t care too much for his apology though and dares him to respond to 50 Cent.
“Eat a dick nigga. You lied on me cuz it was the trendy thing 2do! Ain’t nobody buyin that clown shit. We couldn’t work together cuz I said the shoes were ugly. You see how when you do clownery it comes back to bite? WE NOT BUYING IT!!!!!! Respond to 50 instead of picking on women,” Nicki said in response to Steve’s apology.
[This post has been updated. The following was originally published on October 30, 2018.]
Steve Madden came for Nicki Minaj after she claimed to turn down a deal from them several times.
In the midst of the Queens native and Cardi B‘s war of words on Monday (October 29), Nicki criticized the Bronx-bred “Money” rapper for claiming she only got her Diesel deal because she was already booked with Fashion Nova and working with Steve Madden.
Nicki then one-upped her claims by naming Steve Madden as a company who passed on years ago.
“Irv Gotti asked me to do that deal several times. I passed,” Nick tweeted.
In 2017, Steve Madden employed a business relationship with Cardi B for her Curated by Cardi Collection so the shoe brand quickly came to her defense.
“…you can’t turn down an offer that was never made,” the Steve Madden brand account retorted at the “Chun-Li” artist in a Tweet.
Nicki may be wrong about being offered an official deal by the shoemaker, but at some point, the brand did want to work with her and chose to work with Iggy Azalea instead. Steve Madden himself admitted to regretting his decision in an interview with VIBE Magazine from 2015.
“I was gonna do a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and we got into a fight the first minute we met,” Steve Madden told VIBE. “And then we patched it up. We were cool. We text each other, we became sort of buddies. We were thinking of doing something, and I would’ve, but I was with Iggy and I thought, ‘Coke and Pepsi.’ It was a mistake. I made a mistake and I wish that I could go back in time and work with Nicki instead of Iggy.”
Nicki Minaj and Cardi B may have announced an executive decision to leave things on a positive note, but with brands getting involved there’s no telling how long the peace between these two will last.
Blabla no one cares about this guy and this wasn’t even worthy of news…. next!!
Why is this news?
So this dumb fucks own past interview contradicts what he’s saying now, lol. This WEE shit that all of these corporations have brought to the game is why it’s so wack. Definition of that ghetofabulous goal they had for the game back in the day. Mission accomplished.
Big shock, Nicki is lying again. We all clowned meek, but we don’t actually know what’s underneath all the plastic surgery and PR propaganda.
Da Fuck nicki. Why you put yourself in a position where people talk trash bout you. Tot you were over this?
Funny how all these corporate fat cats appear now to throw gasoline into the fire just as Nicki and Cardi stated they were done beefin. Surely just a “coincidence”, i mean “who” would ever want to pit people against each other like this? “Who” exactly is it that divides people while pretending to be white?
Listen!! This is living Hip Hop History with Nicki Minaj& Cardi B this is the first Female Hip Hop beef to play out in worldwide media fans are in invested into it like 2 PAC & Biggie beef now I’m ready for Nicki & Cardi to bring in their own click of artists under them like a Outlaws & Junior Mafia right now Queens & Bronx new artists are waiting that never been done by a female artist I hope it stays on wax it could get real like Foxy Brown & Lil Kim will . I’m I the only one waiting for Erykah Badu to do a straight hip hop or maybe start a female Wu Tang group with this year’s BET Hip Hop Awards female Cypher all the artists were fire . Will Nicki Minaj & Cardi B go the CBS show The Talk to do a interview with Eve ? Throwback Song of the Day Fat Joe & Remy Ma ( Lean Back )
Yeah you likely the only one who wants to see a poontang clan
lol Steve Madden got shit on.
This is the new rap. This is the new equivalent to album sales. Rock & Roll dead, hip hop dead, what next?
I just want to say that I feel like Nicki and 50 are fucking up their whole legacies with all this pettiness. It’s really irritating.
maori being cannibals with fucking new Yorkers. I get it, I get it totally.
Wow, a slew of grown ups swearing like 12 year olds. Al over a super boring shoe company. Snooze.
What kind of self respecting adult female that claims to be a role model for women tells a man in the most public of all forums (nowadays sadly) to eat a d1ck n1gg4? For real? You are ghetto trash Nicki. You always will be. Don’t be mad another ghetto hooker is taking your spot. And she has more class than you do despite coming from nothing Nicki! And I don’t even mean this as a racial thing as they both are different races, ghetto is ghetto. There’s good ghetto and bad ghetto. This chick is straight up trash.
Nikki’s album already ate a Dick….her words… but she needs to stick to blownin Dicks.
Everyone here acting like they wouldn’t be mad that high profile people are lying about them to their millions of followers are dumb as fuck. You can dislike Nicki, but in this case she did nothing wrong. She called out a liar because fans don’t actually do research, they regurgitate the lies that benefit the people they like. So if she didn’t call it out, you’d have millions of people saying she trash and just salty because she didn’t get to work with Madden. So to call of those hating because the facts do not support the people they like in this story… eat a dick.
This is a prime example of why designers shouldn’t and try not to ever work with rappers. Look at this shit show. So fucking GHETTO!!!! Do you ever see this type of shit with any other models, artists, etc. in ANY other genre or industry? NEVER. Only with the hip hop trash bags that don’t have the class, education, or business experience to know how to act when doing business. Now go blame the white man again.
Rappers speak up for themselves and call out the bullshit, you know, HipHop shit, other geners are just cogs in the machine, GTFOH
Bruh who even gives af about Steve Madden and who tf is buying his shit anyway. He bites off of other brands and makes shitty sneakers. The only people corny enough to want a deal with his lame ass are pop singers, and ratchet ass hoes like Cardi B. Please just sit tf down because you obviously don’t know enough about hip-hop culture to be talking shit about it.
Nicki is kinda disgusting, imagine if you had a 5 year old who said dad I wanna be like Nicki Minaj. Her brothers a pedo too the whole fam ain’t right.
She is…..totally such an ugly person.
Let alone ugly woman
Both of you sound like a 50 year old jealous widow
Steve Madden is a lying ass hoe. He was wrong and Nicki defended herself.
Tranny Minaj has a dick and real mental issues.