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Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian−born rapper, singer-songwriter, television personality, and actress. Dubbed as the "Queen of Rap" by several media outlets, Minaj is one of the most influential and best selling female rap artists of all time, with 137 million records sold worldwide. She has garnered praise for her animated rapping and her songwriting which utilizes metaphors, double entendres, and wordplay.
Megan has cited Nicki as one of her influences and has well-admitted to being a friend of Nicki. The two were spotted on Instagram live together on July 27, 2019 and discussed doing a collab, which eventually turned out to be "Hot Girl Summer". They were also spotted then again on live together on August 10, 2019 shooting a video for the song.
Megan and Nicki's relationship had fallen apart after Megan had collaborated with fellow rapper Cardi B on her 2020 hit single, "WAP". Cardi is widely known for her and Nicki's feud and rival.
Controversy and feud
Although having collaborated together on the 2019 single "Hot Girl Summer", Minaj's relationship with fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion grew cold after Megan collaborated with Cardi B on their 2020 single "WAP". In response, Minaj threw subliminal shots at Megan in her 2023 singles "Red Ruby da Sleeze" and "FTCU", both of which make references to the 2020 shooting of Megan by Tory Lanez according to critics and fans. In 2024, Megan Thee Stallion released the song "Hiss", in which she raps the line that people "don't be mad at Megan", but that they're "mad at Megan's Law", naming the law regarding sex offenders. Believing it to be directed at her and her husband, registered sex offender Kenneth Petty, Minaj took to Instagram Live to preview her own song, a diss track against Megan called "Big Foot", alluding to the shooting of Megan's foot. For the next several days, Minaj continued to attack Megan on social media, calling the rapper a "pathological and manipulative liar", accusing her of winning "fraudulent awards", and describing her as a "flop" compared to her own success. She addressed Megan on Instagram Live by saying, "You bringing up 30-year-old tea from when this man was a 15-year-old child. You bringing up 30-year-old tea cause no man will ever fucking love you, and lying on your dead mother", referencing Megan's mother, who died of brain cancer in March 2019. On the radio app Stationhead, Minaj continued to discuss Megan's mother, as well as Tory Lanez and former collaborator DaBaby: "You let everyone be thrown under the bus. You let DaBaby be thrown under the bus, Tory, your best friend, your mom... You better go conjure up your mother and apologize. That’s disgusting." Megan posted an Instagram story where she was doubled over with her left hand on her mouth, seemingly laughing at Minaj's response. Two days after the release of "Hiss", Minaj released the song "Big Foot", a diss track against Megan Thee Stallion. A few hours prior to the release of "Big Foot", Minaj disclosed that her team was waiting for producer Lil Juju to clear the beat "that she had for 6 years" and suggested that Megan tried to prevent the diss track from coming out. In the song, Minaj taunts Megan over her dead mother, her appearance, and her ex-boyfriend Pardison Fontaine; various publications reported that the song was poorly received by critics and fans, who criticized the production, the rap flow, and the shots at Megan for being lacking in quality. On the fifth day of Minaj's continued "intense fixation" with Megan following "Hiss", as Rolling Stone labeled it, she speculated on Twitter's Spaces that Megan’s management company, Roc Nation, had launched a smear campaign against her and accused Megan of seeking sympathy as a victim of violence to further her career, saying "She wanted a Rihanna moment so bad", an allusion to Chris Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna.
Collaborations
- "Hot Girl Summer" (feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign) (2019)