Nicki Minaj Clarifies Her VMA Beef With Miley, Totally Destroys Person Who Asked
Nicki Minaj is finally speaking up about the call-out heard round the world — her impromptu read of Miley Cyrus live on stage at this year's MTV Video Music Awards.
The world clutched its pearls that night when Minaj, after accepting an award for Best Hip-Hop Video, threw it back to Miley with a gentle namecheck: "And now... back to this bitch that had a lot to say about me in the press. Miley, what's good?"
Minaj, who alleged her "Anaconda" video didn't get the credit it deserved because the public at large favors white culture over black, was miffed by a comment Miley made to The New York Times regarding the allegation.
"If you do things with an open heart and you come at things with love, you would be heard and I would respect your statement. But I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it," Cyrus told the paper.
This week, Minaj clarified her still-ripe beef with Cyrus in the new issue of The New York Times Magazine, accusing her of appropriating black culture:
“The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that.”
After, the interviewer turned the topic toward rappers Drake and Meek Mill, who've also been feuding recently. Asked whether she "thrives on the drama," Minaj pointed her attention toward a different person — the interviewer.
"That’s disrespectful. Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama?" she asked. "That’s the typical thing that women do. What did you putting me down right there do for you?"
And this is how that interview ended (the interviewer writes):
"Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them. I really want to know why — as a matter of fact, I don’t. Can we move on, do you have anything else to ask?’’ she continued. ‘‘To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they’re children and I’m responsible, has nothing to do with you asking stupid questions, because you know that’s not just a stupid question. That’s a premeditated thing you just did.’’ She called me ‘‘rude’’ and ‘‘a troublemaker,’’ said ‘‘Do not speak to me like I’m stupid or beneath you in any way’’ and, at last, declared, ‘‘I don’t care to speak to you anymore."
Moral of this story: Do NOT mess with Nicki Minaj.
