Every week it seems like a new rap beef is being aired out on Twitter. This time, it’s Nicki Minaj and Latto.
Thursday, it was reported that Nicki Minaj’s hit single “Super Freaky Girl” would not be considered for any of the hip-hop categories at next year’s Grammys and, instead, it would compete for Best Pop Solo Performance. Following the news, Nicki dragged Latto into the mix, resulting in a very personal back-and-forth on Twitter.
“Now, let’s say that ‘Super Freaky Girl’ is a pop song. Let’s just say that. What is ‘Big Energy’? … If you move ‘Super Freaky Girl’ out of rap and put it in pop, do the same thing for ‘Big Energy,’” Nicki said on Instagram Live.
A fan then took to Twitter to point out that Latto even labeled “Big Energy” pop, which Nicki retweeted with the response, “Yikes.”
Yikes https://t.co/dmITRweweT
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) October 13, 2022
Latto caught wind of Nicki’s comments wondering why she was dragged into the conversation, tweeting, “Damn I can’t win for losing…all these awards/noms I can’t even celebrate.”
Damn I can’t win for losing… all these awards/noms I can’t even celebrate
— BIG LATTO (@Latto) October 14, 2022
Hours later, the “Bussin” rapper shared screenshots of a text message from the “It’s Givin” rapper told Nicki she agreed with her but “because of where we left off ion think u need to bring my name/song up.” From there, Nicki began calling Latto “Stratch Off” and a “Karen” for not speaking up on her behalf.
“This Karen has probably mentioned my name in over 100 interviews. Says she waited in line for Pink Friday w|her Barbie chain on, bangs, pink hair…but today, scratch off decides to be silent; rather than speak up for the black woman she called her biggest inspiration,” Nicki tweeted.
Latto responded, “Just like the 1st time I DMed u asking about ur ongoing subtweets. I wanted to speak up cuz like I said I do agree but the way u going about it seems malicious,” she added. “I’ve ignored countless subtweets since March and instead addressed u in the dm. … Ur literally older than my mom tryna be a bully @NICKIMINAJ.”
“I’ve ignored countless subtweets since March and instead addressed u in the dm. You’re asking why I didn’t speak up in ur defense… it’s the same answer I gave u when u asked why I didn’t congratulate you. Ur literally older than my mom tryna be a bully .”
Nicki responded by saying she thought Latto “was at least 35.” Latto then clapped back with a screenshot of what she said was Nicki’s latest “subtweet” towards her alongside the hashtag #40yroldbully, which quickly trended on Twitter.
Nicki insisted Latto was just making things “up in her head” because she declined to do two features.
Nicki also responded to Latto “age shaming her,” saying, “Age shaming when you look like YOU the one pushing 40. … Oh so you in your 20’s. Oh ok then. At least it match your album sales. You sold 20K right?” Minaj tweeted. She continued, saying she’d expose reference tracks with Latto’s ghostwriters and called her Blackness into question. “She used me & the Barbz in every interview until that album sold double wood. now she wiping that spray tan off & being a Karen. They black when it’s beneficial chi.”
The two continued their back-and-forth, with Nicki calling Latto a “Karen” and throwing shots at her album sales. She even insinuated that Latto was just made that she passed on her features request.
“U only get called old when you pass on their features 😩 i ain’t never diss my idols for not giving me a feature,” the Queen spitter wound up tweeting. “I bowed to lauryn hill feet when I met her. Feature or no feature. Should I call her old now? She a grandmother & still out rapping you.”
That is when Latto fired back, claiming Nicki is “literally fishing for a reason to backup being a bully” and is “so meticulous w her shade so she can twist it later and act like it wasn’t about you.”
“I literally named u as my dream collab multiple times in multiple interviews…like I told u otp I looked up to u…u still never answered my question about where the random shade started coming from,” she wrote. “With all this being said this wasn’t JUST about a Grammy category. U being funny bringing me up to defend ur case knowing our last convo didn’t end on good terms. U literally told me I’m not ‘flourishing’ and no one cares about my ‘little song.’”
BEEN subbing… super freaky grandma is married AND related to fucking rapists. You ain’t gone bully me BITCH! My idol turned rival now u hating! https://t.co/SGc78CZqDc pic.twitter.com/WOIxu4bu1n
— BIG LATTO (@Latto) October 14, 2022
