Nicki Minaj? Did you mean: my actual queen?
Nicki Minaj’s beef began with Miley Cyrus back in August when Cyrus weighed in on the miscommunication between the rapper and Taylor Swift. In an interview with The New York Times, Cyrus said she had not followed the social media feud because of Minaj’s “angry approach.” She said:
“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. And it’s not anger like, ‘Guys, I’m frustrated about some things that are a bigger issue.’ You made it about you. Not to sound like a b*tch, but that’s like, ‘Eh, I didn’t get my VMA.’ If you want to make it about race, there’s a way you could do that. But don’t make it just about yourself. … What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind.”
Miley, I’ve never rolled my eyes so hard in my life than after I read that statement that you likely thought was something profound. Take your head out of your sunshine and rainbows asshole, love everybody bull, and take a look at reality. Nicki Minaj is black and therefore has a right to talk about race in a public platform. She doesn’t need to package it prettily for your consumption – that’s not her job. You, on the other hand, have no place in appropriating black culture. Who are you to silence the voices that are trying to have a conversation about what black women specifically face?
When Nicki Minaj won the VMA for the Best Hip-Hop Video for “Anaconda” days later, she fired back with the infamous quote, “Back to this bitch who had a lot to say about me the other day in the press, Miley, what’s good?”
Two months later, Minaj still refuses to back down. In a cover story for The New York Times Magazine’s Culture Issue which is out on October 11, 2015, she said:
“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.”
Nicki, preach. Someone’s got to educate Miley and, quite frankly, I can’t think of a better person to do it than you.
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