Nicki Minaj and Cardi B: What Really Happened Between Them?

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Nicki Minaj and Cardi B has once again becomes the internet spotlight after their recent feud.

The long-simmering tensions heat up again on social media, particularly on X, on Monday night, September 29, 2025.

The heated exchange was sparked by the release of Cardi B's new album, "Am I the Drama?", which subsequently became the target of Nicki Minaj's harsh criticism.

Minaj openly mocked the album's sales figures, accused Cardi B of data manipulation, and asserted that she would never be beaten in terms of album sales.

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The feud began when Nicki Minaj launched a series of tweets on platform X that explicitly targeted Cardi B.

Minaj mocked the sales of Cardi B's latest album, "Am I the Drama?", accusing her of inflating sales figures.

She even took issue with the album's promotional price of just $4.99 on iTunes, implying that sales were not genuine.

Furthermore, Minaj also used the nicknames "Barney B" and "Barney Dangerous" for Cardi B, claiming that Cardi B "fell off the charts with a big belly."

These tweets, some of which were later deleted, also included lyrics from Cardi B's songs that were turned into personal insults.

One example is the change of the lyrics to "Magnet" to "Abcdefgeeeeeeee / SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY" and "Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy / RUNNING TRAINS.Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee."

Cardi B responded with comments of her own on X, saying: "Nothing more annoying than a bored (expletive)" and "You must've missed me, huh crazy?? Now kiss my feet."

In more X posts, Cardi B wondered why Minaj keeps "bringing up my album," adding that it's "not the gag that you think it is."

"You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time," Cardi B wrote on X in a separate Sept. 29 post, referring to Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Drake.

She claimed she was "roasting ribs and baking brownies" when Minaj began attacking her on social media, implying that she was unfazed and moving on with her life.

The feud between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B is nothing new; This rivalry has been going on for years.

In 2018, their fight reportedly began at New York Fashion Week, when someone saw Cardi B try to attack Minaj at a party before security intervened, according to an Associated Press report.

Although tensions subsided after the incident, the awkward atmosphere and rivalry persist whenever the two are at the same event, such as the 2025 Met Gala.

In fact, many have suggested that this online exchange may be a strategy by Nicki Minaj to draw attention to her upcoming album release on March 27, 2026.