The clash began in July when Minaj appeared to believe SZA had subtweeted her over a post referencing the singer\u2019s former manager Terrence \u201cPunch\u201d Henderson.<\/p>\n
Minaj responded by posting several critical tweets directed at SZA, writing the Saturn singer \u201clook[ed] and sound[ed] like she got stung by a f***ing bee\u201d.<\/p>\n
SZA told GQ: \u201cThat\u2019s not even my place to correct a narrative that I don\u2019t got s*** to do with. It was a little strange. It was very like, \u2018Why?\u2019 But also, you know \u2018I guess\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the exchange, SZA appeared to step away from the argument, posting on X: \u201cI don\u2019t give a f*** bout none of that weird s*** you popping\u2026 Lmao lemme go back to being calm shy and meek.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minaj later escalated the feud by criticising SZA\u2019s decision to re-release her 2022 album SOS as the deluxe version Lana.<\/p>\n
She wrote: \u201cB**** put out a whole new album as a deluxe to an already existing album that was out for like a year or 2 so the original album could break records.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike what in the insecure lack of morals and integrity you doing? I thought she was like a real artist? Girl bye.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Super Bass rapper went on to claim that if \u201cevery song [SZA had] ever done vanished right now the music business wouldn\u2019t even miss [her]… I\u2019ve been to countries that never heard of [SZA]\u201d.<\/p>\n
SZA responded by sharing a screenshot of a text exchange from 2020, showing Minaj had previously contacted her about a potential collaboration on a song called Don\u2019t Do.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cNicki. You absolutely know my music and what I contribute cause you\u2019ve asked for features twice to no response. In addition to rapping my lyrics on Feeling Myself \u2018cooking up the bass looking like a kilo\u2019? Lol ur having a moment .. im not sure why but be blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minaj\u2019s 2014 track Feeling Myself, featuring Beyonc\u00e9, was co-written by SZA.<\/p>\n
After the dispute, Minaj also reposted old tweets from SZA that appeared to criticise Beyonc\u00e9 and Rihanna.<\/p>\n
In October, Cardi B, who has her own long-running feud with Minaj, weighed in on the situation, writing on X: \u201cGirl STFUUU done beefed with every black woman in the industry like girl who tf beef with SZA??\u201d<\/p>\n
SZA and Minaj have each scored three No 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n
SZA released her Lana deluxe album in December 2024, while Minaj\u2019s most recent record, Pink Friday 2, was released in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The clash began in July when Minaj appeared to believe SZA had subtweeted her over a post referencing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,23539,86385,156,10113,1888,2082,86384,111,139,86383,7805,69,1642,7241,312,54894,25269,4504,2044,102],"class_list":["post-123672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-addresses","tag-backstory","tag-entertainment","tag-feud","tag-first","tag-for","tag-minaj","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nicki","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-publicly","tag-says","tag-spoken","tag-sza","tag-theres","tag-time","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}