A history of Nicki Minaj’s rap beefs with other Black female artists

Rap beef is inevitable. The viciousness, the pettiness and the diss tracks are all a part of the brutal game.

We all know about the bitter rivalry between East Coast versus West Coast rap in the ’90s gangster rap led by Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Then there have been battles between Drake and Meek Mill or Jay-Z and Nas. But men aren’t always the ones involved in these feuds.

Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion’s long-simmering tension has the potential to cement itself among some of the most bitter battles between female rappers. The relationship between the once friends and collaborators has deteriorated beyond belief, transforming into a radioactive catastrophe that pulls others into its wake. While Megan publicly took the first shot with her venomous diss track “Hiss,” with a bar calling out Minaj’s marriage to a registered sex offender, the beef started way before the hit diss track gagged the rap world.