Remy Ma Vs Nicki Minaj Remy Ma Vs Nicki Minaj Beef

If keeping tabs on Remy Ma and Nicki Minaj dominated most of your weekend, you're not alone. In the wee hours of Saturday morn (February. 25), Remy dropped the rails "ShETHER," a nearly-seven minute obliteration aimed at Nicki Minaj. The song — taking both its championship and shell from Nas' 2001 Jay Z diss runway "Ether" — runs through a listing of claims against Nicki Minaj that extend from boardroom to bedchamber.

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From accusing her of having sexual practice with Lil Wayne, Drake, Trey Songz, Hot 97'due south Ebro Darden and Gucci Mane, to having butt implants that prevented her from having sexual activity with her ex Meek Factory for iii months, a lot was put on display. Furthermore, there were remarks on Nicki Minaj supporting her brother who was reportedly arrested for the declared sexual assail of a minor, along with suggesting Nicki's empire isn't as lucrative as information technology could exist since her money is filtered through multiple label entities (Young Money, Greenbacks Money, Republic Records) earlier reaching her hands.

There is even a shot that Nicki allegedly stole 1 of her most archetype lines "All these b-tches is my sons" from a 2009 tweet that Remy Ma said she posted while in prison. The song arrived less than 48 hours following Minaj's not-and then-subtle jab on her recent Gucci Mane collaboration "Make Love" that Remy Ma's comeback projection with Fat Joe,Plato o Plomo, was met with disappointing sales.

"ShETHER" sent the Net into a frenzy, notwithstanding the beef is far from new. Here is a war that is a decade deep, punctuated with minor incidents (a tweet here, a bar there) that have snowballed into this. For rap, this is one of the most significant beefs in hip-hop history.

To loosely quote Lauryn Hill, ii female MCs can't occupy the aforementioned infinite at the time. That's far from new news, which in and of itself reflects the graduated value of this war. Stand on any point on an American map, and the nigh prominent rapper in that region volition more than probable be A) a male person and B) crowned "king." When beef occurs, information technology's usually over turf wars. Cut to Jay Z and Nas fighting over the "King of New York" title. Or, perhaps, information technology's a novice attempting to swing overhead at a legend — Canibus and LL Cool J and Nelly and KRS One to name a few.

At this point, the Yard.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) label is a dubious one and for the nigh function, the competitors will simply bow their heads and still mumble "Biggie." For women, information technology'southward unlike. A beef usually means just one tin actually be in this moment. It's what bankrupt upwardly the Thelma and Louise narrative for Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown 20 years ago, and information technology still exists to this day. Now, nevertheless, the stakes are raised and hip-hop mainly has Nicki Minaj to thank for it.

Nicki Minaj was the first female rapper to penetrate the mainstream since Lauryn Colina, and she's arguably surpassed her. In half-dozen years, she's released iii solo albums, and is a multi-platinum recording creative person beyond the rap landscape. Nicki Minaj is a greater mainstream success than almost of her male rap contemporaries.

What Remy is arguing on "ShETHER," nevertheless, is that if she hadn't served a near-decade prison bid, she would be in Nicki Minaj'south place. That's up for debate, only her return — despite the lackluster sales of herPlata O Plomo — was still a warm welcome. Her collaboration with Fat Joe and French Montana "All The Way Up" hit No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 and that'southward nothing to scoff at when hip-hop'south attending span doesn't always allow an extended hiatus.

This beef is proof that hip-hop has grown. Remy Ma is no stranger to feuds, having had wars with Lady Luck and fifty-fifty Lil' Kim, only they were lyrically-driven and on a much smaller scale. When Nicki Minaj and Lil' Kim began their spat in 2009, it was unbalanced past the following year equally Nicki Minaj'southward celebrity skyrocketed. While Lil' Kim fired off shots on a project completely defended to dismantling Nicki titled Black Friday (a pun on Nicki'southward 2010 debut Pink Friday), Nicki simply fabricated Kim a retracted target on the song "Roman's Revenge." Since that point, she's distributed shards of crass across various songs (Kanye West's "Monster" being the nigh prominent) and that'due south been her K.O. with any competitor — Remy included.

As on Jay Z'due south Nas diss "Takeover," Hova always suggests he's too busy making coin and being successful to dedicate a vocal to anyone. For the most office, Nicki has washed the same. Her response to Remy thus far has included now-deleted screenshots of Plato o Plomo album sales and a voice notation posted on her Instagram where Beyoncé sings a cappella that Nicki is the "rap queen." In that location's talk of a diss rail-slash-video, which is still up in the air. Receipts are beingness presented in a rap feud where both female opponents are successful. Men are existence used as the disposable sleeping room bodies and ammo to insult the other. Hip-hop heads are waiting for more music and non for a mud-wrestling friction match like female rap feuds of decades past. This time, it'due south about lyricism and lucrativeness. What a fourth dimension.

This beef won't kill anyone's career. If annihilation, it will keep both going strongly. This is not a feud that should be deconstructed as girl-on-girl crime or dismissed past a claim that this battle is anti-feminist. To do so would reduce this war to gender, something women in rap have been fighting against since twenty-four hours one. This is hip-hop, and it's a sport — one where women had to look on the sidelines for far too long. Now, they're active players and everyone is tuned in — finally.

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