Nicki Minaj Just Dropped 2 Fire New Tracks & Of Course Ppl Think She Shaded Cardi B

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Queen of rap Nicki Minaj just hit us with two new songs this morning and my god we have truly been blessed.

It’s been a while since we’ve been gifted a fresh Nicki track but ‘Barbie Tingz’ and ‘Chun-Li’ were well worth the wait. Of course, the songs have already been finely combed for any lyrics that could be interpreted as evidence of shade being thrown at fellow female rapper Cardi B, because people are absolutely desperate for this beef to be thing.

People are hung up on these lyrics from ‘Chun-Li’ which are being read as a potential swipe at Cardi. They read:

“How many a’ them coulda did it with finnesse?
Now everybody like, “She really is the best.”
You play checkers, couldn’t beat me playin’ chess
Now I’m about to turn around and beat my chest
Bitch, it’s King Kong”

Admittedly, the mention of ‘finesse’ definitely seems like it would be a huge coincidence if Nicki wasn’t referencing Cardi B’s feature on Bruno Mars’ track ‘Finesse’, even if she claimed in an interview that she wrote the lyrics before that song came out.

Alternatively, (imo) Nicki Minaj is just asserting her supremacy. Just because Nicki asserts that she’s the best in the game doesn’t mean she isn’t supportive of other artists. It also kinda seems like she might be playing into the beef on purpose since ‘Chun-Li’ is all about being made out to be “the bad guy”.

Let’s not forget that Nicki Minaj is fucking sharp and she gets it. She says:

“They need rappers like me. They NEED rappers like me. So they can get on their fucking keyboards and make me the bad guy.”

Nicki has been a trailblazing female artist dominating the rap industry for most of this decade. Tbh she’s earned her title as the best of the best, so a bit of sass about being the damn best isn’t so wild. It’s the kinda self-assured attitude male rappers have the luxury of repping without much flack.

But since people have a hard time accepting that there’s room for two female rappers at the top/in the industry at all, everyyyybodddyyy wants to believe there’s a hecca’s feud beween Nicki and Cardi. ‘Chun-Li’ comes off as one big eye roll about the whole situation and simultaneously BANGS as a track.

Meanwhile ‘Barbie Tingz’ is straight fire – especially at about 1 minute 23 seconds when she starts singing ’bout being a “baaaaaad bitch” and it’s so perfect YES NICKI.

Nicki 4eva