Nicki Minaj and maybe fiancé (but probably not) Meek Mill spent the weekend engaged in a Twitter battle with rapper Joe Budden. Nicki is no stranger to feuds, and this time, Nicki took it personally when someone shaded her man.
The entire back-and-forth of the situation is both complicated and dumb. Budden airs a weekly podcast, during which he dissed Nicki and Meek’s coupley photos: “Meek’s music is too hard for me to look at him with this f***ing sappy f*** sh*t. It’s nasty. I hate everything about it.” This remark prompted a full-on tirade from both Nicki and Meek. You can read the whole fight here. What’s funny is how Nicki may have made herself late for the Wireless Festival in London because of this squabble. Her official excuse was traffic delays, but she was over two hours late.
The real drama started when people called out Nicki after she mistakenly favorited a disrespectful tweet about Joe Biden’s son. Beau Biden died on May 30 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Nicki saw a tweet about Beau’s death, assumed they were talking about Joe Budden’s son (Trey, who is alive), and she duly favorited. People noticed, and she unfaved.
@93kilamniaz pic.twitter.com/vbdQ7Xc6Ml
— cynthia|BIO REFOLLOW (@GRANDEKlNK) July 4, 2015
@93kilamniaz and this too pic.twitter.com/ao977B4vSh
— cynthia|BIO REFOLLOW (@GRANDEKlNK) July 4, 2015
Nicki never really cares who she offends, so I’m not surprised she favorited a tweet about someone’s death. She tried to cover her tracks by unfavoriting the tweet, but the internet never forgets. She also can’t excuse her actions by claiming mistaken identity. It’s equally awful for her to be disrespectful about anyone’s family tragedy, whether we’re talking about Joe Biden or (as Nicki thought) Joe Budden. I also think it’s pretty sad for her to be so riled up in her current feud that she’s favoriting tweets about anyone’s misfortune. So rude.
Photos courtesy of Nicki Minaj on Instgram & WENN
Pathetic, ridiculous and annoying … just like her.
@ Snazzy: I ❤ u!!
Wow, that’s disgusting
She’s so clever and classy, no one said ever.
Yep.
AS you said, even if the tweet was about Budden, why would you like something like that?? No excuses.
+1,000
Seriously she faved a tweet saying someone’s son died because he wasn’t strong enough to battle cancer. That is plain revolting to say about ANYONE. Dying from Cancer is about the disease, not whether or not you can “fight it”. That statement goes beyond her Hip Hop petty feuds. Cancer affects everyone including her super fans and their families who have made her wealthy. She better apologize ASAP.
Seriously. No matter how angry you are with someone, why would you favorite a tweet about someone’s son not being strong enough to battle cancer?
For crying out loud, it’s just an online feud. Some people sicken me with their lack of empathy! DISGUSTING.
How can anybody favorite somebody’s death? That’s creepy and disgusting.
+1
This is what comes of never being told that other people’s feelings matter. Seriously, it’s a bullying issue and the roots must be long. This girl is beautiful and popular and mean as hell. Somebody forgot to raise her to be a human being to other people.
You would think she knows better since she herself claimed that as a youngster she was bullied and teased by other girls.
She sounds like a real asshat.
Her parents must be so proud.
Ugh. So over this asshole. When will she go away?
So, it seems I’ve always had good reason to find this bint disgusting, even though it was hard to put my finger on why. She’s so repulsive, and I’m relieved the reason was finally revealed. Why do these undeserving, despicable people have such long careers, massive popularity and unbridled wealth?
“Why do these undeserving, despicable people have such long careers, massive popularity and unbridled wealth?”
Exactly!!!
This.
It is truly disgusting. The world is turning into a sordid, tacky, graceless pit of filth. The ruder, meaner and more disgusting you are the better your chances of being famous. Imagine favoring the death of someone’s child. She ought to lose every fan she has, but she won’t, because there are too many people just like her. It makes me sick.
GNAT – This. I am SO with you on that lawn.
“The world is turning into a sordid, tacky, graceless pit of filth.”
Sigh. On bad days, it certainly seems so.
One of my favorite jokes from author Pat Conroy (paraphrased)
Southern character to non-Southern character: “Well, y’all don’t have a word for ‘tacky’ – but Lord knows you need one.”
Belle de jour that made me laugh out of my bad mood! And Mia girl, I’m glad to have you.
And she appears to have good health. No excuse for participating in making fun of illness and/or death.
Because the world is full of despicable people. I was reading the new Rihanna’s video’s comments, and most of her fans were like “she makes more money than you, so stfu”. That’s what really matters for them. By Minaj’s whole message in her videos and lyrics, I’m not surprised.
Long while since I heard the word ” bint” teaandsympathy, it’s a good one. She’s an over-exposed-in more ways than one- classless cow.
Ha! I love that word, Anne. My darling friend from Leicester years ago called one of our horrible colleagues a “mardy bint”. She said I could use it…
@ TeaAndSympathy: ‘A Mardy Bint’ is the title of a book I would read.
NO EXCUSES. Colossal ignorance, terrible values, and thinks the world is all about her.
Kids in this country are not getting even a basic education any more. Forget things like grammar or spelling – no one cares. But the sloppy thinking combined with ignorance and pettiness is bringing us down, down, down to where all that matters is what Kim is wearing and what a nasty girl thinks was aimed at her on Twitter. It would be funny if if weren’t so horrifying.
Did anyone see the video of the guy asking random people what the 4th of July was actually about? The women all giggled and said “I have no idea” like this was cute. The men didn’t want to look stupid so they walked off. The ONLY PERSON who answered correctly was an Italian tourist.
Get off my lawn.
Get off mine, too. People are dumber now than they were during the dark ages. On one side, you have these goody goodies who don’t believe in evolution, and on the other, these sleaze bags who don’t know who’s Vice President. Good Lord.
Not knowing who the VP is. That is the REAL story here. From the screenshot, a good 33 people were proudly ignorant on top of being just plain mean. Amazing.
Right? And these same are allowed to drive and vote and carry weapons. Scary.
what you said about grammar/spelling…
“lil baby actin like he sleep”
that made me cringe. why is it “cool” to deliberately use poor grammar? sorry but she is pretty trashy…no makeover from Super Mario/Rainbow Brite character to whatever she is now can fix that.
It’s called Ebonics/AAVE and it’s actually seen as a valid language partner by linguists and language institutions. Many African languages (including the ones my parents speak) follow that sentence structure so it makes sense for members of the African diaspora to have similar language patterns.
Also, it’s not uncommon for people of my generation to have less then stellar grammar online and follow all the rules when it actually matters.
*edit: wrong reply
@Lynnie
Let’s go easy on the Black and African language generalization. I’m Black, from 2 Black parents and a big family. None of us use Ebonics on or off line. We do use abbreviations. Also none of our African family friends speak dialects derived from Ebonics and although their English is spoke with accents, it’s proper English without slang. I did meet a girl from West Africa who spoke that way but she said it’s considered broken English that freed slaves from America returned with that became a dialect. But the Continent of Africa is ernomous with up to 50 different dialects in one country so I think that dialect is spoken by like 0.9999% of Africans.
Yes I do agree that some academics do see it as a legitimate language but a school district in California tried to get Ebonics passed as an official language in the school for teachers to get through to the kids in poorly performing schools and it was shot down. I have seen Nicki do interviews with no Ebonics to White media. I have no problems with her speaking slang and Ebonics in social media to her fans or in her beefs. It’s in keeping up with the Hip Hop world where Ebonics does really make good rhymes.
It’s not poor grammar, just a different dialect. Dialects are languages with their own vocabulary and grammar. They are quite consistent and can actually have more complex grammars than the “academic” dialect taught in schools. Languages tend to simplify when they are spoken by many different groups rather than a smaller group. But all languages change over time to adapt to new things and changing preferences, so the academic grammar books are typically out of date in at least some aspects. Users define the language, and grammarians should be considered as only observers.
Humans are natural language inventors. It’s part of what we are. Most people are bilingual, able to at least understand and often able to speak the mainstream academic dialect but also fluent in their own community’s dialect. The main dialect is very useful for wider communication and generally will include the largest vocabulary (for subjects taught in schools), but that doesn’t mean the others are inferior as languages. Many schoolteachers do not realize this (not understanding the essence of language very well) and that attitude causes considerable harm. They would do better teaching the main dialect as an essential second language while respecting the community dialect.
@Original T. C I don’t think I said all Black/African Americans have to use/do use Ebonics, but if I didn’t make that clear I apologize.
“Also none of our African family friends speak dialects derived from Ebonics”
Same here, but up in my earlier post I said that Ebonics is influenced by African languages lingual patterns. So in other words a language like Igbo (which has double negatives and out of order subjects)—-> mixing of various African languages with slaveowners native tongue—> Ebonics. (Although that west African girl’s comment about the returned slaves is interesting, I’ll have to ask my parents about that.)
I agree I probably should’ve clarified a bit more in regard to Africa’s size and I heard about the Californian proposal. My understanding about the situation though was that the people who lived there voted against it for the same harmful reasons jwoolman listed above.
Hi LYNNIE,
Thanks for the clarification 🙂
More background info for your parents: the girl was from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Named by the freed former slaves. Very interesting history I must say and pretty disappointed it was never taught in World History class as it does relate to US history.
The neighboring country Liberia had the largest percentage of former slaves, they spread out to all parts of the country and so the U.S. government as had a closer relationship with that country viewing them as expatriots of sort. However this girl thought that closer relationship causes too much US handprints on influencing local politics and regime change that has caused a lot of problems. for example the political unrest From spilled over to her country ending up in a brutal civil war with child soldiers created and innocent people killed or with limbs cut off. Very tragic stuff.
Good grief. I’m going back to bed.
I’m with you Crumpet. If anything validates curling up in the fetal position with some chocolate (or a few muscle relaxers for that matter..), this would be it.
This dude is so geeked to dating Nicki its embarrassing to watch.
That’s all Joe budden was saying. These pictures are very cringy. I dont like his music but looking at his pictures he looks like a sap.
I’m laughing because I can’t, for the life of me, figure out where or what the tweet about Joe Biden’s son says. All I see is a pic of a chicken and then all sort of nonsensical hashtags. I guess I’m too old for this? Possibly it’s too early in the morning? What does the Beau Biden tweet say?
I thought I was the only one. I have no idea what it says either.
I know I am too old for this.
Yeah me too. I’ve never used Twitter and this reminded me why.
She is a nasty piece of work though, this one.
It says:
“OMFGGGGGGGGGGGG. LOGGING OUT FOR LIFE.
Didn’t Joe Biden son just pass away last week? Why is he online battling Nicki and Meek when his son couldn’t battle cancer?”
I thought that was someone else’s tweet? Ugh. I hate Twitter.
His son passed away May 30th not last week.
Kitten, it was, but it showed up in her feed because she favorited it.
yeah, I thought that was someone else’s tweet too, not to mention, I don’t see how that is bad? I don’t understand how twitter has stayed a thing for so long. It’s basically instagram without pics, and pics are so much more fun
The “OMFGGGGGGGGGGGG. LOGGING OUT FOR LIFE.” part is the “YONNAS” user’s response. It’s called a manual retweet – it’s basically when a user provides a “screenshot” of the original tweet (the comment about Joe Biden’s son passing away) with their response/comment on top, so that the comment itself doesn’t appear out of context; it’s a way of responding to something and giving anyone who sees the comment a reference point of what exactly they’re reacting to. Someone wrote the Biden tweet, YONNAS manually retweeted it and put his comment on top. The final image is of the original tweet about Biden’s son (where you can see that it’s been favorited 15 times, and to the right is what you’d see if you clicked on the 15 – a list of all the users who favorited it; at the bottom is Nicki’s name).
Yeah, it is a bit of a puzzle. Every now and then I get sucked into trying to find something on Twitter, and end up enraged by it’s nonsensical layout. I last about 10 minutes tops.
I am equally confused. I don’t get half the internet speak these days and the excessive use of hashtags, bad grammar and atrocious spelling just make me tired. Imma need all these people to get off my lawn.
Well that is the definition of trash. She needs to go away and seriously did her parents not raise her well enough to know sometimes it’s better to just shake your head and walk away. You don’t always engage but no matter how you feel you never cheer someone’s death.
Good lord. This whole thing is an event horizon for stupidity and ignorance.
Beyond being tacky, disrespectful and gross, I’m rather stunned that these people don’t even know who the Vice President of the United States is. Wow.
So tacky and disrespectful,i saw everything has it was going down in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Meek Mill is trash,too. She better pray they don’t break up,because he’s going to embarrass her. She was also cheating on her ex,with this guy. Smh!
I like how they’re positioning themselves to be the new jay and bey power couple
Nicki favorited an insensitive tweet. That sounds about right.
As a side note, when people I know post some awful news about themselves or their family on Facebook, other people hit the Like button. I don’t want to hit Like when you post a picture of the old dog you had to put to sleep or the kid with the broken arm.
Nicki needs a quick reminder of what real problems look like and we need a new button on FB.
😪 ugh Nicki don’t do this to me. I will say this though, dating Meek was such a downgrade.
What a moron.
Just tells you everything you need to know about her, if she’s willing to do that.
Such a loser. Sadly, many people probably think otherwise. Am worriwd about humanity.
So basically, she can’t read.
I thought it was common knowledge she could not?
What a temper she has! The tweet she favorited asks why he’s feuding on twitter with them when his son just died, so I didn’t see the tweet or her favoriting it as saying “We’re GLAD his son died”, I saw it as saying “Instead of messing with us, he should be more worried about THAT.” But even that context while it’s not as bad as the first is still very rude, cold, and uncalled for. That’s a lot of anger over an insult. She should have moved on by that point.
Yes, that’s how I interpreted it. Still rude and insensitive, but hardly cheering someone’s death.
Thanks for breaking it down. And yeah, she still needs to have a seat.
What? So she doesn’t know who the vice president is? That’s all I got from this.
Joe Budden has nothing to do with Joe Biden except for the fact that their names sound like. So she’s a moron, apparently.
Yeah that’s what I thought too. Insensitive and everything but saying she’s happy for someone’s death is a bit of a stretch.
This Twitter, Instagram or Facebook feud is downright non sense all together. These pop stars heads are so far up their a$&@*, they will never see the hurt they cause. This why I don’t like any of these scantily clad non talent artist, that they feel just because they have the world by the Palm fo their hands they can do crap like this. Nicki Minaj better apologise or else.
What an idiot.
She’s not informed or she would have known about Beau. She’s fighting with some dude over mushy pictures and she’s willing to support a tweet calling victims of fatal diseases weak. She couldn’t possibly be as embrassed as she should be. Open a f—in’ book you idiot!
Who really knows why she favorited it? She probably favorited it because the original poster was so stupid to confuse Budden and Biden and thought it was funny. You really believe she thinks the death of someone’s son is a joking matter, especially after losing family to gun violence?
Don’t buy her music, don’t listen to her music, don’t know why anyone even cares about her.
Is anyone else hoping against hope that Joe Biden nor anyone else from his family saw that tweet??? Or is that just wishful thinking… Ugh it’s soooo sad, he just died so recently!
human trash dump.