The long-running rivalry between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj reignited this week after both artists came for each other on X.
The latest feud started after Nicki, 42, tweeted “Never provoke a writer while they’re [writing emoji],” on Monday night with a plug for her own album set to release on March 27, 2026. “Let the reindeer games begin.”
To every enabler:
Never provoke a writer while they’re ✍🏽
You joined the game as a willing participant.
Don’t try to back out now.
3.27.26#RocBottomNation #RocInflation #RicoNation you failed.
Let the reindeer games begin.
We #WinAgain
— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) September 30, 2025
In a series of since-deleted tweets, the Pink Friday rapper then unleashed a tirade at 32-year-old Cardi, including writing “$4.99” to reference the promotional price of Am I the Drama? on iTunes.
Nicki also called the pregnant Cardi “Barney Dangerous” and mocked her album sales, which landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum in the first week.
The lyricist wrote a series of tweets mocking Bardi’s track “Magnet” and the verse: “A-B-C-D-E-F-G / these bitches can’t fuck with me.”
“Abcdefgeeeeeeee,” Nicki wrote in one post. “SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY.”
“Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy / RUNNING TRAINS,” she wrote in another. “Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee.”
Shortly after, Cardi B responded by calling Nicki “Cocaine Barbie” and adding her own “Magnet” verses dissing Nicki.
A B C D E F G / Yor man have to snatch PUSSY / Pussy taste like honey comb / Your bro be touching 12 year olds,” Cardi wrote. “Damn she was streaming ‘Magnet’ hard as hell huh??” she added in another tweet.
About digs at her album sales, Cardi said, “It’s not the gag that you think it is.. You been in the game like 16 years.. You need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time.
“Rihanna, Taylor swift, Drake…those are the numbers you need to be competing wit and you can’t cuz you doing lower than all of them… I was in high school when you came out wtf is you comparing yourself to me for???”
She also came at the Harajuku Barbie for taking shots about the pregnancy of her fourth child and first baby with Stefon Diggs.
“Like you wasn’t going to different fertility doctors cuz you couldn’t reproduce from all them percs scrambling your eggs. NOT ALLEGEDLY …Lord protect my babies,” Cardi wrote.
The rappers’ fight devolved as they tweeted images ridiculing each other with memes of Barney and pink wigs.
