Nicki Minaj

Last month, in the heat of the Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion beef, TMZ reported that the cemetery where Megan’s mother Holly Thomas is buried had to bolster security after the location was doxxed on social media by one of Nicki’s fans, collectively known as “Barbz.” Nicki had nothing to do with the threat, but the brazenness was nonetheless regarded as a low point for stan culture and led many to ponder if that depth of celebrity stan-dom was a mental illness in itself.  Stan culture is a matter of obsessive…

On “Hiss,” Megan Thee Stallion made one thing clear: “I don’t give a fuck what y’all make trend. Bitch, I still win.” On Monday, she won. After nearly a week of Nicki Minaj corroding her legacy by attacking Megan over a seeming “Hiss” diss, the song hit No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100. To celebrate, Megan asked her Hotties to focus on positivity and vaguely alluded to some of Minaj’s disrespect. “Thank you thank you thank you! Thank you GOD, Thank you MAMA HOLLY,” she wrote, referring to her late mother Holly…

Fans of Universal Music Group’s artists, including Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and Olivia Rodrigo, are not pleased that the record label group has ceased to license its music to TikTok. The day after UMG threatened to stop licensing its music to the social media platform amid a breakdown in deal negotiations, songs from UMG‘s unparalleled stable of artists began vanishing from the social media platform. The removals started gradually late Wednesday evening as official versions of UMG-owned recordings, such as …

On the fifth day of Nicki Minaj’s intense fixation on Megan Thee Stallion following a jab the “Savage” rapper likely threw Minaj’s way on her latest track, Minaj invoked Rihanna to claim that Megan tried to force sympathy for herself as a victim of violence. She also refuted that she has encouraged her fans to approach or desecrate the gravesite of Megan’s late mother. The Texas cemetery where she’s buried has reportedly enhanced security and informed local police of the risk it faces as Nicki Minaj fans may have…

From the beginning of her career, Nicki Minaj has taken the moments as they’ve come. When her debut album Pink Friday arrived in 2010, she was navigating somewhat unpaved terrain. Breaking through the barriers of hip-hop’s boy’s club meant defending her craft to people who perceived her femininity as a limitation on her capability, while also proving that she wasn’t a carbon copy of the women who were her predecessors. “When you’re told something for a long time, even when it changes, your mind frame doesn’t change,”…

Nicki Minaj has dropped new song “Big Foot.” The diss track arrives following a dust-up between her and Megan Thee Stallion following the latter’s release of “Hiss” on Friday. On Minaj’s new track, she goes in for the kill, straight-up naming Megan in the first verse. “This little beggin’ whore talkin’ ’bout Megan’s law/For a free beat, you can hit Megan raw,” Minaj spits. “If you a ghost writer, Pardi in Megan jaw/Shots thrown but I still ain’t let Megan score.” The song culminates in a spoken word warning. “But…

Nicki Minaj has been spiraling ever since she listened to Megan Thee Stallion‘s new song “Hiss.” Megan released the track on Friday, and received an almost immediate reaction from Minaj, who seems to believe she (and her convicted sex offender husband) are being dissed in one particular lyric. In the hours since the drop, Minaj has tweeted several times about Megan, calling her a liar, a flop, all while claiming she doesn’t “condone ‘bullying.'” In a 3,100-character post on X Friday and an Instagram Live…

For Issa Rae, music has always been an extra cast member on the call sheet. The nine-time Emmy nominee has used music as a storytelling tool, extending the voices of her complex and comedic characters — from the groundbreaking series Insecure and to her current adventure Rap Sh!t to the web series that launched her career, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. “Music elevates the storytelling of everything. I write to music, you can have a scene that plays out great but music will add that…

Barbie leads the film nominations for the 2024 People’s Choice Awards. The Greta Gerwig-directed summer movie phenomenon is up for nine awards, followed in the film nominees by its “Barbenheimer” counterpart Oppenheimer, which scored six nods. Other top film nominees include The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. In the TV categories, Only Murders in the Building leads with seven nods, followed by Ted Lasso, The Morning Show and The Last…

Last month, Kanye West began teasing his upcoming album Vultures, the artist’s first release since a string of controversies in which the Grammy-winning musician aligned himself with far-right ideologues and was booted from Twitter (now called X) after declaring that he intended to go “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE.” Kanye spent much of 2023 out of the public eye, reportedly recording the album in various locations alongside collaborator Ty Dolla $ign. In addition to Ty, Vultures reportedly includes features from…