{"id":173343,"date":"2025-07-16T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/16\/nicki-minaj-claims-shes-more-successful-than-sza-im-an-icon-youre-not\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:13:38","slug":"nicki-minaj-claims-shes-more-successful-than-sza-im-an-icon-youre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/16\/nicki-minaj-claims-shes-more-successful-than-sza-im-an-icon-youre-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Claims She\u2019s More Successful Than SZA: \u2018I\u2019m an Icon, You\u2019re\u00a0Not\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/nicki-minaj\/\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/sza\">SZA<\/a> continued their X feud on Tuesday evening (July 15) as the pair of music titans exchanged shots. What initially began as Minaj attacking Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence \u201cPunch\u201d Henderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nicki-minaj-sza-social-media-spat-1236022284\/\">became a Nicki-SZA spat. <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nicki-minaj-sza-social-media-spat-1236022284\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sza-nicki-minaj-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/sza-nicki-minaj-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"SZA and Nicki Minaj\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNicki Minaj Says SZA \u2018Sounding Like a Fkng Dead Dog\u2019 During Social Media\u00a0Spat\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t07\/15\/2025<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Queens, N.Y., hitmaker blasted SZA\u2019s ability as an artist and how \u201cthe music business wouldn\u2019t even miss\u201d her. Minaj went on to tout her accolades when compared to the success that the TDE singer has enjoyed in her career thus far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWait. Does Sza think she\u2019s more successful than me? Lol yall catch me up pls,\u201d Nicki began. \u201cSza if every song you\u2019ve ever done vanished right now the music business wouldn\u2019t even miss you. I\u2019ve been to countries that never heard of you. I know you\u2019re not THAT stupid are you? Stadiums? Did you look at the venues I played on my OWN headlined FESTIVAL tour out of the country last year? B\u2014h have you ever headlined to 80K ppl? Btch what have you ever done besides yodel with auto tune that needed retuning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMinaj continued, in part: \u201cBoo im an icon. You\u2019re not. The end. Pay that man for almost breaking his back. \u2026 You the type that would\u2019ve been quiet in school trying to fit in. You still have no clue who you are!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe rapper also went on to reference a series of resurfaced tweets that allegedly found SZA shading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/beyonce\">Beyonc\u00e9,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/ciara\">Ciara<\/a> in the early 2010s. \u201cBtch used to be on twitter dissing Rihanna, Ci, etc.\u201d she wrote. \u201cAllegedly. Like b\u2014h stop being jealous of women who you secretly would kill to be up their a\u2014 holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cSuper Bass\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1945281117977784754\">rapper added<\/a>: \u201cNow wanna act like you a mthfkn tarot card, b\u2014h quit. What an odd little weirdo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe ranting didn\u2019t stop there, as Minaj took the feud to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6pCnVILj-KE\">her Stationhead channel <\/a>where she insulted SZA, whom she nicknamed MZA, some more and claimed to not \u201cknow one of [her] motherf\u2014king songs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNot one. Listen, MZA,\u201d she said. \u201cI said find you some motherf\u2014king else body to play with, b\u2014h. You already played with your own, hoe, and we see how that went, b\u2014h.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>Billboard<\/em> has reached out to reps for SZA for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMinaj\u2019s rants against SZA appeared to come to a close late Tuesday; the latter is currently in the midst of the European leg of her co-headlining Grand National Tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kendrick-lamar\">Kendrick Lamar. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt\u2019s unclear what the root of the issue is between Minaj and SZA. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LorenLorosa\/status\/1945469522619642132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>The Breakfast Club<\/em>\u2018s Loren Lorosa <\/a>allegedly spoke to Punch, who relayed that Nicki attempted to get SZA on a song in 2020, but the opportunity fell through after the singer declined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRegardless, both Nicki and SZA have been widely successful in their respective careers. The singer\u2019s <em>SOS <\/em>album remains in the top five of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\"> Billboard 200 <\/a>years after its 2022 release and has spent 135 weeks on the chart. Minaj holds the record for the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\">Billboard 200<\/a> No. 1 albums by a female rapper and boasts 149 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> hits to her name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/nicki-minaj-more-successful-sza-feud-1236022661\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicki Minaj and SZA continued their X feud on Tuesday evening (July 15) as the pair of music titans exchanged shots. What initially began as Minaj attacking Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence \u201cPunch\u201d Henderson became a Nicki-SZA spat. Related Nicki Minaj Says SZA \u2018Sounding Like a Fkng Dead Dog\u2019 During Social Media\u00a0Spat 07\/15\/2025 The Queens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}