Nicki Minaj calls out Grammys and Latto responds!
Despite spending its eighth week on top of Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart, Nicki Minaj’s “Super Freaky Girl” has been placed, by the Grammys, to compete in the pop category.
Nicki Minaj took to Instagram Live to share her frustration that her hit song was placed by the Grammys in the pop category.
“I only rapped on the song,” Minaj told fans. “[Drake’s] ‘Hotline Bling’ won Best Rap Song and Best Rap Sung [Performance].”
Minaj added: “Now, let’s say that ‘Super Freaky Girl’ is a pop song. Let’s just say that. What is [Latto’s] ‘Big Energy’? … If you move ‘Super Freaky Girl’ out of rap and put it in pop, do the same thing for ‘Big Energy.’ Same producers on both songs, by the way. So let’s keep shit fair. Even when I’m rapping on a pop track, I still out-rap.”
This seemed to have trigger rapper Latto as she responded on Twitter saying: “Damn I can’t win for losing… all these awards/noms I can’t even celebrate.”
The two reportedly attempted to resolve things privately, but the conversation boiled over into a public back-and-forth on Twitter. Minaj first posted a screenshot of an apparent message Latto had sent her, which Nicki captioned by calling Latto a "Karen" and "scratch off."
Latto followed that up by firing off a tweet, naming Nicki directly and calling her a bully: "I’ve ignored countless subtweets since March and instead addressed u in the dm. You’re asking why I didn’t speak up in ur defense… it’s the same answer I gave u when u asked why I didn’t congratulate you. Ur literally older than my mom tryna be a bully
Following multiple ageist comments and more back and forth, Latto continued to say Minaj was “related to rapists.” Minaj responded by saying that throwing the word rape was not a joke and that it should be taken seriously.
After the blow out, a Twitter user who has since made their profile private, posted screenshots alleging that Latto's mother was underage and her father was in his 30s when she was born adding more flame to the fire.
It is unclear how this issue will be resolved, if at all, by the two rappers. What is evident though is that it is quite sad that two female rapper are arguing this way publicly, and that, it seems like every time a female rapper wants to receive recognition, she has to start an argument with Nicki Minaj.
