Cardi B and Nicki Minaj trade barbs on social media after Grammy winner scores second No. 1 album...

The rappers' feud reignited after Minaj accused Cardi B of inflating her first week album sales. Cardi B and Nicki Minaj trade barbs on social media after Gramm

The rappers' feud reignited after Minaj accused Cardi B of inflating her first week album sales.

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj trade barbs on social media after Grammy winner scores second No. 1 album: 'Compare yourself to your peers'

The rappers' feud reignited after Minaj accused Cardi B of inflating her first week album sales.

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The long-standing feud between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj was reignited Monday night as the rappers went head-to-head on social media.

The drama began when Minaj, 42, mocked Cardi's new album *Am I the Drama?* in a series of since-deleted tweets on X, and accused the 32-year-old of inflating sales of her latest project.

Nicki Minaj performs onstage during her Pink Friday 2 World Tour on Sept. 7, 2024.

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In screenshots of the deleted posts from Complex, the *Pink Friday *rapper flung insult after insult at Cardi, including a post that simply read, "$4.99," a jab at the promotional price of Cardi's album. She called the mother of four "Barney Dangerous" and flipped lyrics from the Bronx rapper's track "Magnet" into mocking rhymes.**

"Abcdefgeeeeeeee," Minaj 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."

Unsurprisingly, the posts caught Cardi's attention and the rapper, who has never been afraid to tussle online or in-person, began firing back.

As the "Truffle Butter" rapper took shots, the Grammy winner — who quipped at one point that Minaj had interrupted her while baking ribs and blondie brownies — wrote, "Nothing more annoying than a bored btch."

Cardi seemingly referenced how Minaj had been quiet until her second album dropped, writing in one post, "You must've missed me, huh crazy?? Now kiss my feet."

In another post, Cardi wrote, "The power I have.. make these btches come out of rehab everytime. Go to your f---ing room"

Cardi began going post-for-post with Minaj; when the latter posted an AI-generated image of Cardi dressed as Barney, accusing her of rapping like the purple dinosaur, Cardi posted the mugshot of Minaj's brother, Jelani Maraj, who is currently in jail for predatory assault against an 11-year-old girl, with a pink wig pasted on his head.

According to PEOPLE, Maraj, 46, was found guilty in 2017 and sentenced to 25 years to life in 2020.

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Cardi followed up with a jab against Minaj for her association with her brother and her husband, Kenneth "Zoo" Petty, who is a registered sex offender in the state of New York and served time in prison for manslaughter after being convicted in 2002.

"A B C D E F G / Yor man have to snatch P---Y / P---y taste like honey comb / Your bro be touching 12 year olds," Cardi's post read. "Damn she was streaming 'Magnet' hard as hell huh??" she said in another X post.**

Cardi shut down Minaj's attempts at trying to tear down her album's performance, which *Billboard *reported debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Oct. 4) with 200,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Sept. 25.

Cardi B performs during the 2025 Global Citizen Festival.

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"Why you keep bringing up my album?? 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," Cardi wrote.

She added, "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???"

Minaj generally stays low-key on most social media platforms but is notably more vocal on X, where she regularly shares posts from her fans hyping up her accomplishments and projects.

The mother-of-one began posting on Saturday for the first time in a month, plugging her upcoming album set to release on March 27, 2026. Some fans argued that the online spat was Minaj's way of garnering attention for her future release.

Although the rapper has deleted the tweets aimed at Cardi, she's kept up tweets from fans defending her, including a tweet claiming Minaj is "the ONLY female rapper to have an album cross 200k units first week this decade."

The animosity between Cardi and Minaj stretches back years, with its most infamous moment coming in 2018 when the rappers were involved in a physical altercation during Milan Fashion Week.**

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