Nicki Minaj has spoken out over several rumours of a feud with Cardi B before and after she dropped two new tracks: "Chun-Li" and "Barbie Tingz".
The US rapper denied feuding with Cardi B after the release of their Migos collaboration "MotorSport" but admitted she was "hurt" by the fallout, in an interview with Apple Music's Beats 1 Radio.
"When I first came in the game, if a female of [my] stature had done a feature with me on it, I would only be singing their praises and saying thank you," she said. "The first interview [Cardi] did after 'MotorSport' came out, it just really hurt me, because she looked so aggravated and angry, and the only thing she kept saying was 'I didn't hear that, she changed her verse'."
Minaj went on to explain that a scheduling conflict prevented her from shooting the video with Migos and Cardi B, which inflamed the rumours of a feud. She also suggested that the others failed to back her up with what actually happened, saying: "When it was time to clear the air about that, no one did that. All of them allowed me to look like I lied.
"Up until this recent interview that she did, I had never seen her show me genuine love. I could just imagine how many girls wish they could have been on a song with Nicki Minaj. I'm not saying it in a cocky way... It's because of the Nicki hate train that she felt like she could speak about me in that manner."
The independent