What do Steve Madden, controversial maker of your favorite clubbing heels, and Cardi B, outspoken rapper and delightful social media personality, have in common? Answer: They’ve both got beef with Nicki Minaj.
Chances are you’ve heard about the feud between Minaj and Cardi, which all began with a fateful hurl of a shoe (though, not a Steve Madden one) during a New York Fashion Week party last September. According to reports, Cardi lobbed the stiletto at Minaj after she questioned Cardi’s mothering skills.
Here, a breakdown of how Steve Madden entered the line of fire between the feuding rappers.
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Start from the beginning.
It all comes back to the Cardi and Nicki beef, which has been raging for two months. Yesterday, Cardi said that she turned down a Diesel deal, which eventually went to Nicki — basically insinuating that Minaj got her sloppy seconds. “That Diesel deal that you got?” Cardi B asked in an Instagram story. “Yeah, that came to me first. And I had to decline it because I’m already working with fashion brands.” Cardi currently has a deal with beloved millennial label Fashion Nova.
What did Nicki say?
The “Chun-Li” rapper turned around to say she turned down a Steve Madden deal in 2017 that eventually went to Cardi.
So, this is basically a battle of egos?
Yes.
What did Steve Madden say?
Following the back-and-forth, the brand took to Twitter to call out Minaj for “lying” about being offered a contract. “You can’t turn down an offer that was never made,” the shoe company tweeted. PUNCHES. THROWN.
How did people react?
Basically like this:
Nicki’s response?
On Tuesday evening, Minaj retweeted reporter Adelle Platon, who interviewed Steve Madden in 2015 for Vibe. According to Platon’s interview, Madden had initially approached Minaj about a collaboration, but the two “got into a fight the first minute we met.” Madden eventually reached out to another female rapper, Iggy Azalea, for a collaboration, but told Platon that he wished it had been Nicki instead.
“It was a mistake,” he said of his deal. “I wish I could go back in time and work with Nicki instead of Iggy.” Minaj, of course, added her own two cents to the tweet:
What’s the deal with Nicki and Cardi?
As of Monday night, the two rap queens called a truce. But that was before Steve Madden weighed in.
Is this all a publicity stunt?
Is it a coincidence that Nicki — who has previously strategically feuded with Travis Scott, Kylie Jenner, and the couple’s 8-month-old baby, Stormi — decided to escalate the drama on the same day she dropped her new music video? Who can say!?!
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