It's a miracle it has taken Nicki Minaj this long to comment on the now-iconic beef between her boyfriend Meek Mill and her good friend Drake, but she's finally opened up about her honest thoughts on the feud, and she did it in a way only Nicki Minaj could.
Long story short, back in July, Mill called Drake out, claiming he didn't write his own lyrics, and the two then became involved in a back-and-forth battle involving some legendary diss tracks, mostly from Drake. While Minaj became the topic in a few of Drake's lines in his track "Back to Back," she still remained silent on the issue. "Is that a world tour or your girls tour?" Drake says on the track, adding, "I don't wanna hear about this ever again/ Not even when she tell him that they better as friends."
Minaj decided to open up to The New York Times on several topics, including this particular beef, as well as her personal VMA beef with Miley Cyrus - but that's a whole other story. While her boyfriend and best friend battled it out, Minaj stayed out of it and wasn't effected whatsoever.
"They're men, grown-ass men. It's between them," she said when asked about Drake and Meek. The reporter than asked how it makes her feel, to which she replied, "I hate it. It doesn't make me feel good. You don't ever want to choose sides between people you love. It's ridiculous. I just want it to be over."
At this point, the interview started to get really interesting, and quite tense, as the reporter, Vanessa Grigoriadis, asked Minaj if she "thrives on drama." "As soon as I said the words, I wished I could dissolve them on my tongue," Grigoriadis wrote, describing how instantly quiet the room got.
"That's disrespectful," Minaj said. "Why would a grown-ass woman thrive off drama?" As someone who is notoriously known for speaking her mind and never holding anything back, things naturally only got worse from here, even as the reporter tried to apologize. "What do the four men you just named have to do with me thriving off drama?" Minaj continued to say. "Why would you even say that? That's so peculiar. Four grown-ass men are having issues between themselves and you're asking me do I thrive off drama? That's the typical thing that woman do. What did you putting me down right there do for you? Women blame women for things that have nothing to do with them. I really want to know why - as a matter of fact, I don't. Can we move on?"
Minaj continued to call the reporter "rude" and a "troublemaker." "To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they're children and I'm responsible, has nothing to do with you asking stupid questions, because you know that's not just a stupid question. That's a premeditated thing you just did," Minaj added. "Do not speak to me like I'm stupid or beneath you in any way...I don't care to speak to you anymore."
Grigoriadis wrote that Minaj had every right to call her out.
"Even though I had no intention of putting her down as a small-minded or silly woman, she was right to call me out. She had the mike and she used it to her advantage, hitting notes that we want stars like her to address right now," Grigoriadis wrote. "I didn't know how much of it Minaj really felt, and how much was a convenient way of maintaining control. I only knew that, in that moment, she was a boss bitch."
