What's good? Not much, actually. Nicki Minaj has spoken out about THAT 2015 MTV Video Music Awards feud.
The Anaconda star broke her silence about Miley Cyrus during a new interview with the New York Times magazine for its Culture issue.
"The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls," Minaj, 32, told NYT mag of Miley Cyrus. "You're in videos with black men, and you're bringing out black women on your stages, but you don't want to know how black women feel about something that's so important?"
She continued: "Come on, you can't want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn't not want to know that."
We wonder if Miley responds...
Nicki Minaj may have made up with Taylor Swift, but she reignited her feud with Miley Cyrus and called out Miley on stage for all to see.
When Nicki Minaj accepted the Best Hip-Hop Video award for Anaconda, she wrapped up her speech by dissing VMAs host Miley Cyrus, saying, "Back to this bitch that had a lot of say about me the other day in the press. Miley Cyrus, what's good?"
Nicki Minaj was referring to a New York Times interview earlier in the week, when Cyrus criticised the way Minaj had addressed her issues with the VMAs, saying: "What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj, is not too kind." She went on to suggest that Minaj should have handled the situation differently.
According to reports, Miley Cyrus appeared defensive when Minaj called her out on stage, and replied: "We're all in this industry. We all do interviews. We all know how they manipulate shit, Nicki, congratulations."
Cue awkward silence and Minaj mouthed the word 'bitch' to Cyrus again.
Yikes.
The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards is happening this weekend, and Miley Cyrus has the tricky job of hosting the annual event. We hope things don't get too awkward when Nicki Minaj comes on stage to open the show, because Miley has called her out for being "not very polite".
Last month, Nicki Minaj complained on social media about the lack of a Video of the Year nomination for Anaconda, calling it another example of the media neglecting the contributions of black women artists. It started a debate online, especially when Taylor Swift interpreted Minaj's comments as a personal attack.
Swift later apologised to Minaj and admitted to being in the wrong, but Miley Cyrus doesn't see it that way. In a new interview with The New York Times, Miley Cyrus candidly says that she didn't familiarise herself too much with the whole debacle because Nicki's approach was one of "anger."
"I didn't follow it. You know what I always say? Not that this is jealousy, but jealousy does the opposite of what you want it to-that's a yoga mantra. People forget that the choices that they make and how they treat people in life affect you in a really big way. If you do things with an open heart and you come at things with love, you would be heard and I would respect your statement. But I don't respect your statement because of the anger that came with it," she says.
"And it's not anger like, 'Guys, I'm frustrated about some things that are a bigger issue.' You made it about you. Not to sound like a bitch, but that's like, 'Eh, I didn't get my VMA'...If you want to make it about race, there's a way you could do that. But don't make it just about yourself. Say: 'This is the reason why I think it's important to be nominated. There's girls everywhere with this body type.'"
Cyrus continued by adding, "What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind. It's not very polite," and ultimately concluded with the statement that she doesn't think MTV did it on purpose.
Complex, which published a piece explaining Minaj's point during the whole controversy, tweeted their previous story again with the text, "Nicki Minaj was right to call the #VMAs racist. Miley Cyrus may have missed the memo."
Nicki wrote back, "Complex, I always appreciate you. Thank you."
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES