Cardi B Praises Nicki Minaj For Still Dominating Rap

Cardi B Gives Nicki Minaj Her Props For Dominating Rap In A Long Time

Cardi B has finally proven that ‘two legends can actually co_exist’ as she’s now given her arch rival Nicki Minaj, her props after years of feuding. A video of the two getting into a brawl at New York Fashion Week in 2018 went viral and they’ve not been cool ever since.

The two rappers have seemingly being avoiding each other since the altercation. But they have finally decided to bury the hatchet with Cardi showing love to Nicki.

During a new Apple Music interview, the Bronx rapper spoke with Nadeska Alexis who also co-hosts Complex’s Everyday Struggle about her new single with Megan Thee Stallion, “Wap,” as well as the legacy of women rappers. Cardi said that when she was younger, there were considerably more popular women rappers, which prompted her to suggest one particular woman is “still dominating” the industry.

“When I was six, seven, eight, there was a lot different female rappers,” she said. “And then there was a time that there was no female rappers at all. I have to keep replaying songs from the early 2000s.”

Cardi continued, “I have to keep replaying it, replaying it, replaying it because for a while there wasn’t no female rapper. And then there was one female rapper that dominated for a very long time. You know what I’m saying? And she did pretty good. She’s been still dominating.”

During her chat on Apple Music, Cardi spoke about the false narrative that women in music aren’t allowed to support each other, which is often credited as one of the reasons for her almost-feud with Nicki.

“I feel like people be wanting to put female artists against each other,” Cardi said. “Every single time I feel like there’s a female artist that’s coming up, coming up, coming up and it’s getting they mainstream moment, I always see like little slick comments like, ‘Oh, they taking over your spot. They taking over this. They taking over that.’ And it just makes me feel like, damn, why it had to be like that? Because I actually like shorty music a lot. Why does it even have to be like that?”