Cardi B's scathing 'cocaine Barbie' remark sparks new tension with Nicki Minaj

The two iconic rappers who refuse to share the throne and just co-exist are at it once again. These are grown women who are both mothers, yet here we are.

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj recently went head-to-head on  X on Monday, September 29, over Cardi B’s new album, “Am I the Drama?”

This all began when Cardi B publicly announced that her latest body of work went double platinum.

The album earned double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Monday, just 10 days after the album’s release. 

“Am I The Drama?” hit number 1 on Billboard 200 this week, shifting 200,000 units in its debut week with 146 million streams. 

Cardi B posted a series of scathing tweets after Minaj claimed that the sales of her album “AM I THE DRAMA” were inflated.

“Why you keep bringing up my album?? It’s not the gag that you think it is..You been in the game like 16 years.. you need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time. Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake…those are the numbers you need to be competing with and you can’t because you are doing lower than all of them,” she wrote.

In a now-deleted tweet, the rapper called the pregnant Cardi B “Barney Dangerous” and mocked her album sales. Minaj has since deleted her posts.

The “Nice Guy” hit maker responded to Minaj’s tweet about her pregnancy. 

“Like you weren’t going to different fertility doctors cuz you couldn’t reproduce from all them percs (Percocet drug), scrambling your eggs. NOT ALLEGEDLY …Lord protect my babies,” Cardi B said.

Minaj further wrote a series of tweets mocking Cardi B’s track “Magnet” and the verse: “A-B-C-D-E-F-G / these b****** can’t f*** with me.”

She posted another tweet on X: “Falling off the charts with a big bellyyyy / RUNNING TRAINS.”  “Barefoot, still smellyyyyy / Still. You. Could. Not. outsell. meeeeee," she wrote in another. 

Cardi B joined the argument by calling Minaj “Cocaine Barbie” and adding her own “Magnet” verses.

The two have had a longstanding beef since 2018, when they attended the Harper’s Bazaar Icons party during New York Fashion Week.

It all resulted in a physical altercation where Cardi B reportedly threw one of her shoes at Minaj. Cardi B was later seen with a lump on her forehead.

The mother of four indirectly claimed that Minaj talked about her daughter, Kulture, and her parenting skills. 

According to Cardi B, their fight began because Minaj liked then unliked a post that criticised Cardi B’s parenting skills; however, Minaj denied the claims. 

“I would never talk about anyone's child or parenting. I don’t care about anyone’s parenting,” Minaj said.