Nicki Minaj Claims She’s More Successful Than SZA: ‘I’m an Icon, You’re Not’

Nicki Minaj and SZA continued their X feud on Tuesday evening (July 15) as the pair of music titans exchanged shots. What initially began as Minaj attacking Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence “Punch” Henderson became a Nicki-SZA spat.

The Queens, N.Y., hitmaker blasted SZA’s ability as an artist and how “the music business wouldn’t even miss” her. Minaj went on to tout her accolades when compared to the success that the TDE singer has enjoyed in her career thus far.

“Wait. Does Sza think she’s more successful than me? Lol yall catch me up pls,” Nicki began. “Sza if every song you’ve ever done vanished right now the music business wouldn’t even miss you. I’ve been to countries that never heard of you. I know you’re not THAT stupid are you? Stadiums? Did you look at the venues I played on my OWN headlined FESTIVAL tour out of the country last year? B—h have you ever headlined to 80K ppl? Btch what have you ever done besides yodel with auto tune that needed retuning?”

Minaj continued, in part: “Boo im an icon. You’re not. The end. Pay that man for almost breaking his back. … You the type that would’ve been quiet in school trying to fit in. You still have no clue who you are!”

The rapper also went on to reference a series of resurfaced tweets that allegedly found SZA shading Beyoncé, Rihanna and Ciara in the early 2010s. “Btch used to be on twitter dissing Rihanna, Ci, etc.” she wrote. “Allegedly. Like b—h stop being jealous of women who you secretly would kill to be up their a— holes.”

The “Super Bass” rapper added: “Now wanna act like you a mthfkn tarot card, b—h quit. What an odd little weirdo.”

The ranting didn’t stop there, as Minaj took the feud to her Stationhead channel where she insulted SZA, whom she nicknamed MZA, some more and claimed to not “know one of [her] motherf—king songs.”

“Not one. Listen, MZA,” she said. “I said find you some motherf—king else body to play with, b—h. You already played with your own, hoe, and we see how that went, b—h.”

Billboard has reached out to reps for SZA for comment.

Minaj’s rants against SZA appeared to come to a close late Tuesday; the latter is currently in the midst of the European leg of her co-headlining Grand National Tour with Kendrick Lamar.

It’s unclear what the root of the issue is between Minaj and SZA. The Breakfast Club‘s Loren Lorosa allegedly spoke to Punch, who relayed that Nicki attempted to get SZA on a song in 2020, but the opportunity fell through after the singer declined.

Regardless, both Nicki and SZA have been widely successful in their respective careers. The singer’s SOS album remains in the top five of the Billboard 200 years after its 2022 release and has spent 135 weeks on the chart. Minaj holds the record for the most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums by a female rapper and boasts 149 Billboard Hot 100 hits to her name.