SZA Responds to Nicki Minaj’s Latest Insults: ‘You’ve Asked for Features Twice’

SZA has responded to Nicki Minaj‘s latest flurry of posts insulting her, with the R&B hitmaker claiming that the Queen of Rap — who recently said that the “music business wouldn’t even miss” SZA if she “vanished” — has previously asked to collaborate with her.

About one day after Minaj first started taking shots at SZA via multiple messages on X, the latter chose one of the former’s most recent snipes — in which the New York native calls SZA a “fake girl’s girl” — and replied late Wednesday night (July 16): “Nicki … You absolutely know my music and what I contribute cause you’ve asked for features twice to no response.” 

“In addition to rapping my lyrics on feeling myself ‘Cooking up the bass looking like a kilo’?” SZA continued. “Lol ur having a moment ..im not sure why but be blessed.”

The singer also shared a screenshot of alleged texts between a member of her team and Minaj, who appears to say in the messages, “Is sza recording right now? Got this hook I think she would be dope on.”

Billboard has reached out to Minaj’s rep for comment.

SZA’s response follows a number of new disses from Minaj, who has been sounding off about the vocalist on X since Tuesday (July 15). After assuming that SZA had been subtweeting her with a post reading, “Mercury retrograde .. don’t take the bait lol silly goose,” the rapper wrote that her opponent was “ugly” and a “liar” who’s been “looking & sounding like she got stung by a f–king bee.”

Aside from her initial reply — “I don’t give a f–k bout none of that weird s–t you popping” — the alleged text screenshot SZA shared marks the first time she’s directly engaged with Minaj amid the debacle. Minaj, on the other hand, has continued her posting spree, at one point re-sharing a screenshot of SZA allegedly calling Minaj a “clown” in a years-old tweet.

“Calling someone a clown while drawing freckles on your face & telling the magazine they were real,” Minaj wrote Wednesday. “Pretending that was your hair … Was Frecklina not one of YOUR ALTER EGO’s SZA?!?!! Ain’t kung fu Kenny an after ego Sza????! Didn’t btchs take a knife to the face to get my NATURAL FACE MZA???? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO. FKNG CLOWN SHOW.”

“These be the fake girl’s girls who talk s–t but will run u down for a photo or do s–t like this on camera to pretend they’re not the hater they rlly are,” Minaj also griped in the post that SZA would later reply to with her screenshot, with the rapper sharing a video of the singer attempting to speak to Rihanna at the 2018 Met Gala. “I wonder what she was lying about to the interviewer. Man it’s so freeing to REALLY be yourself.”

Also on Wednesday, Minaj re-posted a video of fans allegedly leaving the Grand National Tour when SZA came out on stage, implying that they had only showed up for SZA’s tourmate, Kendrick Lamar. “is that this ho tour or her bro tour,” Minaj taunted.

Fans aren’t exactly sure why the two women are beefing, other than Minaj’s issues with Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence “Punch” Henderson, who managed SZA up until late last year. SZA shared her post about mercury being in retrograde shortly after the rapper posted about Punch, which is why Minaj likely believed it to be a subtweet aimed at her. 

Regardless of why they’re clashing, Minaj probably won’t be backing down any time soon. The rapper is notorious for feuding with other artists, from Megan Thee Stallion to Cardi B and Lil Kim.

In the meantime, SZA is gearing up for her next string of shows with Lamar after playing two nights in Paris July 15-16. Their next stop on the Grand National trek — which recently broke the record for highest grossing co-headline tour ever reported to Billboard Boxscore — will be July 19 in Wales.