Nicki Minaj Can’t Get Enough of the Beef Between Lana Del Rey & Ethel Cain: ‘I Love This S–t’

Denizens of the internet were left scratching their heads when Lana Del Rey appeared to ignite a feud between herself and fellow alt-pop star Ethel Cain on Thursday (Aug. 14). But there’s at least one person who is thoroughly enjoying this latest beef — rap superstar Nicki Minaj.

In a series of posts to X on Friday (Aug. 15), Minaj shared that she cannot stop listening to the song snippet Del Rey shared to her Instagram, in which the Grammy-nominated singer took aim at Cain. “I’ve been singing ‘Ethel cain hated my instagram post’ all morning. Help!!!!!” the rapper wrote. “And something about the Waffle House & a picture w/some boy? But how can a melody & instruments & background vocals & the mixing be so good that I’m walking around all day talking about a person named Ethel who I do not know hating an instagram post I never even posted?”

In Del Rey’s song snippet, the singer appeared to take shots at Cain by using references to a pair of photos they both posted featuring Salem’s Jack Donaghue, as well as a New York Times headline referring to Cain as “the most famous girl at the Waffle House.” Cain responded to the post in an Instagram Story, in which she said that Del Rey had blocked her on the app.

Billboard has reached out to reps for both Del Rey and Cain for comment.

Minaj was clear about not taking sides in the developing feud, adding to her first post that she’s “sure Ethel is a nice person,” before she reminisced on Del Rey’s infamous, since-deleted “question for the culture” 2020 Instagram post. In the original post, the “Summertime Sadness” singer aimed at critics who said her music was “glamorizing abuse” by pointing out that artists such as Minaj, Beyoncé, Doja Cat and others had earned No. 1 songs singing about “being sexy, wearing no clothes, f–king, cheating etc.”

“Remember that time Lana dissed all the girlies but we had no idea why but none of us said anything back?” Minaj wrote. “Lmaooooo not we let Lana walk in the lunchroom & run EVERYBODY pockets wit no weapon & no gang & said not one thing about it. Lmfaooooo … I fkng love this s–t yo.”

Closing out her string of tweets, Minaj added that Del Rey’s song snippet helped her understand why some fans “can discover an artist years & years into their career then go back & listen to their entire discography & become a die hard fan” after listening to a new song. “I always hear my label & new fans of all diff artists talking about that but now I RLLY get it,” she said.

See Nicki Minaj’s tweets about the Lana Del Rey & Ethel Cain beef below: