Nicki Minaj refuses to apologize to Miley Cyrus after calling her out at the VMA’s. The feud between Cyrus and Minaj started in August when Cyrus criticized the Queens rapper in a New York Times interview for starting trouble with Taylor Swift and not having an “open heart” regarding Minaj’s emotions towards not receiving a Video of the Year Nomination.
“If you do things with an open heart and you come at things with love, you would be heard and I would respect your statement. But I don’t respect your statement because of the anger that came with it. And it’s not anger like, ‘Guys, I’m frustrated about some things that are a bigger issue.’ You made it about you. Not to sound like a bitch, but that’s like, ‘Eh, I didn’t get my VMA.’” Cyrus says in the interview. “If you want to make it about race, there’s a way you could do that. But don’t make it just about yourself. Say: ‘This is the reason why I think it’s important to be nominated. There’s girls everywhere with this body type.’ What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind. It’s not very polite. I think there’s a way you speak to people with openness and love.”
When Nicki Minaj received her VMA for Best Hip-Hop Video, Anaconda, she fired back at Cyrus during her acceptance speech, “Back to this b*tch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press. Miley, what’s good!” she fired back.
Cyrus appeared to be shocked, but tried to keep calm as if she was not affected when the camera panned back to her. “Hey,” she said to Minaj, “We all do interviews, we all know how they manipulate s–t. Congratuf—inglations, Nicki.”
Two months later, Minaj still scolds Miley for not understanding the full picture of why she was upset in the first place about the VMA nomination. “The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls,” the musician said in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine‘s Culture Issue, out Oct. 11. “You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that.”