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Nicki Minaj vs Cardi B: What happened?
2014: While working as an exotic dancer Cardi B starts gaining popularity online from her comedic videos. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1270163940903997440
2015: After dancing for 5 years, Cardi B joins the cast of “Love & Hip Hop: New York” season 6 as a social media star/aspiring female rapper and the side love interest of Dj Self. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1270166418693242880
2015: Cardi B is featured alongside Popcaan on Shaggys “Boom Boom Remix” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1270176574302834688
2015: Cardi B is featured on N.O Corleone’s “Know the Difference” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1270178357670526977
December 2015: Cardi B releases her 1st single “Cheap Ass Weave” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1274836056928661504
2015: This year Nicki Minaj was featured alongside BeBe Rexha on David Guetta’s “Hey Mama”. The song peaked at #8 on BBH100 becoming Nicki’s 12th Top 10. The song also spent 6 weeks in the top 10 of the UK chart. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278817128632721408
2015: This year Nicki Minaj is also featured alongside Chris Brown on Meek Mill’s “All Eyes On You” (#21 BBH100, #8 R&B/Hip Hop) and Madonna’s “Bitch I’m Madonna” (#84 BBH100, #1 Dance Club, #5 Dance/Electronic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278818815397318657
2015: After going viral for her “Queens Speech” freestyles, UK’s Lady Leshurr started gaining a lot of attention. She revealed in 2015 that she turned down a deal with Atlantic Records because they tried to sign her under the condition that she diss Nicki Minaj. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278829695090515970
Side Fact: a few years later rapper Cupcakke revealed that she was also offered and turned down a $250,000 deal from Atlantic to diss Nicki Minaj.
Feb 2016: Cardi B releases “Stripper Hoe” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278739082206740482
March 2016: Cardi B releases her debut mixtape “Gangsta Bitch Music: Vol 1” which reached #30 on Billboards R&B/Hip Hop chart.
April 2016: Cardi B releases “Foreva” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278786691260694528
June 2016: Cardi B releases “What A Girl Likes” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278789926570647563
July 2016: Cardi B releases “Washpoppin“ and is featured on CashFlow Harlem’s “Want My Love Back” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278791824904249359
July 2016: Cardi B is featured on "Island Girls” x Hood Celebrityy, feat. Josh X and Young Chow https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278794428816203777
July 2016: Cardi B makes her 1st official red carpet appearance at the 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors
Sept 2016: Cardi B releases “Bronx Season” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278823859643441153
Oct 2016: Cardi B is featured on Red Cafe’s “She A Bad One BBA Remix” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278825157566566405
Nov 2016: Cardi B is featured on Josh X’s “Heaven on My Mind” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278827232857817091
Nov 2016: Becoming the breakout star, Cardi does another season of Love & Hip Hop: NY https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278834044965474309
Dec 2016: Cardi B makes a cameo appearance in Phresher and Remy Ma’s “Wait A Minute Remix” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278835324693643264
2016: Nicki Minaj is featured on the remix to Yo Gotti’s “Down in the DM”. The song climbed from #31-#18 on BBH100 after the remix and peaked at #13. The song reached #3 on R&B/Hip Hop and is certified 3x Platinum. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278840747471536129
2016: Nicki Minaj also makes an appearance alongside Chris Brown, August Alsina, Jeremih, Future, and Rick Ross on Dj Khaled’s “Do You Mind” (#27 BBH100, #9 R&B/Hip Hop, #2 Rhythmic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278840289390706688
2016: Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande team you for their song “Side to Side” (#4 BBH100 stayed top 10 for 14 weeks, #1 Top 40 for 5 weeks, #2 Rhythmic, #4 UK) which is certified 4x Platinum. It’s since become highest streamed Female collaboration of all time topping “Bang Bang” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278845145270681600
Jan 2017: Its announced that Cardi B will be joining Lil’ Kim and Remy Ma on The Lox’s “Filthy America...Tour” for a Philly show in February.
Jan 2017: Cardi B goes on Hot 97 and reveals that a female rapper made her feel like she didn’t belong at her 1st red carpet appearance, but Kelly Rowland made her feel better about it. She didn’t name names so people assumed she was talking about Nicki Minaj. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278850866603327489
Side Fact: Cardi’s 1st red carpet was 2016 VH1 Hip Hop Honors where female rappers were being honored. Nicki and Cardi had not been on a carpet together at this point. These are some of the female rappers that were present.
Side Fact Cont: Kelly Rowland was also at this event
Jan 2017: Cardi B releases her 2nd mixtape “Gangsta Bitch Music: Vol 2
Feb 2017: Cardi B signs a record deal with Atlantic records
May 2017: Nicki Minaj posts a video of her in her studio singing along to her “Rake It Up” verse with Quavo of Migos.
May 2017: Cardi B adds Offset of Migos to her song “Lick” off her previously released mixtape “Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 2” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278865602757697537
May 2017: Cardi B goes on IG live and rants about the industry, once again people assume she’s talking about Nicki Minaj https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278859304746049536
May 2017: Cardi B IG Live Cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278859856796168193
May 2017: Cardi B IG Live cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278862634876624896
June 2017: Cardi B is featured on Phreshers “Right Now” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278863883554508812
June 2017: Cardi B releases her critically acclaimed major-label debut single “Bodak Yellow” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278871051108257792
June 2017: Remy Ma brings out Cardi B among other female rappers Young MA, Lil’ Kim, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Lady of Rage, Rah Digga, and Monie Love at Hot 97’s SummerJam https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278873344067198996
July 2017: Cardi B is featured on DRAM’s “Cute Remix” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278875365428146176
July 2017: Cardi B gets her 1st Billboard Hot 100 entry with “Bodak Yellow” when the song debuted at #85 in this month.
August 2017: Nicki Minaj is seen dancing in a club to Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278884823441039362
August 6 2017: Nicki Minaj reposts a video of Cardi B listening to “Rake It Up” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278903750715940864
August 12 2017: Cardi B throws shots at an unnamed enemy who tried to befriend her. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278904831575457792
August 13th and or 14th, 2017: Cardi B records and posts a video of herself remaking Nicki Minaj’s song “Win Again” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278911992972152832
August 13/14 2017: Cardi B tweets a lyric from Nicki Minaj’s song “Win Again”, Nicki RT’s Cardi and says that people trying to make them beef are reaching.
August 14 2017: Complex’s Everyday Struggle with Joe Budden, Dj Akademiks, and Nadeska Alexis begins pitting Cardi B & Nicki Minaj against one another. In this video they titled “Can Cardi B Become the Next Nicki Minaj” Joe Budden puts the theory out that they’re is a beef. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278908853791449088
August 14, 2017 Cont: Everyday Struggle Cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278909528009060352
August 18 2017: Cardi B releases a Latin Trap remix to “Bodak Yellow” featuring Messiah https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278916550527983616
August 28, 2017: Cardi B is asked about Nicki Minaj at the MTV VMA’s https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278913233169141762
August 2017: Everyday Struggle responds to Nicki Minaj and Cardi B denying their theory that they’re beefing. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278931045753262080
August 2017: Nicki Minaj is featured alongside 21 Savage and Offset on London On Da Tracks song “No Flags” . Although she was still in a battle with Remy Ma at this time, people speculated this verse was about Cardi B. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278946763089555457
August 2017: Nicki responds to someone asking if her “No Flags” verse is about Cardi B
Side Fact: London On Da Track discusses the making of “No Flags”
Side Fact: Nicki Minaj would later reveal on Queen Radio that she met you with Cardi B to squash any tension. Cardi felt a way about Nicki’s “No Flags” verse feeling it was a diss towards her. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278951779414282241
Sept 2017: Cardi B is featured on G-Eazy’s single “No Limit” (#4 BBH100, #2 R&B/Hip Hop, #1 Rhythmic) which is now certified 5x platinum. On Cardi’s verse she takes a shot at an opponent throwing subliminals, this causes speculation that she’s taking shots at Nicki Minaj. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278922446813495297
September 15, 2017: Cardi B dodges a question about Nicki Minaj while being interviews on iHeart Media/Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278934981482610694
September 15, 2017: Charlemagne asks Cardi B about Nicki Minaj again. Cardi denied any beef. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278937566960668673
September 15, 2017: The Breakfast Club starts the “Cardi B for the Culture” campaign in an effort to push Cardi’s record “Bodak Yellow” to #1. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278940210756190209
September 18, 2007: Cardi B releases another remix of “Bodak Yellow” this time with Kodak Black who’s song “No Flockin” inspired the track. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278943113713721344
September 2017: Media outlets such as The Shade Room begin to promote the “Cardi for the Culture” campaign. Cardi B also discounts all 3 versions of “Bodak Yellow”
September 25, 2017: Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” rises from #2 to #1 on BBH100 knocking Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” out of the top spot. This makes her the 1st female rapper since Lauryn Hill 20+ years prior to reach #1 solo. Also reached #1 on Hip Hop & Rhythmic
September 2017: Nicki Minaj congratulates Cardi B on her #1 record and Cardi responds
Sept 2017: Everyday Struggle continue to push the narrative that there is bad blood between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278963294787731456
October 2017: Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are both featured on Migos’ single “Motorsport” (#6 BBH100, #3 R&B/Hip Hop, #6 Rhythmic)
October 2017: Cardi B Motorsport Verse https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278960004675121152
October 2017: Nicki Minaj Motorsport Verse https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278960245138653184
October 2017: Everyday Struggle creates the theory that Cardi B and Nicki Minaj are dissing one another on the track and that Nicki Minaj was blindsided by Cardi’s appearance on the song. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278964046038020096
October 2017: Cardi B is asked about Nicki Minaj and if there is a beef. Cardi denies it. Nicki co-signs Cardi’s statement and goes into detail about how “Motorsport” came about.
October 2017: Everyday Struggle responds and claims that Nicki Minaj is lying about knowing Cardi B would be on “Motorsport” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1278971161314037760
Dec 2017: Cardi B is interviewed by Capital Xtra and asked about “Motorsport” as well as working with Nicki Minaj. Cardi responds that Nicki changed her verse on the track which fuels the rumors that there is a feud. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279092073606647809
Dec 7 2017: The Motorsport video drops and people start speculating that there is indeed a problem between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj because they don’t appear in any scenes together. Hot 97 pushes this narrative. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279095550823075844
Side Fact: Nicki Minaj later confirmed that there was a scheduling conflict with her hair stylist which is why she was unable to shoot the day Cardi B shot. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279104321989349376
Side Fact: Cardi B later confirms in an interview with Ebro that there was in fact a scheduling conflict in regards to the “Motorsport” video https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279111087997300742
Dec 15 2017: At the request of her fans , Nicki Minaj hops on the remix to A$AP Fergs song “Plain Jane” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279097561559846914
Dec 18 2017: A$AP Ferg is Interviewed by Hot 97. The hosts, specifically Ebro push the narrative that there is a beef between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279099298353950721
Dec 18 2017: A$AP Ferg on Hot 97 cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279100077928321024
Dec 18 2017: A$AP Ferg on Hot 97 cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279101066550947845
Dec 18 2017: A$AP Ferg on Hot 97 cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279101834699948032
Dec 18 2017: A$AP Ferg on Hot 97 cont https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279103057708625922
Dec 22 2017: Cardi B releases her 2nd single “Bartier Cardi” (#14 BBH100, #7 R&B/Hip Hop , #7 Rhythmic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279113022045327360
Dec 22 2017: Cardi B is featured on Ozuna’s “La Modelo” (#52 BBH100, #3 Latin) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279116983917821952
Side Fact: Nicki Minaj later reveals that Cardi B asked her to be on “Bartier Cardi” but she declined due to “Motorsport” dropping right before. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279115542528430082
2017: Nicki Minaj was featured on Jason Derulo’s “Swalla” (#29 BBH100, #20 Top 40, #12 Rhythmic, #6 UK) the song has since been certified 2x platinum and the video is at 1.4 billion views. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1263755766386827264
2017: Nicki Minaj is featured on Katy Perry’s “Swish Swish” (#46 BBH100, #1 Dance Club, #6 Dance/Electronic, #33 Top 40) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1263792055672877056
2017: Nicki Minaj is featured on Yo Gotti’s “Rake It Up” (#8 BBH100, #5 R&B/Hip Hop, #39 Top 40, #1 Rhythmic) which has since been certified 3x Platinum. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279123999121965058
2017: Nicki Minaj is featured on Futures “You Da Baddest” (#38 BBH100, #19 R&B/Hip Hop) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279126068520259584
2017: Nicki Minaj is featured on Fergies “You Already Know” https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279128062962130945
2017: Nicki Minaj was featured on Lil’ Uzi’s remix to “The Way Life Goes” (#24 BBH100, #11 R&B/Hip Hop, #13 Rhythmic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279129361334009861
Jan 4 2018: Cardi B is featured on the remix to Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (#3 BBH100, #1 Dance Club, #1 R&B/Hip Hop, #1 Top 40, #1 Rhythmic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279118956083793920
March 2018: Cardi B releases her single “Be Careful” (#11 BBH100, #8 R&B/Hip Hop, #1 Rhythmic) https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279134733637738503
March 2018: A video leaks of Pardison Fontaine (Jordan Thorpe) rapping over “Be Careful” which sparks the allegations that Cardi B has a ghost writer. https://twitter.com/media_nika/status/1279135682762588161
Side Fact: Pardison Fontaine (Jordan Thorpe) is a credited writer on majority of Cardi B’s songs as well as her features.
Side Fact: Pardison (Thorpe) writing credits cont
Side Fact: Pardison (Thorpe) writing credits cont
