The Breakfast Club - Nicki Minaj & Sza go at it.. here’s why! A deeper conversation…

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Nicky Minaj and SZA had it out last night on X and what a mess it was…. Maybe it’s time to see some receipts from Nicky so that we can better understand how to fix the things she’s saying are broken.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is your Daily Dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and the conversations that shake the room. Now I got a bunch of a bunch of stuff for you guys today. I am excited to get to because it's some of my favorite things. We're going to get into the Real Housewives of Atlanta, Drop a Bomb. Not so favorite thing, but two of my, you know, artists that I actually love to listen to, Nikki Minaj and SZA. We're definitely going to get into that as well, because let me tell y'all, we talk about conversations that shake the room, baby. Nikki

Minaj has been trying to have a conversation for about a month or so now just about the wrongs that she alleged are being done to her in this industry. This is not a conversation that we are unfamiliar with when it comes to Nikki Minaj. She is always very, you know, vocal and quick to let us know what is happening according to her, allegedly, even if we don't know what's happening, right? So let's talk a bit about that. So there was a long, long feud yesterday on X. And when I say feud, that normally means two people going back and forth. The feud didn't last long because SZA got in and got out. Nicki Minaj continued through the end of the night.

She ended her night on station head going in on SZA because Nicki Minaj felt like TDE. SZA's manager punch of TDE who was president over at TDE. TDE is the label out of the West Coast that has or had Kendrick Lamar and, you know, they got SZA and, you know, they are the West Coast at this at this point in time. They have been for some time. Nicki Minaj felt as though he was trying to be funny. He tweeted Broken Barbies, which is a song by an artist named I am luck that they are

currently working with and then tweeted the video to the song but Nicki Minaj took it as how coincidental that you were here tweeting that and I'm here on Twitter talking about all the things that I'm talking about and had been for the last like two weeks so she started coming for him alleging that you know because of her not wanting to work with him there had been retaliation on his part and also alleging, you know, that this is what this is what happens when women get out in the field. You're going to get bloody. No pun intended. When women get out in the field, there's always issues,

especially when it comes to the men in the industry. Now, SZA, my baby girl, homegirl caught us straight, if I'm being honest. SZA got back on X, right? And, you know, let me go double check this timeline because some fans pointed out like, oh, it's very convenient the time that SZA decided to get back on X and have the, and tweet this.

So SZA, her last tweet was June 29th, 2025, right? And then yesterday, and we are almost a month out, we are July 16, 2025. SZA gets on X and she tweets, Mercury retrograde, don't take that bait. Laugh out loud, silly goose. Now we talked about this on the Breakfast Club a bit, but I just wanted to give you guys a little bit more context here, because we have the time. And I really want to know, you know, here is not more per se me telling you what

happened, even though I'm giving you some background. I want to have the conversation here of, okay, I really want to know, you know, here is not more per se, me telling you what happened, even though I'm giving you some background. I want to have the conversation here of, the way that Nicki Minaj is viewed at this point, is this helpful or is this hurtful? Does it get hurt to her and go, or does it just make people turn off the noise, literally? So, SZA tweeted that and then Nicki Minaj began to go off,

talking about SZA's BBL, talking about SZA not being able to sing, all of these things. Let's take a listen. Listen, MZA. Okay? Find you somebody to motherfucking play with, MZA. Lay MZA raw, b****. I said find you some motherf***ing else b**** to play with, b****.

You already played with me. I said find you some motherf***ing else b***h to play with b***h. You already played with your own hoe and we seen how that went. And you know I don't, you know, surgery shame or body shame, you know I don't even do that. But b***h I don't know if you fat, obese, chubby or skinny. Gotta get up off my hair. Now, once this went down, like SZA did spar a bit, she responded back to a fan and she said, you know, I get bullied by millions online every day. Then I step my ass out on a PAX Stadium tour.

She's currently on the GNX tour with Kendrick Lamar, which we know because I've talked about it here, is doing very well right now Where people show me real and she capitalized real love and she capitalized in real life My parents are healthy and I'm the most successful I have ever been Capitalized get some effing perspective and bark at the wall. That's what she responded to this fan In Nicki Minaj and this was a fan who was responding to her in fan in Nicki Minaj. This was a fan who was responding to her in response to Nicki Minaj.

The fan had said, you really don't wanna start this girl. If you was crying before, you gonna really be crying now. The Barb's gonna get at you, baby. Them Barb's ain't in the play with it, but SZA, you know what I mean? She's speaking for her own self. So then another Barb tweeted SZA and said,

girl, you want a joint tour. Do that solo, I wanna see some. And S SZA and said girl you want a joint tour do that solo I want to see some and SZA responded said what the F you want to see let me know and she Posted tour numbers So she posted tour numbers from her SOS tour and what she posted was from an outlet called the pop teams And it says SZA SOS tour has grossed a hundred million dollars SZA joins Tina Turner Beyonce Beyonce, and Rihanna as the only black women to achieve the milestone

with a tour. She said, listen, I'm like, you know something right here. Don't play with me. Then she tweeted, laughed my ass off. Let me go back to being calm, shy, and meek. Baby, the people took this and ran with it because she said the word meek, and meek is like, I want to go back to being humble,

like, you know, nimble out of the way. But they of course thought that she was referencing Meek Mill because Meek Mill used to date Nicki Minaj. Lordy. She says, y'all have a blessed night. See you tomorrow night for Paris night number two. Then SZA started tweeting some of her numbers just from her like, you know, SOS, you know, plaques and just recognition

tweets that were coming her way. She started responding to some of those and Nicki Minaj went off again. Talking about why SZA is not an icon, basically told SZA, listen, you can come in the room, but you can't sit with me. Let's take a listen. MZA, you're come in the room, but you can't sit with me. Let's take a listen. Missy, you're not an icon. You are a yodeling fool who's who needs auto-tune, who done this. Every female entertainer, it seems, based off of, you know, the screenshots. Take your yodeling on somewhere else.

What the you don't try to try to break that man back or something, I think, allegedly. How the fuck did you match the dots every time you put back on the freckles is what we the people want to know? I love both the girls. I am a big sissafin. I am a huge fan of Nicki Minaj's pin. I do not agree with how Nicki Minaj goes about things majority of the time, like 90% of the time,

but I am a fan of Nicki Minaj's music. I don't think that there's anybody that can argue musically that Nicki Minaj is a miss because she's not, but I think where Nicki Minaj misses, and this is me bringing in my opinion here, it's like, I don't even think, let me back that up. I wouldn't even call it a miss. I think where people disconnect from Nicki Minaj

is in moments like this, because I don't fully know what happened, right? I also mentioned on the Breakfast Club this morning that I spoke to the president of TDE, Punch, who is the manager of SZA, who says, look, she reached out back a few years ago for a feature. She wanted SZA to get on a feature for her upcoming project. I told her I would get it to her, it ended there.

There was no beef, there was no nothing after that. I don't know what Nicki Minaj's side is. She says that she has a side and that she got the receipts of it. I don't know where her side is, but I will say that without having full context from both sides and even with full context from both sides, because SZA side is saying, yo, this is random. We weren't even talking about you.

Nobody was worried about you. What are you talking about? Nicki Minaj is like, Oh, y'all think that's just a coincidence that Broken Barbies is being tweeted. Mind y'all, this is not a, this is not an artist that punch hasn't already been talking about and you know what I mean? But yeah, so he's like look I have no idea I was lost cuz I kept saying I'm like, yo The world is lost. Can you please provide some color some context here? He's like, that's all I got for you I'm lost as well, too

people disconnect from Nicki Minaj because this always comes off as, you know, there's this narrative around Nicki Minaj that she just cannot get along with the other rap girls, the other girls in her industry, right? And I think people like to lean into that. And I think when you have a situation like this where Nicki Minaj is alleging one thing,

the other side is alleging another thing, until we see everything laid out on the table, it's hard to make an opinion or a narrative, but people run to do it. The people who feel like Nicki Minaj just be doing too much are quick to run and be like, yo, you have a problem with everybody. Relax. Like you're always doing too much. That girl was not tweeting about you. The people who back Nicki Minaj say, uh, she hadn't tweeted since like June something. That's not a coincidence. Let's not play crazy here because the Broken Barbies tweet had went up from her manager,

and here she comes talking about retrograde and not to take the bait because Nicki Minaj is now talking about punch on her timeline after his Broken Barbies tweet. For me, I just, I just really, um, about punch on her timeline after his broken Barbie's tweet. For me, I just I just really. I try and think about, you know. Being a woman in a situation where you feel like you're not being hurt and what that looks like on a surface level, on a surface level, it can be it can look nasty, it can give all the things that the people be saying,

yo, Nicki crazy, she do too much, she embarrassing herself. Especially because if I'm being honest with you, I felt like in the Nicki Minaj Cardi B situation, and I've said this publicly before, I felt like Nicki Minaj embarrassed herself. I felt like Nicki Minaj, the icon that she is, and rightfully so for her to claim that, was upset that

someone didn't want to bow and kiss the ring when she's publicly talked about being put in that position herself and how it didn't make her feel good but I also try to look at it like if that was done to you you're more likely to repeat it to somebody else that situation isn't the same here with SZA because her issue with SZA right now on the timeline is that she thinks SZA being funny with these indirect tweets, but it always leans back into that narrative of Nicki Minaj is problematic and I don't necessarily like to throw that on anybody, especially not a woman because I understand like Nicki Minaj tried to get to this deeper conversation of it, you know

She talked about when you're a woman you get get out in the field, these things happen. When you speak up for yourself, these things happen. But it's just hard. It's hard to not at least hear narrative that is out there because this continues to happen over and over and over and over again. There has been instances, like I mentioned with the Cardi B situation, where, you know, with me reporting on the story and knowing some of the inner workings,

and just honestly, even if not, even if I didn't, just watching as a fan, not reaching out, not getting, digging deeper, not doing any of that, just watching as a person who was a fan of the music at that time when Nicki Minaj and Cardi had their feud, it very much gave, Nicki, do you not know who you are? Why is there an issue here?

There's no issue, so why is there an issue, is what it gave, right? So that always comes back around. I want to know what y'all think though. Like honestly, if you remove, because I think people are so divisive and like, you know, when it comes to Nicki Minaj, you're either a Barb, so you're hard on one side of like everything Nicki does is right, or you're completely against her where you're like, yo, this lady is crazy. Why is she always doing this stuff?

She's always a common denominator. I want y'all to meet me in the middle right now and let's have a conversation about it. We removed all of the things, all of the past beef, all of the whatever, is there a conversation to be had with Nicki Minaj about, and I'm not alleging that any of the wrongs that she is saying happened to her, like retaliation or any of those things happened. I don't know if that happened. I know what I was told from the person she's alleging did it

and he said that never happened. And I know what Nicki Minaj is alleging happened. She's saying she was retaliated against because she didn't want to work with the TDE team. I don't know what is true or not true. I only can go by what people are saying for themselves, right, and present both sides of that, which I just did. But when it comes to women trying to have the conversation

about feeling as if every time they get out there for themselves, they're back into and back into a corner. What can Nicki Minaj do to better have this conversation? Because that's a common denominator. Honestly, like, yeah, these all these issues and she falling out with all these people and like whatever. But at the end of the day, it always comes back to her feeling like I'm fighting for myself and y'all don't want to listen because I'm a woman.

And the conversation be so missed you can't even hear you don't want to because of all the other drama. So tweet me. I'm Lauren LaRosa everywhere l-o-r-e-n l-o-r-o-s-a I'm on Instagram as well. I want to know are there things that Nicki Minaj could do to better have this conversation? I think for me, if we taking it, you know what I mean, taking it to the streets and the tweets, what can be done to better have this conversation in a way where maybe we can understand

where Nicki coming from? I think for me, I just would need to see more, look, be mad at me for saying this or not. I need to see the receipts. Because other than that, everything is just claims and that's a lot to throw on a person. Like, hey, because I'm a woman, you did this and you did that.

I wanna see the receipts. And then once we see the receipts and we know that this is happening, then we can kind of backtrack and say, okay, when she did have this conversation, here is why she did it. Until then, it's like we have nothing to point at. I've been covering on a breakfast club,

her coming at Jay-Z and alleging that Jay-Z is trying to silence her right now. I wanna see the receipts. Now we talking about these big allegations, I think receipts are only valid to say, hey, before we even have the conversation, I'm asking you guys if we should have. Because y'all know for me, you know,

I'm totally here for the conversations that's gonna shake the room of like, yo, I'm a woman and y'all playing with me because I am. As a woman, we've all been in positions where we felt like our intelligence and you know, we've been tested because of egos that you know I mean don't don't look like ours male-dominated egos we've all been there so I'll hold that like I'll keep that in the back of my mind but we need to see

the receipts Nikki drop them let's let's talk let's have the conversation you've been alleging these things for years it's Jay-Z now that you're alleging. It's doing these things to you. It's Punch, president of TDE. Let's take their seats. This is an iHeart Podcast.