On July 8, Nicki Minaj took to both Instagram and X to air a series of grievances. Over a sprawling series of posts, she took aim at Megan Thee Stallion, her management company Roc Nation, its founder Jay-Z, its CEO Desiree Perez and even the Democratic party in the U.S. Here’s a brief breakdown of her gripes, which she repeatedly wrote were “all alleged & for entertainment purposes only.” A Roc Nation representative and a rep for Megan Thee Stallion did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s requests for comment.
On Megan Thee Stallion
Minaj seemed to delight in the news that Megan Thee Stallion and her management company Roc Nation could not dismiss her former cameraman’s lawsuit against them. Last spring, Emilio Garcia accused the rapper of forcing him to watch her have sex with women while traveling with her in Ibiza, Spain, in 2022. Among claims that he was stripped of pay and fired by Roc Nation, he alleged the Ibiza incident happened in part because he is a gay man, constituting a hostile work environment based on his sexual orientation and gender.
The Pink Friday rapper appeared to bolster this claim, writing, “Being a gay man doesn’t give any woman the right to sexually grind on you or have sex in front of you.” She added, “I remember seeing someone grinding on their hair stylist & he seemed so uncomfortable.” Minaj has previously claimed Megan acted inappropriately around the time they filmed the music video for their one collaboration, “Hot Girl Summer,” in 2019. The pair have had tension since, culminating in Megan’s chart-topping diss “Hiss” where she seemingly taunted Minaj by rapping: “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan/These hoes mad at Megan’s Law,” an apparent nod to Minaj’s husband and brother’s sex offender convictions.
“What was the name of that law again????????” Minaj wrote in an Instagram caption of a screengrab of the news of Garcia’s lawsuit persisting. “Karma’s Law? Touch not my anointed law? Vengeance is the Lord’s law? We give God the glory & he’s only just begun. Have a blessed day if you can.”
On Desiree Perez
Retweeting an X account invoking Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez in Garcia’s case against the company, Minaj began attacking the music executive, calling her “Desirat.” Among her attacks, Minaj targeted Perez for receiving a pardon for decades old narcotics and parole crimes from President Trump in 2021. “Desirat were you out marching with your fellow Mexican immigrants?????,” wrote Minaj, seemingly referencing anti-ICE movements across the country. (Also, Perez is Cuban.) “Oh, right…you were pardoned by President Trump so you kinda can’t, right? I mean it kind of implies you guys are cool with him while yall seem to pretend to be against him.” Minaj lambasted Jay-Z for not hiring a Black woman as CEO and wrote that the pair have “ruined” several aspects of the sports and music industry. Minaj had previously criticized Roc Nation when Kendrick Lamar was chosen to perform at this year’s Super Bowl over Lil Wayne.
On Jay-Z
When Minaj turned her ire to Jay-Z, she accused him of letting “Desirat do a lot of evil to black ppl & you stayed silent. We used to believe you.” Among many complaints about Jay-Z’s work with Perez, Minaj claimed the mogul owed her money, which she would use to “send some of my Barbz to college, pay their school fees & student loans via my #StudentOfTheGame charity.” She also invoked a prior claim that Roc Nation employed “bots” in support of their artists online. “#JayZ call me to settle this karmic debt,” she wrote. “It’s only collecting more interest. You still in my TOP 5 tho.”
Minaj also insinuated that Jay-Z and Perez didn’t support former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 run for president with the vigor that the rapper supported former President Obama’s campaigns because of an alleged allegiance to President Trump due to Perez’s pardon. “Brother billionaire never got in the field for yall, huh?” she wrote. “When yall needed him the most. After all that money he made off the democratic [sic] party.”
On the Democrats
That brings us to Minaj’s beef with Democrats more broadly. “President Biden posting not like us after Desirat was pardoned by President Trump is so 😩,” she wrote, uniting her complaints about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl performance and Perez’s pardon. Then, in one of her last X posts of the day, Minaj wrote, “Democrats attacked me over my cousin’s balls. Remember?” This is seemingly in reference to the Covid-19 vaccine skepticism Minaj notably shared in 2021, which was fact-checked by Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“Let’s see if they have any thoughts on that DESIRAT pardon,” Minaj continued. “Let’s see if they have any thoughts on brother billionaire never campaigning for Kamala even after Obama pleaded with the ‘brothers.’ Isn’t this THEE ‘brother’?!??!! Thee one ‘brother’ who could’ve probably gotten the job done for yall?!?!!!!! Welp. If the top brother in charge can leave yall hanging w/o repercussions then may everyone else leave you hanging as well. Hanging like my cousin’s friend’s balls.”
