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Lauren LaRosa
This is an I heart podcast. Let's get to it. Time to do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit about everything. And everybody, you know, she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, guys, it's Lauren LaRosa. And this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. 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 gonna 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, Nicki Minaj and sza, we're definitely gonna get into that as well, because let me tell y', all, we talking about conversations that shake the room, baby. Nicki Minaj has been trying to have a conversation for about a month or so now just about the wrongs that she allege are being done to her in this industry. This is not a conversation that we are unfamiliar with when it comes to Nicki Minaj. She is, 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 SZ 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, like 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 are here tweeting that. And I'm here on Twitter talking about all the things that I'm talking about and have 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 a stray, 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 29, 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 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 convers conversation here of the way that Nicki Minaj is viewed at this point. Is this helpful or is this hurtful? Does it get her to her end goal 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, you know, SZA not being able to sing all of these things. Let's take a listen.
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Nicki Minaj
Listen, Mizza, okay, Find you somebody to play with. Ms. Les Miserable. I said find you some else body to play with. You already played with your own hoe. And we seen how that went. And you know, I don't the, the, you know, surgery shame or body shame. You know, I don't even do that. But I don't know if you fat, obese, chubby or skinny, gotta get up on my hair.
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Lauren LaRosa
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 stepped my ass out on a packed 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. This was a fan who was responding to her. In response to Nicki Minaj, the fan has said, you really don't want to start this, girl. If you was crying before, you gonna really be crying now. The Barb's gonna get at you, baby. Them Barbs ain't nothing to play with 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 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 Tings, and it says SZA's SOS tour has grossed $100 million. SZA joins Tina Turner, Beyonce and Rihanna as the only black women to achieve the milestone with a tournament. She said, listen, I'm letting you know something right here. Don't play with me. Then she tweeted, laugh 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 sis, listen, you can come in the room, but you can't sit with me.
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Nicki Minaj
Let's take a listen, Mizza, 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 yo yodeling on somewhere else. What the.
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Lauren LaRosa
You don't try.
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Nicki Minaj
They tried to break that man back or something, I think allegedly.
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Lauren LaRosa
How the.
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Nicki Minaj
Did you match the dots Every time you put back on the freckles is what we get. The people want to motherf know, I.
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Lauren LaRosa
Love both the girls. I am a big SZA fan. I am a huge fan of Nicki Minaj's pen. 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 that 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. 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, you know, a few years ago for a future, 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 it. You know what I mean? But, yeah, so he's like, look, I have no idea. I was lost. Cause 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 she hadn't tweeted since, like, June. Something that's not a coincidence. Let's not play crazy here, because the broken Barbie's 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 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, Nikki 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 in a woman, because I understand, like. And Nicki Minaj tried to get to this deeper conversation of it. You know, she talked about, when you're a woman, you 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 watch, 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 in, 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 if we removed all of the things, all of the past beef, all of 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 and back into a corner. What can Nicki Minaj do to better have this conversation? Because that's a common denominator, honestly, like, yeah, there's 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 you for the tweets. We outside, we outside. We outside, outside in the tweet. Every other page are gold. 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 Nikki 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, like, I. 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 covered on Breakfast Club, you know, her coming at Jay Z and alleging that Jay Z is trying to silence her. Right now we. I want to see the receipts. Now. We talking about, you know, 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. Cause 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 what I mean, don't look like ours. Male dominated egos. We've all been there. So I'll hold that like, I'll. I'll keep that in the back of my mind. But we need to see the receipts. Nikki, drop them. 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, is doing these things to you. It's Punch, president of tde. Let's see the receipts. This is an Iheart podcast.