Nicki Minaj is loving Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl.
In a series of posts on X on Friday (Oct. 3), the day of the album’s release, the rapper shared some of her thoughts — including her favorite songs. In particular, Minaj was a fan of “Wood,” which she wrote was “EXACTLY what I needed tonight.”
“Oh this writing will go over yall heads,” she added, sharing a few lines from the double-entendre-packed track on Swift’s new LP.
Minaj also praised “Eldest Daughter” — “The writing is always so intentional & always resonates with the AUTHENTIC lone wolves,” she wrote — and title track “The Life of a Showgirl,” which features Sabrina Carpenter. “I love how animated Sabrina came in on her verse,” the hip-hop titan gushed. “She’s fully in character. She gets it.”
And as a star who isn’t shy about beefing with others publicly, Minaj was bound to favor “Actually Romantic” (a diss track fans are speculating is about Charli XCX) as well. “Taylor said ‘I heard you called me boring Barbie when the Coke’s got your brain,’” she posted. “Why all the SAG’s giving out lashings tonight? Oh wow. and #Cancelled is diabolical … Let’s go TAYLOR!!!!!!”
“GO IN FOR THE KILL, TAYLOR,” Minaj added. “The fact that Taylor is a battle rapper is sending me.”
Swift and the Queen of Rap have long been fans of one another’s work. Since 2010, Minaj has credited the Eras Tour headliner with helping “Super Bass” take off by speaking so highly of the song when it first dropped. And though the two women had a brief social media spat in 2015 — which they quickly resolved and put to bed with a joint performance at the VMAs — they’ve stayed supportive of one another over the years.
In December 2023, Minaj said that she would collaborate with her fellow Sagittarius in a “heart beat.”
“The [SAGITTARIUS] QUEEN TAYLOR DESERVES!!!! PERIOD!!!!!” she added at the time. “She takes months & years off then comes back with great music & fans who’ll never leave her!!!!”
But while Swift is on the receiving end of praise on Minaj’s X profile, the other music star the rapper has been posting about lately couldn’t be farther from it. For several days, Minaj and Card B have been embroiled in a vicious back-and-forth on the platform, with the two women trading sharp barbs about each other’s appearances and children.
Swift’s name was actually brought into the feud at one point. After Minaj taunted Cardi by saying the Bronx native wasn’t able to “outsell” her, Cardi fired back, “You been in the game like 16 years.”
“You need to compare yourself to YOUR peers that started around YOUR time. Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Drake,” Cardi continued at the time. “Those are the numbers you need to be competing wit and you can’t cuz you doing lower than all of them. I was in high school when you came out wtf is you comparing yourself to me for???”