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*Nicki Minaj posted a screenshot of the iTunes chart on Saturday night, which showed that white rappers Eminem, Post Malone, G-Eazy, Macklemore and Machine Gun Kelly were dominating hip-hop.
“It’s a great time to be a white rapper in America huh?” she wrote on Instagram.
The post immediately sparked debate on social media. Many fans supported Nicki’s decision to call attention to the charts, while others criticized her for “singling out” white artists.
Nicki later clarified her views by sucking up to Eminem.
“S/O Em & Post. Two of my faves. Congrats to Em on his new album,” she added to her initial post.
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But Minaj wasn’t having the backlash. She clapped back at critics who took issue with her post on Sunday (Dec. 17). In another update for the now-deleted post, she responded to the “sensitive” folks who opposed her observation about the industry.
“Update blocking all u sensitive dick riders,” she wrote. “It IS a great time to be a white rapper in America. I wanna sign one for my new label. U know anyone? I spk my mthafkn mind n if u don’t like it gtfo my page dick rida! Y’all can never wait to ride the Queen dick! Sensitive ass ig thugs. Gtfoh.”
In a follow-up post, Nicki pointed to a clip of J. Cole speaking about his song “Fire Squad,” which addressed the white takeover of black music in 2014.
“I went to the iTunes Jazz page and I was like, ‘Oh!’ It hit me,” he says in the interview. “The entire page of iTunes Jazz is 99.7% white people… Jazz is a black form of music in its origins. And not only is it a black form of music, it was the hip-hop of its day. It was that much of a rebellious music.”
Nicki shared further thoughts about her initial post.
“whenever a black woman speaks on ANYTHING she’s labeled as “mad” “angry” “bitter,” she wrote in her caption. “I’m on 4 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. I’m blessed & highly favored thx to my amazing fans. But I’ll spk on whatever the fuck I want to whenever the fuck I want to. I love being a smart successful woman. It’s never been cool or funny to be illiterate or uninterested in your own industry & how it works.”
She has reportedly deleted all of her IG posts criticizing the whitewashing of hip-hop.
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