Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj are two bad-ass female musicians who have collaborated on a number of tracks together. The two recently released the single “Bed” together, which is featured on Ariana Grande’s new album “Sweetener.”
Both Grande and Minaj were set to drop their new albums in August. Ariana Grande has been vocal on social media about her album coming August 17th. Fans everywhere have been counting down the days until it’s release. Nicki Minaj, however, was set to be released on August 10th (earlier than Grande’s album)–however, she ran into some sampling clearance issues and pushed it back to August 17th, the same day as Ariana Grande’s.
She wrote a note to fans on her Apple Music Essentials playlist takeover saying:
My darlings!!! I have a huge surprise that I can’t share until the day before #Queen drops. So in the meantime, check out this playlist I made for you guys. I did #FEFE with my new BFF from BROOKLYN. He’s a little funny looking but he’s really sweet under all those tats. New York til da DEF!!!! Ha! Last time I teamed up with YG was for his remix to “My Hitta.” We recently performed #BigBank at the BET Awards and had a blast wit my dudes Big Sean and 2 Chainz. I have classic bops with all 3 of them so I’m including them on this list. I’m super excited about my recent collaboration with Ariana Grande. She’s one of the realest artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with. She couldn’t fly with me to Turks to shoot the #BedVideo so we shot her scenes in Malibu. We’re actually working on edit number 2 for the #BedVideo to include all the fun stuff we had to remove. I love “Ball For Me” with Post Malone. Not sure why he won’t release the video. It’s DOPE!!! I hope you enjoy my playlist. Can’t wait for you guys to hear my 4th album QUEEN ON AUGUST 17!!!!!!!”
Fans on Twitter quickly began to pin Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj against each other, saying Nicki was wrong and foolish for deciding to drop her album the same day. Many argued it would “take away” from streaming numbers.
let’s set this straight. nicki better not push back anything. her album date is august 10th. period. i don’t need any war to start between ariana and nicki stans. WE ARE A FAMILY FFS, ariana text nicki or sumn
— wes (@arigotclout) August 1, 2018
Nicki ain’t Ariana’s friend PERIODT
— . (@lucifergrande) August 1, 2018
Idc how Ariana is pretending to feel. Nicki is still wrong all together. I said what I said and I meant every word. pic.twitter.com/x9IdlzOxE7
— sunshine (@joshischillin) August 1, 2018
If Nicki blocks Ariana from #1 I’m gonna be so pissed. She’s been blocked so many times by Drake and now when it looks like she’ll have a clear release day Nicki suddenly changes her release date? I love Nicki but this isn’t it
— R Sweetener (@arianaspilltea) August 1, 2018
nicki sweetie….. what tf are you doing ? why didn’t you just release the collaboration as a single later after you released the album. why would you intentionally release it the same day as ariana? i’m- pic.twitter.com/70txbs3XSw
— ari (@foreverbuterah) August 1, 2018
one of the only fan bases that actually supports nicki’s is ariana’s and now that she pushed her album to the same day as hers she really is fucked sisssss what is you doing
— ari (@STRAYKUSH) August 1, 2018
correct me if i'm wrong but i think ariana has the most antecipated album of the year and there's no competition for her. the pre-orders are doing fine. i love nicki but this era is a mess and she shouldn't change the date bc she's gonna get blocked……
— thales (@teasybutera) August 1, 2018
I’m so upset that so many artists are releasing their albums on ARIANAS day. Like ariana was the first to release her album date….then now it’s lil pump and Nicki minaj. Like I love all of them but it’s Ariana’s day..
— ?????? ♡ (@sweetenbuteras) August 1, 2018
nicki pushing back her album release date to the same as ariana’s to add in a last minute track with DRAKE, an artist who’s blocked ariana’s success a multitude at this point….. i’m- so sick
— ? (@arianaskehlani) August 2, 2018
i love nicki but if she drops #queen the same day ariana drops #sweetener she’s cancelled-
i mean we all know sweetener will go #1 on bbmas200 so there’s no point in pushing the album back & fuck that track, she had MONTHS— angel?? (@abitgrande) August 1, 2018
Ariana Grande was not happy to see all of this hate on her timeline. She responded by saying that people need to stop the bullsh*t.
jesus is this what’s going on today? imma jus stop logging in at all lmfao. that’s my fucking sister. she’s clearing a sample. buy and stream queen & sweetener aug 17 bye. these numbers don’t mean as much to the artist as they do to y’all. jus want y’all to listen to the project.
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) August 1, 2018
She even said her and Nicki had spoken about the “beef.”
me n nicki laughed at dat
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) August 1, 2018
And, Nicki also spoke out about the drama.
I love this woman. Can’t wait for the fans to benefit from all the hard work on both ends. We love your passion. You guys will be VERY happy. Trust. That’s all I’ll say ??? https://t.co/dWE95pfYi2
— QUEEN (@NICKIMINAJ) August 1, 2018
People on Twitter began to drag those who were stirring the pot, saying they’re always trying to pin women against each other.
why do ya’ll constantly pin Ariana and Nicki against eachother when they’re such good friends wtf is wrong with twitter
— j (@arianabisou) August 2, 2018
Really? Now y'all pitting Nicki and Ariana against each other??? Wtf wrong with y'all
— Janritz (@janritseu) August 2, 2018
y’all sitting there like “if nicki releasing on the same day i’m unstanning” “what’s wrong with nicki this is ariana’s day” calm tf down honestly y’all want heat where there’s all love https://t.co/aYR5cW8Q1f
— mehr ♡ (@justbocas) August 2, 2018
People hating on Nicki cause she has her album coming out the same day as Ariana is EXACTLY what's wrong with women. You can't just be happy & excited for two strong women. You have to be assholes & compare them. They're both about to bless tf out of us. Stop complaining & enjoy.
— bored (@happpystan) August 1, 2018
“omg nicki releases her album on the same day as ariana “ instead of being pressed be happy for the double amount of music we’re getting in one day ? the fuck
— ♡ (@fuIIyimprinted) August 1, 2018