Nicki Minaj's latest album Queen surprise-dropped last Friday and fans are in a frenzy—but many Barbz aren't loving some of the lyrics. LGBTQ fans have even accused Minaj of using homophobic insults to take down male rappers.
On the album's second track "Majesty," Minaj raps:
“Who want it with Nicki now/I smoke ‘em like hippies now/they see me say ‘Yippie’ now/home runnin’ like Griffey now/they switchin’ like sissies now/you niggas is iffy now.”
Many queer people have had the word sissy thrown at them as an insult, so it stings a bit when Minaj uses it to belittle someone. It burns even more when you consider the eerily similar lyrics from her 2008 mixtape in which she raps, "First they love you/then they switch/they switch like f*ggots."
\u201cHow many times is Nicki about to call y\u2019all sissies and fags lmfao\u201d— ochodatheaux (@ochodatheaux) 1533923669
Minaj has apologized for those lyrics from a decade ago, but adding more fuel to this fire, in the very next track "Barbie Dreams," Minaj disses many of the biggest male rappers in the game and seems to attack Young Thug's perceived feminity. She raps:
"Used to fuck with Young Thug/I ain’t addressing this shit/caught him in my dressing room / stealing dresses and shit / I used to give this nigga with a lisp testers and shit / how you want the pu-thy? / Can’t say S’s and shit."
Minaj appears to be putting down Young Thug with gay stereotypes, makes fun of lisps, men wearing dresses, and even questions if he is actually heterosexual.
Fans weren't happy with the lyrics.
\u201cSo y\u2019all canceled offset for using the word Queer in a song but it\u2019s ok for Nicki to use the word sissy in hers?\u201d— Boneta Veneta (@Boneta Veneta) 1533935146
\u201cI know I'm going to be in the minority, but Barbie Dreams is offensive. The homophobia, fat shaming, ableism, femmephobia, and shit is annoying. I actually can do without all that. I need Nicki Minaj to grow up.\u201d— bunny mama. \ud83d\udc1d\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddfe (@bunny mama. \ud83d\udc1d\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddfe) 1533932673
\u201cI do wonder if some of these cis women that make gay/trans jokes realize that they\u2019re playing into the hands of the patriarchy that sees anything in their likeness as weak.\u201d— JOHNNY SIBILLY (@JOHNNY SIBILLY) 1533934618
