No matter where your loyalties lie, one thing’s clear—rolling with Nicki Minaj often comes with baggage. Over the years, Nicki has had her fair share of public clashes with other women in rap, with her feud against Bronx native Cardi B being the most infamous.
That tension helped spark speculation that Cardi and Ice Spice—though both hailing from the Bronx—would also end up at odds. At first, that wasn’t the case.
So how did things flip? Here’s a breakdown of Cardi B’s growing beef with Ice Spice, explained.
June 2022: Ice Spice shows love to Cardi B
In an interview with Audiomack, Ice Spice praised Cardi for what she’s done for their shared hometown.
“Cardi B put the Bronx on the map AGAIN, especially for females. But also because it’s the last authentic borough,” Ice said. “I think people are interested in how it truly is, in how everybody from here is really from here. Our parents are from here, our grandparents are from here, you know? People are just really interested in our culture. They’re fascinated by how raw it is.”
September 2022: Cardi B hints at a “Munch” remix
A few months later, Cardi teased fans with the idea of hopping on a verse for Ice Spice’s breakout hit “Munch,” sparking excitement online about a possible collab.
Ice Spice shocked the rap world with her rapid rise after dropping her breakout hit “Munch.” The buzz was so big that even Cardi B jumped in, recording an unofficial remix.
In a clip posted to social media, Cardi strutted in a sleek black dress while the unreleased track played in the background. “He wants to see what it is like a gender reveal / Pissing on bitches is really a skill / Bitches dead to me, dammit, dead to me still,” she rapped.
Fans begged for the full version, but Cardi shut it down, writing, “I like it don’t love it ….just having fun,” as her reason for not releasing the track.
June 2023: Cardi clears the air on shading Ice Spice
“For y’all muthafuckas that’s on Twitter trying to be messy, please, cut the bullshit,” Cardi said while rocking a terrycloth robe and getting her hair done on Instagram Live. She was addressing fans who claimed she shaded Ice Spice during her Hot 97 Summer Jam set.
Cardi called her viewers “messy and annoying” for pushing that narrative. “That’s not me, like come on now. First of all, y’all been wanting me to be messy all things. Y’all wanted me to be messy on the song, y’all wanted me to—nah, come on now.”
The speculation came after Cardi performed “Tomorrow 2” with an animation in the background that looked a lot like Little Orphan Annie. But with its red curly hair and dance moves, many fans instantly thought of Ice Spice. Cardi shut it down, saying, “Cut the bullshit, please. Get the mop. Y’all being too messy and y’all being annoying.”
March 2024: Fans speculate about Cardi B’s “Enough (Miami)”
Cardi B’s single “Enough (Miami)” had fans speculating about who exactly she was calling out in the chorus.
In the video, Cardi is seen against an all-white backdrop, later switching to an all-black leather look at the 0:42 mark. Some fans pointed out that her pose in this scene mirrored Ice Spice’s stance on the Like..? EP cover—leading to theories that she was shading Ice as one of her “opps.”
Interestingly, Cardi revealed the track was originally titled “Cardi K.” Explaining the name, she wrote on X: “The song is originally called ‘And Her Name is Cardi K’ is because I did this song…I was really angry, like bitches was ganging up on me…I feel like I was very like underestimated. Even my fan base, it’s big but it’s a very underestimated fanbase. So Cardi K, I don’t know if you know how people be like EBK, Everybody Killer, so I felt like everybody was on some Cardi K shit.”
April 3, 2024: Cardi and Ice show love online
The tension seemed to cool months later after Cardi clapped back at influencer Raymonte, who had labeled her “very, very ghetto” in a TikTok video.
Raymonte dismissed comparisons to Cardi by saying: “She’s way ghettoer than me, she’s way hooder, way gangster, greasy [than] me. She was outside with the damn Bloods, and y’all don’t say that this lady is ghetto. Y’all don’t say that she isn’t marketable.”
Cardi responded on X, pointing out how people have judged her since fame: “It’s crazy because when I became famous people said I’m ghetto…Talked shit about my accent, call me dumb because of the way I speak, say I got no couth, talk about my teeth, my braids, my two buns… and to this day, no matter what I accomplished I still get called a stripper all because I’m from the ghetto.”
When the back-and-forth escalated, Raymonte mistakenly called her “Mexican.” Cardi corrected him in a heartfelt reply, saying: “Same reason why you felt comfortable calling me Mexican when I’m Dominican and I asked you why you feel comfortable calling me a Mexican when [Ice Spice] and jharell jerome Zoe Saldana are Dominicans and you don’t do that to them. You do it to me because you know that’s what people use to hurt me…”
Ice Spice then chimed in with a quote-tweet: “no offense bardi its because I have a dominican parent & a black one [sobbing emoji] [black heart emoji].”
Cardi clarified her point in another response to Ice: “I think there might be some confusion on what was said. I asked why he feels so comfortable calling me Mexican? I have no Mexican parents. My mom is Trini.. she came out of a whole black woman. My father is Dominican..I’m Dominican just like you. I also used other Dominicans as an example because as you should know a lot of times we get clustered into one because of the language. Also can you send me that pic you took of me wit ya camera from vanity fair? Thank youuu [lipstick kiss emoji]”
Ice followed up with a sweet photo of the two together at the Vanity Fair Oscar’s Party that March, captioned “de lo mio” with a kiss emoji and a Dominican flag emoji.
Cardi quickly reposted with three heart emojis in blue, white, and red—the colors of the Dominican flag. For anyone watching closely, the exchange signaled that whatever tension lingered between Cardi B and Ice Spice had been squashed with a show of unity.
Ice Spice’s album included the track “BB Belt” featuring Central Cee—and that’s where many believe the tension with Cardi began.
On the record, Ice spits:
“This one bitch is built like an ant / Crashouts and they goin’ on rants / Cash cow, I be gettin’ them bands / Bitches switching but they wasn’t trans.”
Later in the song, she ups the ante with:
“Think she pretty but changin’ her face / Fallin’ behind, like, bitch, pick up your pace. / It was funny till I took her place / Her man callin’, but I be like ‘Who dis?’ / I’m a switchy bitch, I really do this (damn).”
On paper, the lines could be seen as typical rap bravado—flexing dominance without naming names. But Cardi seemed to take the bars personally, firing off a series of pointed posts on X soon after.
“These bitches have absolutely lost their mind…I’m getting all my lick backs on my album tho …ON EACH ONE OF YOU BITCHES !!!” she wrote.
She followed it with: “These bitches can’t see me in numbers or status y’all had WAY too much time to catch up. Can’t see me in money, can’t see me in real estate, fashion, and CAN’T SEE ME IN PERSON either.”
Cardi capped it off by making clear she’s in her own lane: “I’m not in a rat race with none of you bitches!! And Ima show yall.”
September 16, 2025: Ice Spice shouts out Cardi
In September, Ice Spice sat down with Keke Palmer on her podcast Baby, This is Keke Palmer to discuss her upcoming single, “Baddie Baddie.” When Keke asked if there was a person or moment that inspired her to chase rap seriously, Ice gave credit to Cardi B.
“I feel like Cardi B definitely, like, brought back that like, hope, that like, girls could rap. For a long time, Nicki seemed like so like, unattainable,” she said.
September 19, 2025: Cardi B gets her lick back
As promised, Cardi B funneled her pent-up fury straight into the music, unloading on her tracks “Pretty and Petty” and “Magnet.”
While many of the shots were clearly aimed at long-standing rivals, some bars sparked speculation. On “Magnet,” Cardi seemed to fire back at Ice Spice’s “BB Belt” jab, rapping:
“Slow-face bitch (Bitch), whose spot is you takin’? (Who?) / My spot’s forever’s forever, ho, I’m like a Dalmatian (Who?).”
September 29, 2025: Nicki enters the conversation
Cardi’s new album Am I the Drama? not only delivered a double-platinum milestone but also moved 200K units in its first week, topping the Billboard 200. Social media lit up with praise—something that didn’t sit well with Nicki Minaj.
Fresh off her social media hiatus, Nicki chose Cardi’s tracking week to announce her own new music coming in March 2026. She also hopped online to downplay Cardi’s success, mocking her rhymes and calling her “Barney Dangerous.” Nicki even taunted her for allegedly selling the album for $4.99 on food delivery apps. (She later deleted the posts.)
Cardi wasted no time clapping back: “Damn she was streaming Magnet hard as hell huh?” She continued, “Why you keep bringing up my album?? It’s not the gag that you think it is.. 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… 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 highschool when you came out wtf is you comparing yourself to me for???”
From there, the feud spiraled into AI memes, fertility digs, and nonstop shade. Ice Spice kept her distance but stirred the pot with a single “chuckling emoji” tweet. JT, who was directly targeted on “Magnet,” also jumped in, questioning Cardi’s reported sales numbers.
September 30, 2025:
After the dust settled, in the early hours of the morning, unverified audio surfaced on X of Cardi B yelling at Ice Spice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr., over the phone.
Many believe the clip was recorded a year earlier — reportedly Cardi’s initial reaction to Ice Spice’s controversial bars on “BB Belt.” In the clip, Cardi can be heard demanding clarification about certain lyrics and threatening violence toward Ice Spice and producer RiotUSA: “I’m not Latto! I’mma beat her the fuck up, I’mma knock her the fuck out! I’mma beat her ass, I’mma get Riot beat up by my niggas, y’all gonna see what the fuck is up! Y’all think I’m as pussy as Latto?” She keeps screaming for Ice to get on the line, while the manager says Ice is about to appear at an event at the Empire State Building in New York. “You think I’m Latto? You think I’m Megan?,” Cardi shouts. “I’ll beat you the fuck up! All y’all! I’mma beat her ass, I’mma beat her! Any red carpet, any fuckin’ show I see her at, any fuckin’ event, I’mma fuckin beat her, I’m going in dat mouth.”
At 3:44AM, Ice Spice teased a possible new song with the caption “#prettyprivilege.” On the snippet she raps: “Double park the Escalade, I’m poppin’ out, can’t see my lace. / She might talk shit on the ‘gram, but she won’t talk it to my face,” before adding, “Chauffeur, I got a driver. I don’t gotta touch the brakes. / Poser, she hear my song and copy everything I say. / Like what the fuck? These bitches dirt, just be yourself, this shit could work. / Pretty privilege, that’s a perk / I can’t help it, I’m a flirt. / Fine shyt, that’s a fact. / From the front, you see the back. / PR said no clapping back. Ahhhh…”
Wonder who that’s aimed at?
Appearing to confirm the leak’s authenticity, Cardi took to X later to clear the air about Latto — who appears on Cardi’s remix to “ErrTime.” She wrote that she was ranting in the moment but made it clear she supports Latto: “I was ranting and hot at the moment but I fck with Latto HEAVY!! I respect everything about her including her team thats so sweet.. AND NOPE! I’m not too prideful to apologize to somebody I really respect so this is my public apology and now ima privately buy her a bag.”
Cardi then pointed fingers at Ice Spice’s manager, James, the other voice on the leaked call. “But wait James… cuz I just know you didn’t only record the beginning of that conversation.. Go ahead baby post the whole 11 minute convo when Ice Spice said she was in her feelings all because I said Sexyy deserved a BET Award and she had just won some iHeart award I wasn’t even thinking about.. POST IT ALL!!! You came to bang right???”
Cardi also denied being the source of the leak: “I was in my bedroom by myself.. I just sound more higher cuz not only was I louder but it was more echo because it’s bigger…everything louder in there.”
Rosemond Jr. quote-tweeted Cardi, insisting he didn’t record or leak the call. “I did not record or leak that call. You hear me on speaker w/ ur manager Tubby who called me with you on three way & u can literally hear that in the clip. The audio didn’t come from me. I respect private conversations & I’m not in the business of leaking anything. @iamcardib”
Cardi shot back: “James be foreal and be a man. I was in my bedroom by myself… it was only you me and tubby on the call.. So you saying it was tubby??… Your artist put a laughing emoji then leaked the convo then posted a trash ass clip of her song in less than a hour…”
Rosemond Jr. accused Cardi of using the drama to boost album sales. Cardi fired back: “Your artist new song is not charting anywhere.. What can you possibly do for my rollout?? The gaslighting is insane.”
As of now, Ice Spice has not publicly responded to the accusations.
