Kodak Black has taken shots at Lil Baby and NBA YoungBoy over their decision to wear nail polish.
The Florida rapper took to social media on Wednesday (April 10) to call out some of his fellow rappers for doing what he calls “gay ass shit.”
“We ain’t with none of that Illuminati shit,” he began. “We ain’t with none of that Lil Baby, YoungBoy, all this gay ass shit going on. We ain’t with none of that paint-your-nails shit. We ain’t with none of that fuck shit.
“Don’t ever play with a n-gga with no gay shit, no snitch shit, no fuck shit, no soft shit, no none of that shit. We ain’t with none of that.”
He added: “Stop playing with me. For real, bitch. It’s cold out here.”
NBA YoungBoy appeared to respond to Kodak Black on his Instagram Stories by posting a video of his fingernails, which were painted with upside down crosses.
“I need ’em redone right now, bitch,” he said in the clip. “I love you too, son. I ain’t do you, n-gga. I’m finna go cry.”
YoungBoy previously responded to those criticizing his painted nails during an Instagram Live in November 2022.
“Everybody want to talk about my nails,” he said at the time. “I done fucked them up, huh. You heard me, everybody want to play with the Slime, but it’s all good.
“You know I’m a big troll, as long as I ain’t no bitch troll. You can talk about my nails all you want, bitch. I know somebody who wish they could paint they nails right now.”
Lil Baby, meanwhile, denied painting his nails last month after being called out by Akademiks. The media personality questioned the rapper’s manhood and sexuality after he appeared to be sporting white nail polish in a snippet of a new music video.
“Y’all blogs gotta stop just posting anything!! I ain’t painting my mf nails!! At this point, ya’ll gotta see n-ggas like Akademiks got an agenda!! Miss me with that weird shit!! (No lol),” Baby wrote.
Despite saying he isn’t down with “snitch shit,” Kodak Black came under fire last year when he worked with 6ix9ine on the song “Shaka Laka,” reportedly in exchange for $1 million.
The rainbow-haired rapper infamously testified against former associates in the 2020 Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods racketeering trial, lessening his own sentence.
After facing backlash from other rap figures, most notably Boosie Badazz, Kodak defended the collaboration during an appearance on Drink Champs.
“It was really on some shit like when they first heard about it, I wrote some shit like hell yeah,” he said. “It wasn’t nothing to think about, it wasn’t nothing nobody needed to call and ask should I do this. The fuck?”
He continued: “It ain’t nothing to think about. That’s a M, that’s a M, my man… one song. It’s like, what the fuck, homie? I understand the value of a dollar, the fuck? $100 is still $100. A band is still a band.”
Lizzo has made it clear that she never abandoned her album Love in Real Life.
The “Juice” artist recently responded to rumors that the project had been cancelled after fans expected it to arrive last year. Rather than putting out the album at the time, Lizzo instead released the mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling in June.
During a new conversation with Billboard, the “Truth Hurts” singer explained that the album itself was never scrapped and is still the same body of work she plans to release on June 5 under its new title, B**ch.
“I think the biggest misconception about my album is that I shelved Love in Real Life when I didn't,” she said. “(B**ch) is technically the same album. I just changed the name. The music is the same.”
Lizzo shared that the main difference between the earlier version of the project and the upcoming release was taking away the original title track, which eventually led to the album being renamed.
“When you change the name of something, it changes its destiny,” the singer explained. “Like, when I went from Melissa to Lizzo, it changed my destiny.”
“When this album went from Love in Real Life to Bch, it changed the trajectory of its past,” she continued. “I do think that I feel like I can express myself the way that I want to express myself right now through Bch. I think Love in Real Life was really sombre and a little bit more introspective, and I think B**ch is a little bit more empowered and self actualised and bold.”
Before the newly titled album arrives, Lizzo has already released the singles B**ch and Don’t Make Me Love U.
The artist had previously spoken about stepping away from Love in Real Life during an earlier interview with Vulture, saying the project “just wasn't what I was feeling right now”.
She also mentioned that much of the album had originally been written back in 2022.
“By 2025, I've changed, the world has changed so much, and so much has happened,” she said. “I was like, ‘I need to do s**t differently, and I don't know what it is, but I'm going to just start following my instincts.’”
