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Cardi B has shared her honest feelings about her long-running beef with Nicki Minaj during a heated spat with the Barbz.
The drama began on Thursday (October 3) when the Bronx rap star posted a meme of Whitney Houston on X (formerly Twitter), seemingly in response to claims that she cheated on her estranged husband Offset with an NFL player.
In the brief clip, from Houston’s 2002 interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, the late singer asks the broadcast journalist: “But do you really know? Do you really know?”
An user named @barbieemaffia took issue with the post and implied that Cardi was copying Nicki Minaj, who has long been a devoted fan of Whitney Houston.
“Oh now she wanna post Whitney memes? [crying face emoji],” they wrote.
The “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker swiftly clapped back with proof that she has posted Whitney Houston memes in the past, digging up a screenshot of a post from three years ago.
“You sure bout that?? Now go see if bitches was posting this meme before that date,” she wrote.
Cardi was then accused by another Nicki fan of using the Young Money rapper to “stay relevant,” with the user also ridiculing the mother of three over her relationship troubles with Offset.
In response, Bardi claimed that she has long moved on from her feud with Nicki Minaj and has no interest of reigniting it: “Bitch that beef so stale and dry and do nothing for me …..as fans stop harassing people over dumb shit if y’all don’t want a fuckin respond ….yall all over my quotes over a meme that ain’t had shit to do wit yall.”
The claims at the heart of the back-and-forth were made earlier this week by Akademiks on his Rumble channel.
The controversial media personality said that the former Migos rapper caught his estranged wife with an NFL player, although he didn’t say who.
Akademiks did, however, suggest that the player in question was a wide receiver as he referenced him catching a touchdown.
His comments came after Offset accused Cardi of sleeping with another man while she was pregnant with their third child.
The row started when the “Ric Flair Drip” rapper hopped on Cardi’s Instagram Live and commented: “U fucked with a baby inside tell the truth!!”
The Bronx bombshell did not deny the claims, revealing she began talking to other men in June, weeks before she filed for divorce and roughly three months before she gave birth to their third child.
Cardi also leaked text messages between her and Offset in which he asked her if she “wants him,” to which she replied “no.”
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During a recent appearance on The Leona Graham Podcast, Embrace frontman Danny McNamara looked back on the unusual story behind the band's 2004 single "Gravity," a song that was ultimately handed over to them by Coldplay singer Chris Martin.
"The Gravity story, it all starts on Angelina Jolie's spaceship," McNamara explained. The memorable moment happened around two decades ago in the parking area of a major film studio just outside London. Coldplay had been visiting the set of the sci fi adventure film The Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow when the two musicians found themselves sitting atop a giant replica spacecraft. "Me and Chris from Coldplay, we were sat on this huge mock-up of a spaceship... about the size of about five double-decker buses. It was like gold and green and red, and we were sat on it in the car park in the midday sun playing each other songs on an acoustic guitar."
After McNamara played Martin a new Embrace song called "Ashes," the Coldplay frontman returned the favour by sharing a track that had not yet been released. "He played me 'Gravity.' And I just thought, 'Wow, that's like an amazing song.' It's up there with like 'Fix You' or 'The Scientist.' For me, it's like one of the best ballads they've ever written."
Some time later, McNamara received a surprise phone call from Martin late one evening. Gwyneth Paltrow, who was married to the singer at the time, could be heard encouraging him in the background. "Gwyneth was in the background saying, 'Go on, ask him. Ask him.' So anyway, he says, 'You know Gravity?' And I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Do you want it?'"
At first, McNamara was reluctant to accept the offer because he worried the attention surrounding Martin's involvement might take focus away from Embrace's comeback album, Out of Nothing. "My thought was like, 'I don't want this to be overshadowed by Chris offering us this song,' so initially I was sort of thinking no. But then I thought, 'Hang on a minute. He's the biggest rock star in the world. What are you doing?'" Curious about why Martin was willing to part with the song, he asked him directly and was told, "Well, I think it sounds too much like Embrace for us to use."
The experience only strengthened the admiration McNamara has held for Martin over the years. Rejecting the common perception that the Coldplay star is predictable or ordinary, he described him as one of the most captivating people he has ever encountered. "That guy is one of the most interesting, charismatic and fun to be around people I've ever met, if not the most," McNamara stated. "I've met a lot of people in my life, a lot of people even more famous than him, and he is far and away the most interesting person. Whenever he's there, I just stand back and just like let him shine. I love him to bits."
