Rick Ross’s Slut-Shaming of Nicki Minaj

In 2016, rapper Beanie Sigel accused Nicki of being behind Meek Mill and Drake’s infamous beef, theorizing, “In my point of view? You was laying in the bed one night, you rolled over and you looked at her and you asked her, ‘You fuck that nigga?’ And she ain’t answer you in the way you wanted to.” In citing exactly zero sources, Sigel came across as little more than a Nicki Minaj-Meek Mill fan fiction writer. Of course, as a fellow Philadelphia rapper, his working hypothesis quickly went viral.

Putting aside the fact that Meek and Beanie have their own complicated Philly frenemy thing going on, Sigel’s statement says a whole lot about how an overtly sexual woman is perceived in the hip-hop community. While Nicki Minaj has gotten a good deal of praise for exerting her sexual autonomy—and has certainly praised herself for it—she’s also become a go-to target for body-shaming and slut-shaming. Making fun of Minaj’s body and mocking her promiscuity were the main two components of “ShETHER”—well, that and a whole lot of threats to do bodily harm to Barbie. Calling out these insults and accusations as misogynistic is a no-brainer. After all, no male rapper would be accused of sleeping with every single sexy lady he danced with in a music video—and if he did sleep with them, he wouldn’t be shamed for it.

Drake and Nicki had worked together long before Meek Mill was in the picture. So while Meek may have felt threatened by the long hours Nicki was putting in with her Canadian collaborator, he has no one to blame but himself for the Twitter tantrum that subsequently turned into a beef bloodbath. Meek might have embarrassed himself when he went after Drake (edit: he definitely embarrassed himself), but letting his ex be labeled as an untrustworthy, slutty catalyst is an equally bad look.

Accusations of dishonesty are particularly rich coming from Rick Ross, too. When he’s not badmouthing his boy’s ex, Ross has repeatedly been called out for lying in his rhymes. To hear other rappers tell it, Ross isn’t as hard as he presents himself.

In 2011, Ice-T insisted that, “Rick Ross stole a nigga’s name,” referring to the drug kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross, adding, “He thinks he’s [Freeway] Rick Ross, he thinks he’s Larry Hoover, he thinks he’s Big Meech, he thinks he’s MC Hammer, he thinks he’s Tupac. Like, who the fuck are you really, dude?” In 2015, 50 Cent picked up where Ice-T left off, Instagramming a photo of Ross’s past life before he made it big, captioned, “A correctional officer who raps like a drug dealer till he believes it.” Party rockers LMFAO also reportedly called Rick Ross a “fake thug,” but we don’t really need to talk about that. Nicki Minaj may be guilty of trusting the wrong plastic surgeon, but she doesn’t seem half as untrustworthy as the rapper who allegedly stole a criminal’s name for street cred.

Article Appeared @http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/18/the-slut-shaming-of-nicki-minaj.html

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