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Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift have exchanged
a series of barbed messages via Twitter following the recent nominations for the
MTV VMAs.
The nominations for MTV’s Video Music Awards 2015 were unveiled on
Tuesday (July 21), with Swift racking up the highest number of nominations. The
singer is nominated for nine awards at this year's ceremony.
However, following
the news, rapper/singer Minaj seemingly took offence at the omission of her
clips for 'Anaconda' and 'Feeling Myself' from the Video Of The Year shortlist.
Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars are all
nominated alongside Swift in the Video Of The Year category.
Taking to Twitter,
Minaj initially wrote: "Hey guys @MTV thank you for my nominations. Did Feeling
Myself miss the deadline or...?", continuing: "If I was a different "kind" of
artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as
well".
The star continued to write: "When the "other" girls drop a video that
breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination", a tweet that
Taylor Swift deemed to be about her. Swift replied: "I've done nothing but love
& support you.
It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of
the men took your slot.." Getty Minaj responded to deny claims that the tweets
were a swipe at Swift, adding: "Didn't say a word about u. I love u just as
much. But u should speak on this".
With Swift inviting Minaj to come onstage
with her if she wins the award, Minaj later retweeted a fan's post that called
for Swift to "stop using "support all girls" as an excuse to not be critical of
racist media that benefits and glorifies you".
Minaj also criticised the media's
allegedly contrasting coverage of Swift's Spotify boycott and her support of
Tidal, writing: "I'm so glad u guys get to see how this stuff works. Taylor took
her music off spotify and was applauded. We launched Tidal & were dragged."
Swift has not yet responded to the later tweets.
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