Lil Yachty Denies Asking Drake To Squash Nicki Minaj Beef After Yachty's Support Of Cardi B

BY Gabriel Bras Nevares 1219 Views
Link Copied to Clipboard!
lil-yachty-summer-smash-2024-3
BRIDGEVIEW, IL - JUNE 16: Rapper, Lil Yachty, performs during Day 3 of the Summer Smash festival 2024, in SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, IL. (Photo by Brandon Laws/HotNewHipHop)
Yachty regrets showing loyalty to Cardi.

During his new interview with Shannon Sharpe for Club Shay Shay, Lil Yachty revealed that he still regrets backing Cardi B in her Nicki Minaj beef back in 2018. For those unaware, the Atlanta rapper had told BET+ during an interview that he wouldn't collaborate with the Trinidadian femcee due to his bond with her Bronx counterpart. Since then, Nicki gave Yachty the cold shoulder, and in this new conversation with Sharpe, it seems like he regrets how those comments landed with audiences and how it ruined any chances of forming an artistic and personal rapport with the Pink Friday 2 superstar.

"I hate it that I even answered that question, because I kind of just inserted myself in something that had nothing to do with me," Lil Yachty posited. "I respect both of these women, aside from their differences," he added. At the end of the day, the "Lunch Break Freestyle" MC didn't want his praise of Cardi B to indicate a slight against Nicki Minaj, but to this day, Nicki still has him blocked on all social media.

Lil Yachty Speaks On Cardi B, Nicki Minaj & Drake

However, another curious element to this whole story is how Drake plays into it, as the 6ix God is one of Lil Yachty's closest collaborators as of late with a strong Young Money tie to Nicki Minaj. Despite him saying otherwise in a 2021 interview with TMZ, this time around with Shannon Sharpe, Yachty denied that he asked Drizzy for help when it came to mending things with Nicki. "I’ve never even asked him to," he posited, elaborating further on how Nicki intimidates him.

"I was so scared to talk to her, bro,” Lil Yachty revealed concerning Nicki Minaj. “She just glows like a lava lamp. She’s so beautiful, and she just walks around glowing." "Das not even what I said," he had responded to the scandal back in 2018. "… cardi show me too much love 4 me be in the dark about who I side w/. I f**k w nicki doe been did since elementary school.. they just twisted my words." We'll see whether or not Yachty and Nicki can one day bury the hatchet...

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.