Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, JT: the biggest rap beefs of October 2025

Forget spooky season, October was fighting season.

In an unexpected turn of events, October has been a month of back-to-back beef. Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, JT, Tyla, Ice Spice, fakemink, and Nettspend have all found themselves wrapped up in verbal (and cold) wars online this month, providing a lot of shameful entertainment for nosy people online (guilty) and gossip tabloids.

The month of mayhem kicked off at the tail end of September, when Nicki Minaj took a jab at the $4.99 discount for Cardi B’s new album Am I the Drama?, waking from the dead an ancient beef between the two. Their days-long feud saw the two New York natives spewing insults about each other and ultimately their partners and children as they engaged in one of the messiest public beefs this year. That seemed to open the flood gates as a slew of other rappers began going full-on nuclear in their quest to call out shady disses, stolen songs, and false allegiances on social media.

A lot has gone down and we have the TL;DR on it all, below.

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj reignited their years-long feud on X

It was the feud heard around the world. If you have a life and were not online this month, count yourself lucky for not witnessing Cardi B and Nicki Minaj re-igniting their years-long feud at the top of the month.

In case you forgot, the New York City-born rappers first argued about Minaj’s verse on the 2017 Migos track “MotorSport.” The two reportedly resolved their issues not long after at the Met Gala, but as Cardi once said, “If a girl have beef with me, she gon’ have beef with me forever.”

On September 29, Cardi B made good on that promise after Minaj indirectly posted on X about the promotional price of Cardi’s latest album, Am I the Drama?, then, turned lyrics to Cardi’s song “Magnet” into a diss. (“Abcdefgeeeeeeee,” Minaj tweeted. “SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY.” This is just one of several tweets.)

Cardi then piped up to defend herself calling Minaj “Cocaine Barbie,” and doing her own version of “Magnet” lyrics, this time to reference Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, who’s currently serving time after being found guilty of raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Long story short: things continued to escalate and brought about such ephemera like AI images of Cardi as “Barney” and several disturbing tweets from both rappers about the others’ children.

By October 2, Minaj and Cardi shared backhanded apologies to each other’s children. Thankfully after that, something, God or shame, finally compelled them both to end things.

A brief Cardi B and Ice Spice skirmish

In the middle of her very-public fight with Minaj, Cardi also dealt with the fallout of a leaked phone call she allegedly had with Ice Spice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr. in which someone that sounds like Cardi can be heard shouting “I’ma beat her the fuck up! I’ma knock her the fuck out!” (“Her” being Ice Spice.) Nothing seemed to really come of that. Ice Spice hasn’t made any public responses to the call or to Cardi B’s Am I The Drama? diss track “Magnet,” which is rumored to contain shots at the “BB Belt” rapper.

JT vs. Cardi’s sister Hennessy Carolina

Cardi B wasn’t the only Almánzar sister feuding online in October. Her sister, Hennessy Carolina, clashed with JT on September 29 (yes, the same day as Minaj’s “$4.99” jab).

The City Girls rapper accused Cardi of rigging album sales and “begging” fans for their support. “Nobody bought it…Oh my God, what a flop,” she said in a Spaces chat of Cardi’s album, which fans believe include a diss track about JT on the song “Magnet.” She then went after the Bronx rapper’s sister calling her a “tired, dirty-a** b**ch,” and comparing their plastic surgery procedures. Finally, she also brought race into the argument by calling Caroline “Spanish.”

That was enough to bring Hennessy out, who asked on X, “What is your obsession with race?” and suggested that JT’s man is cheating on her. While the drama between the two has died down, it doesn’t seem either has posted an apology. And as of press time, JT has also deleted the majority of her X posts.

Nettspend and fakemink fall out

Nettspend and fakemink are two enigmatic, Gen Z rappers and just like themselves, the details of their beef are just as elusive. As rising stars in the underground rap scene, they sent both of their fan bases into a tizzy on and around October 3, when fans discovered the two rappers had unfollowed each other on Instagram. They previously seemed to be on good terms and even met up during NYFW in September and performed a show together.

Still, the catalyst for what prompted their friendship breakup remains foggy. fakemink cryptically posted an IG story that said, “Showing fake love won’t get you no where in this world boy,” which fans interpreted to be a subtweet at Nett. Nett hasn’t responded or posted anything at all. It’s safe to say that the song collabs they also teased won’t be seeing the light of day.

 

Yung Miami and Tyla start new feud

On October 16, the other half of City Girls, Yung Miami, birthed a new feud when she accused an unnamed artist for stealing her unreleased track “Take Me to Chanel,” a “bad bitch anthem” that Miami claimed she’d been tweeting about since last year, and was going to include on her upcoming debut album. Fans online quickly assumed that she was talking about Tyla who was teasing the release of her new single called “Chanel,” slated to drop on October 24.

“This girl really ran off with my song and ion know how to feel about it mind you I played this song for this girl,” Yung Miami wrote on X, before adding, “Like…. Bitch I’m confused!” Later, she wrote, “Take me to Chanel > put me in Chanel,” lyrics that indeed seemed to reference Tyla’s snippet of her song, which she’d teased on Instagram, that included the lyrics: “Say you love me/Put me in Chanel.”

Someone online pointed out that Yung Miami had been slow to release her version of the song, to which she replied, “Don’t matter it’s my mf song!!!” The rapper double-downed on the claim that she “played” Tyla the track, and then directly named her in the controversy: “PSA – It is Tyla! She has a new song called Chanel. The chorus is ‘Put me in Chanel, Put me in Chanel.’”

But the beef seems to be one-sided, as Tyla has yet to address the claims. In Tyla’s defense, she serves as a brand ambassador for Chanel so whether she actually stole the song from Yung Miami is up for debate until its release.