Nicki Minaj appears to diss Kanye West during festival appearance: “We don’t fuck with clowns”

nme.com:

Nicki Minaj has seemingly taken aim at Kanye West during her performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans over the weekend.The performance, which took place on Friday night (July 1), was Minaj’s first in-person live performance in around three years.

A portion of the set was dedicated to a medley of Minaj’s early guest verses that originally saw the rise in her profile – including Young Money’s ‘Bedrock’ and Drake‘s ‘Make Me Proud’.

When her verse from West’s 2010 single ‘Monster’ was queued up, however, Minaj cut it short.“We don’t fuck with clowns,” she said following the DJ stopping the song, grinning at the audience.

Minaj immediately changed subjects, saying that she wanted to “give a shout-out to New Orleans” instead of performing the song.