This whole Remy Ma and Papoose mess? Yeah, that's been messy. Two 40-something grown adults beefing online in a way that makes it seem like they just discovered Instagram Live. I kept my mouth shut because the unfolding of it all was like watching your cool aunt and uncle brawl in front of everyone at the cookout. You want to wade in but do not want to be caught in the crossfire of a flying potato salad.
Enter Claressa Shields, The champ, The GWOAT, and now, it seems, the woman fully committed to Papoose. She wants babies, a future, and a white picket fence with championship belts. But this isn't just a whirlwind romance; this is a category-five hurricane ripping through some old Hip-Hop scars.
And Claressa, never one to be bashful, said she slid into Nicki Minaj's DMs. The one who Remy Ma metaphorically disemboweled in the 'SHEther,' a diss track so murderous it should have come with a parental advisory and a trigger warning. "wish a nigga would have sent all the killers at your head," she wrote in a caption to her Instagram video, referring to the fact that Remy was taking no prisoners on the record. She hit some bars on Nicki that had people gasping as prayers of confessions on the IG scroll, but it was lyrical warfare. Some may also remember the murmurs that Papoose, Remy's husband, was the ghost behind the ghostwriting. He's said he wrote 90% of her verses, and plenty suspect he was the brains behind that bombshell of a diss.
If Claressa came in looking to forge some bridges, she'd probably set the first one on fire. And even if her DM was sent in a spirit of reconciliation, it's challenging to see Nicki dismissing the likelihood that the man she'd sooner not even name around would be the key player in delivering one of the most brutal slights in recent rap history.
We can't forget that Remy and Nicki's beef wasn't just about music but was personal. And though Nicki's moved on in many respects, she is also a woman who can keep receipts and hold grudges like a vault.
Claressa's a champ in the ring, not the booth. Perhaps she wasn't entirely aware of the drama or didn't consider it essential. But in hip-hop, history reverberates, and this one still has listeners holding their ears precisely as it did 30 years ago.
So, is Nicki going to take the invitation? Highly doubtful. Will Claressa figure out that mixing it up in rap beef is just as harrowing as stepping into the ring? Probably. This ain't the final round of the Remy-Papoose soap opera.
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