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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 9, 2017 6:44 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 9, 2017 6:44 PM UTC Lest you think that [Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/4300095/nicki-minaj-time-100-video/) and [Remy Ma’s heated feud](http://time.com/4684737/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-rap-feud/) was cooling down, the Queens rapper has come out with a blistering new verse that unapologetically takes shots at Remy. [2 Chainz](http://time.com/3686571/2-chainz-mayor-college-park/)‘s track “Realize” off his forthcoming _Pretty Girls Like Trap Music_ featuring Minaj was previewed at a recent party and Minaj’s verse doesn’t shy away from addressing the beef between the two femcees, even going so far as to insinuate that Remy’s husband Papoose wrote the inflammatory “Shether” diss track. Lyrics like “Papoose on the ‘Ether’ record / But I broke Aretha record/Say this is chess not checkers/You can not check the checkers/Did Nas clear that ‘Ether’ record” pack a punch, with Nicki asserting her dominance as a charting musician and pointing to her own chummy relationship with her fellow Queens native, Nas. Remy, for her part, [released a remix of Future’s “Mask Off”](https://soundcloud.com/remymamusic/mask-off-remy-ma) on Thursday that had the Bronx rapper warning that she would “blast off” on any female rapper. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4813059/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-2-chainz-realize/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4813059/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-2-chainz-realize/"},"headline":"Nicki Minaj Reignites Remy Ma Beef With Her Latest Rap","datePublished":"2017-06-09T18:44:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:22.407Z","description":"Shots fired","url":"https://time.com/4813059/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-2-chainz-realize/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Nicki Minaj"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4813059/nicki-minaj-remy-ma-2-chainz-realize/","name":"Nicki Minaj Reignites Remy Ma Beef With Her Latest Rap"}}]}] ```