5 of the biggest celebrity feuds of 2024, from Taylor Swift vs Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and Nicki Minaj vs Megan Thee Stallion, to Drake vs Kendrick Lamar
Taylor Swift’s beef with Kanye West’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian blew up in 2016, but this year, the ‘Midnights’ artist hit back (again) at the Skims founder – and theirs wasn’t the only reignited star feud
Carpenter later clarified in an interview with Rolling Stone that she was “very, very communicative” with Swift about the situation and that the superstar artist was hugely supportive of her career. That’s not to say the Midnights singer’s feud with the reality TV star is over. We look at their history of being frenemies, as well as four other continuing celebrity battles that have made the news this year.
1. Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian
Swift was swift to condemn the lyrics publicly; and while West said the “Bad Blood” singer had approved them, Swift’s spokesperson refuted this, telling GQ, “Kanye West and Taylor only spoke once on the phone while she was on vacation with her family in January of 2016 and they have never spoken since.”
Kardashian sided with West at the time and retaliated by releasing a purported recording of the phone call between West and Swift, which seemingly proved that Swift had indeed heard – and even approved of – the lyrics.
Swift promptly responded to the emergence of the recording, stating, “While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.” But it was too late to prevent the fallout: social media users quickly turned on the pop star, flooding her Instagram feed with comments and emojis accusing her of being a snake.
Swift managed to reclaim the narrative: snakes have played a major role in her imagery since she released her Reputation album in 2017. But it seems she isn’t quite done with her retaliation: on her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, released this year, the song “Thank You Aimee”, styled “thanK you aIMee” or “thank You aimEe” (notice the capital letters), appears to be a thinly veiled diss track aimed at Kardashian and West.
2. Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion
The lyrics include, “These hos don’t be mad at Megan, these hos mad at Megan’s Law”. Megan’s Law refers to a piece of federal legislation aimed at protecting communities from convicted sex offenders by requiring them to register and making that information public. Petty is a registered sex offender in New York state, having been convicted of rape when he was 15.