Last night, Nicki Minaj won the BET Award for Best Female Hip-Hop artist for the fifth year in a row. This is the first year that Minaj seemingly had any competition for the award with Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" blowing up and Forbes claiming she is running hip-hop.
Minaj addressed her competition in the nearly four-minute-long acceptance speech, presumably throwing shade at Azalea, who is widely rumored to use ghostwriters on her verses, saying, "What I want the world to know about Nicki Minaj is when you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it." She smirked, clarifying she meant no offense. "No, no, no shade, no, no, no shade." She later added, "I hope and pray that BET continues to honor authenticity."
This isn't the first time the two rappers have had beef over the BET Awards. Back in 2010 (before she was famous), Azalea posted a tweet dissing Minaj for not performing the BET Awards live. The tweet resurfaced last year, and Minaj didn't take kindly to it when she saw it.
Minaj also took time in her speech to tell the crowd of a recent near-death experience that forced her to reevaluate her views on life.
"The other day, literally I didn't tell anybody this, I really thought I was about to die. Like, I was saying my prayers to die. And I didn't even want to call the ambulance because I thought, 'Well if I call the ambulance, it's going to be on TMZ .And I would rather sit there and die," she said. "And it made me realize I don't care what anybody got to say. I'm going to do me."
Minaj performed her latest single, "Pills N Potions," and also won best group with her Young Money bandmates, including Lil Wayne and Drake.
Watch the replay over at Gawker (the YouTube version has been taken down). What do you think of Minaj's speech? Let us know in the comments section below!
