Nicki Minaj and SZA are in the middle of a public twitter feud, and if you are in a state of confusion, here's the general breakdown: On Tuesday, Nicki hopped online and seemingly took a swipe at Top Dawg Entertainment president Terrence Henderson (who manages SZA).

As fans scramble to piece together the root of the drama, TDE's Punch offers insight into SZA and Nicki Minaj’s beef.

The beef started with SZA’s manager, Punch TDE (TDE stands for Top Dawg Entertainment, an independent record label), posting two words: “Broken Barbies,” the name of a song he was promoting by the artist iAMLYRIC. The song is linked underneath his post. After seeing the post, Nicki Minaj took it as shade towards her and responded with:

The Queens, N.Y., hitmaker blasted SZA’s ability as an artist and how “the music business wouldn’t even miss” her. Minaj went on to tout her accolades when compared to the success that the TDE singer has enjoyed in her career thus far.

This enraged Nicki Minaj, who then targeted the Twitter beef with SZA directly at the latter and attacked her appearance by saying “Go draw your freckles back on bookie.” She then further tweeted “B*tch looking & sounding like she got stung by a f*cking bee. Dot dot dot *Draws on my fake freckles.*”

Nicki Minaj is letting her 'Twitter fingers' do the talking. The rapper lashed out at SZA on X and it all began with the Mercury retrograde.

SZA, a TDE artist, posted a vague message about Mercury retrograde and warned "don’t take the bait ," which Minaj took as a subtle dig. Minaj fired back with a sharp post, bringing the argument into the public eye. She said,