Up until now, we all thought Nicki Minaj and Kanye West were friends, or at minimum, cordial with eachother. 

We may have been wrong...

On Friday (7/1), Nicki Minaj performed at Essence Festival which was hosted at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

While performing her song "Monster," which features Kanye West, Nicki cut her performance short, and had some interesting things to say. 

“A monster though! A monster though! But we don’t f*ck with clowns.”

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Some fans online are suggesting that Nicki could be mad at Kanye because he recently collaborated with Cardi B on “Hot Sh*t," or maybe it's because He's played games with their unreleased collab "New Body".

Do you think Nicki was talking about Kanye?