Nicki Minaj Fires Off On TMZ Founder, Harvey Levin: ‘Your Time Is Up’

While TMZ is known for dishing the hottest celebrity gossip, this time, its founder, Harvey Levin, is in the hot seat. According to Nicki Minaj, Levin’s “time is almost up.” Earlier this week, during a recent TMZ livestream, as Harvey and the team reported on the online feud between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, Nicki caught wind of some of the outlet’s coverage of the beef and didn’t appear to be a fan. “Harvey, your time is up,” she wrote in an X (formerly Twitter) post on Oct.1. She also came after executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere, whom she referred to as “Dred lock Rasta.”

Always looking to catch a viral moment, Levin sent a post asking if Nicki wanted to join the live; however, she wasn’t interested. “Eat sh*t,” she wrote in another post. “You know what you did. Come eat my ass, I’m on my period.” She also followed up that post with a meme of Chuckie and another from Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad series. Levin took the rejection in stride, as the newsroom began to burst with laughter following the brief back-and-forth

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj reignited their long-running feud on Monday, trading shots on X in a heated exchange that reminded fans just how deep their rivalry runs. The two rap titans clashed in real time, swapping insults, parodies, and personal digs that quickly went viral. The drama kicked off when Minaj, 42, tweeted—and then deleted—“$4.99,” a jab at the promotional price of Cardi B’s new album Am I the Drama?.

She didn’t stop there, calling Cardi “Barney Dangerous” and flipping lyrics from the Bronx rapper’s track “Magnet” into mocking rhymes. “Abcdefgeeeeeeee,” Minaj tweeted. “SUR GER REE TO LOOK LIKE MEEEEEE / tell the rat & tell J ZEEEEEE / Rico Fraud & PERJURY.” She pushed the attack further with, “Fallin off the charts wit a big bellyyyy,” referencing Cardi’s pregnancy. To drive her point home, Minaj posted an AI-generated image of Cardi dressed as Barney, accusing her of rapping like the purple dinosaur.