It seems Nicky Minaj paid a tribute to Lil Kim’s 1999 MTV VMAs look, in which he wore a revealing jacket, with one of her breasts fully exposed, covered only by a paste-on.
Minaj wore a balck version of Kim’s dress, complete with the pasty for the New York Fashion Week. She uploaded the looks on her instagram account:
However, she also shared a post claiming her inspiration for her dress is actually a Picasso painting.
There has been repeated news of Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj having a little bit of a cold war, but neither have spoken about it explicitly. In a 2010 interview , Kim had said, “I never had a problem with her, I was always nice with her — always. She was a very obnoxious person… She was always throwing shots… Every single record she made, she was coming at me.”