Miley Cyrus didn't hold back saying how she really felt about Nicki Minaj.
Last month, Minaj went on a Twitter rant about how "Anaconda" was snubbed for a Video of the Year nomination at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, as well as her and Beyonce's song "Feeling Myself."
"If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year," she tweeted.
"If I was a different 'kind' of artist, 'Anaconda' would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well."
She also accused the VMAs of body shaming, posting that "black women influence pop culture so much but are rarely rewarded for it."
Cyrus - who will be hosting the VMA's said that Minaj went about this all wrong.
"If you want to make it about race, there’s a way you could do that. But don’t make it just about yourself," the 22-year-old singer said.
"Say: 'This is the reason why I think it’s important to be nominated. There’s girls everywhere with this body type.'"
"You made it about you. Not to sound like a b**ch, but that’s like, 'Eh, I didn’t get my VMA.'" Cyrus claims that Minaj lost focus of the issue at hand.
Whn Minaj started her VMA Twitter rant, Taylor Swift has responded by tweeting "I've done nothing but love and support you. It's unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot."
Swift later apologized to Minaj, saying she "missed the point" of the tweets -- but Cyrus still isn't supporting the "Starships" hitmaker.
She even questioned Minaj's character.
"What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind. It’s not very polite. I think there’s a way you speak to people with openness and love," Cyrus say.
"You don’t have to start this pop star against pop star war. It became Nicki Minaj and Taylor in a fight, so now the story isn’t even on what you wanted it to be about."
The former Hannah Montana star also took notice of what people may think about her speaking out on the subject.
"I know you can make it seem like, 'Oh I just don’t understand because I’m a white pop star,'" she said.
"I know the statistics. I know what’s going on in the world. But to be honest, I don’t think MTV did that on purpose."
Meanwhile, Cyrus also admitted that she's not too familiar with the nominees' music. "I like what Kendrick [Lamar] does. I don’t really know many of these," she confessed.
"I don’t really listen to this music. I’m probably the most disconnected host in history. I don’t have TV. I have Apple TV. I’m so the 22-year-old that’s like, 'Who’s TV?'"
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