This isn't the first time Minaj has spoken out against the lack of inclusivity in industries she's a part of. In July 2015, she called out the MTV VMAs, tweeting : "If I was a different "kind" of artist, Anaconda would be nominated for best choreo and vid of the year as well," and “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year.” While Taylor Swift took Minaj's statement as a attack, she was actually highlighting the award show's problem with white feminism. In an interview with The New York Times , she said: "The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad. If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that."