Cardi B recently told Mariah Carey that in the Rap game, she believes that it’s more difficult for women to navigate their careers because they’re often unduly pitted against one another. Competition in Hip Hop is as old as the genre itself as DJ battles, Battle Rap, and diss tracks have propelled the culture, but some have complained that music executives, and other artists, often manufacture tension in order to boost sales. On a recent episode of Angela Scanlon’s Thanks A Million podcast, a British rapper named Lady Leshurr revealed that she was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars to diss Nicki Minaj on a track, but in the end, she turned it down.

“I’ve always gone with how I feel here. There’s only one time I didn’t go with what was in my belly and it didn’t go well at all. It was really, really disastrous, so I’ve learned from my mistakes,” said Lady Leshurr. “It’s all about integrity. Don’t just take things bcause it looks good right now. What is it gonna look like in five years to come? Ten years to come? I felt specific deals that was offered to me, they would have fizzled out within two years.”