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If you remember Miley twerking or Kanye’s mic-snatching, you’ll know music awards can get chaotic.

Like on Tuesday, when singer Taylor Swift took a Twitter dig at hip-hop queen Nicki Minaj and the Internet erupted into a sprawling conversation about race and gender.

And then Kim Kardashian got involved. Stay with us

‘Black women are rarely rewarded’

It started when Minaj took to her keyboard to vent after one of her biggest hits wasn’t nominated for video of the year for the MTV Video Music Awards.

Mind you, this isn’t any old clip. “Anaconda,” an uproarious, raunchy twist on pop culture portrayals of curvy black women, received 19.6 million clicks in its first 24 hours, a music video record at the time.

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source: CNN.com

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