Recently Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift got into an epic battle via Twitter over MTV’s Video Music Awards nominations. The particular scuffle was about how Nicki’s "Anaconda" video is not up for The Video of the Year award. Nicki, like most frustrated celebs, took to Twitter to show her feelings towards the nominations. This resulted in a huge Twitter fight between her and Taylor Swift, directly. Which turned into a huge controversial topic about the female body and female empowerment as a whole.

Even Ed Sheeran, Meek Mill and various other celebs got into the heated conversation. Which ultimately caused even more drama.

The news has now died down, and the war is over. Both Minaj and Swift made up via Twitter and over the phone. After all, there were miscommunications from the beginning and both Swift and Minaj are huge female advocates individually.

Minaj kills it on every red carpet and on every stage but she also kills it when speaking to the female population. Minaj is known for her out-of-the-ordinary and hardcore attitude as a female rapper. But most people don’t give Minaj enough credit for being a powerful and independent woman herself. She tells her fans to take control over their lives and to believe in themselves completely.

Here are eight times Nicki has slayed being an advocate for the empowerment of women as a whole.