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Rap has given us some of music’s greatest love songs, but it’s also produced some of celebrity culture’s ugliest breakups.

Hip-hop couples rarely split quietly. When the relationship ends, the diss tracks, subliminal tweets, and courtroom filings tend to follow, turning a private breakup into a running public feud that can stretch for years. A new Nicki Swift breakdown, “The Most Brutal Hip-Hop Couple Breakups,” runs through nine of the genre’s messiest splits, from custody battles to leaked surveillance footage.

• Nas and Kelis married in 2005; Kelis filed for divorce in 2009 while seven months pregnant, setting off a fight over spousal support, custody, and later abuse allegations.
• Ciara filed a $15 million defamation and slander lawsuit against Future in 2016, two years after their 2014 split over infidelity allegations following the birth of their son.
• Saweetie and Quavo announced their breakup in March 2021 after nearly three years together, following leaked 2020 surveillance footage showing a physical altercation in an elevator.

Kanye West, Amber Rose, and Nas and Kelis

Kanye West and Amber Rose dated from 2008 to 2010, and the fallout outlasted the relationship itself by years. West later claimed publicly that he needed “thirty showers” after their breakup, a line that kept the feud alive well past its expiration date, while Rose repeatedly clapped back at West and criticized his subsequent relationships in interviews and on social media.

Nas and Kelis married in 2005, and the marriage collapsed fast. Kelis filed for divorce in 2009 while seven months pregnant, and what followed was a bitter legal battle over spousal support and custody of their son. Kelis later added abuse allegations against Nas to the mix, turning a divorce filing into a years-long public dispute that didn’t get resolved quietly.

Future and Ciara’s $15 Million Fight

Future and Ciara split in 2014 after allegations of infidelity surfaced shortly after the couple welcomed a son together. What started as a breakup escalated into a protracted custody fight, and by 2016 Ciara had filed a $15 million defamation and slander lawsuit against Future over his public comments disparaging her.

Ciara’s $15 million lawsuit accused Future of publicly disparaging her — turning a custody dispute into a courtroom fight over what he’d said about her, not just what he’d done.

Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill’s Public Fallout

Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill dated for two years before officially calling it quits in early January 2017. Reports pointed to a major blowup in Turks and Caicos as the breaking point, and once the relationship ended, the two didn’t exactly go their separate ways quietly — subliminal posts and studio disses followed on both sides, the kind of scorched-earth aftermath Minaj has weathered with other feuds, as detailed in the rundown of people Nicki Minaj should be most afraid of.

Saweetie and Quavo, Iggy Azalea and Playboi Carti

Saweetie and Quavo announced their split in March 2021 after almost three years together. The breakup was already messy with allegations of unfaithfulness on both sides, but it got worse when 2020 surveillance footage leaked showing a physical altercation between the two in an elevator.

Iggy Azalea and Playboi Carti broke up in late 2020, not long after welcoming their son together. Azalea didn’t stay quiet about it — she publicly called out Carti on social media for absentee parenting and infidelity, laying out her grievances for fans rather than letting the split fade quietly.

Tyga and Blac Chyna, YG and Kehlani, Big Sean and Naya Rivera

Tyga and Blac Chyna split in 2014, but the drama had real staying power thanks to Tyga’s subsequent relationship with Kylie Jenner and Chyna’s relationship with Rob Kardashian — a tangle that kept both exes in tabloid rotation for years, similar to how friendships-turned-feuds tend to play out once new relationships enter the picture.

YG and Kehlani had an on-and-off relationship that finally imploded in 2019 and 2020 amid public cheating rumors. Big Sean and Naya Rivera called off their engagement in April 2014 amid mutual accusations, with both sides taking shots at each other through diss tracks rather than a clean, quiet break.

Of the nine splits the video runs through, Ciara’s $15 million lawsuit against Future is the one that actually went to court over what got said, not just what happened — and by the time Saweetie and Quavo’s elevator footage surfaced in 2021, hip-hop fans had already seen this movie enough times to know the subliminals were coming next.