Top 10 Celebs Who Throw the Most Shade
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#10: Cher
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In 2018 on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” Cher reminded people just how shady she can be; particularly as it relates to her ongoing feud with Madonna. Despite many assuming that the feud was dead and buried, Cher infused it with new life when she responded to the question "Name three celebrities you'd want to do a duet with” by saying “Adele, Pink and...uh, um—not Madonna." The spat goes back decades, with Cher often lambasting Madonna not for her singing ability or business acumen, but simply because “She's...mean.” She even called her a particularly nasty four-letter word that starts with “c”... and it wasn't “cute”.
#9 NeNe Leakes
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Anyone who’s watched “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” knows just how shady NeNe Leakes can be. Her feud with castmate Kim Zolciak-Biermann is the stuff of reality TV legend. Who could forget the time she told her to “Close your legs to married men” during a reunion episode? Or the time the two women got into a major fight on a tour bus, with Leakes quipping “You’re second best and you know it”. To make matters worse Leakes has also gotten into it with Zolciak-Biermann’s daughter Brielle. Sometimes things can get so shady you don’t even know how you got in the dark in the first place!
#8: Kim Kardashian
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In a family filled with shady characters Kim is unquestionably the shadiest of them all. KK has gotten into numerous feuds over the years, and famously sent perfume to a list of people she dubbed “haters” in early 2018. Some of the people who have been on that list at one point or another include Taylor Swift, Piers Morgan, Pink, and actress Chloë Grace Moretz. The latter got into it with the Kardashian sister after she criticized Kim for posting a nude selfie on Instagram. Kim clapped back by tweeting "Let's all welcome @ChloeGMoretz to Twitter, since no one knows who she is...your nylon cover is cute boo." Now that is some grade-A shade right there!
#7: Taylor Swift
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Who’d have thought that Kanye West interrupting T-Swizzle’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Award’s would spark years of shade from the pop princess? It may have taken Swift a few years to properly address West’s infamous disruption in a thinly veiled 2016 Grammy speech, but she got it done. Of course, she wouldn’t be on our list if that was her only shady moment. The singer famously got into it with Katy Perry over the poaching of tour dancers and is notorious for writing scathing breakup ballads for the guys that do her wrong. Hadn’t those guys ever heard that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”?
#6: Azealia Banks
Some people avoid drama like the plague, while others invite it into their homes with open arms. We believe Azealia Banks falls into the latter category. Don’t believe us? Just listen to the laundry list of feuds she’s engaged in over the years. In 2015 she went after Eminem for making light of domestic violence. That same year she also ripped into Kendrick Lamar for comments she perceived as “dumb”. She clapped back at A$AP Rocky for giving makeup advice to dark skinned women. She got into an extremely heated Twitter fight with Zayn Malik in which she insulted his ethnicity and another with Rita Ora over shoes of all things. Seriously, we could keep going, the list is endless.
#5: Rihanna
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RiRi doesn’t care if you’re a journalist, a music legend, or Amanda Bynes; she’s clapping back at everyone and anyone who gives her grief. She famously got into a feud with TLC after they ripped her provocative way of dressing, responding to them on Twitter and briefly changing her header to a picture of two of its members posing topless. When fellow pop star Ciara called her out for being rude Rihanna responded on Twitter with the supremely sarcastic comment, “My bad Ci, did I forget 2 tip u?#howrudeofme." Moral of the story: don’t start a fight with Rihanna if you aren’t prepared to finish it.
#4: Amber Rose
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This model and actress is no stranger when it comes to throwing shade at A-list celebs. She didn’t hold back when rapper Tyga broke up with her best friend Black Chyna and started dating a teenage Kylie Jenner, quipping that “Kylie's a baby”. It didn’t take long for the feud to grow and soon it included Rose’s former boyfriend Kanye West, his wife Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloé. Rose clapped back at one of Khloé’s tweets by bringing up Kim K’s sex tape, which prompted Kanye West to rip into her for being a stripper. Suffice it to say Rose ain’t afraid to play in the shade!
#3: Elton John
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Take note: never piss off Elton John. The Rocket Man famously ripped Madonna at the 2004 Q Awards for lip syncing, telling the audience that he thought anyone who lip-syncs on stage “should be shot.” Damn that’s harsh! Of course, John wasn’t even close to finished with the “Material Girl”. A few years later he was back to his shady ways, calling Madonna’s tour a “disaster” and quipping that when she danced, she looked like a “fairground stripper”. To be fair he did also say she was a great pop singer. But it’s easy to see why that wasn’t the headline. The two have since made amends…somehow.
#2: Wendy Williams
Some people learn to throw shade, while others, such as talk show host Wendy Williams, are born with a shadiness gland next to their medulla oblongata. Williams has been getting into it with celebrities and the like for years, first as a radio DJ and later on her eponymous daytime talk show. She famously cast shade upon Beyoncé back in 2012 when she quipped that Bey sounded “like she has a fifth-grade education.” In 2015 she claimed that Ariana Grande looked like a 12-year-old, coldly remarking, “I don't look at her as, like, a woman." Keep in mind these are only some of her most famous spats. With Williams, the shade never stops. Before we unveil our top pick, here are some honorable mentions: Sam Smith Katy Perry Justin Bieber
#1: Nicki Minaj
If throwing shade were an Olympic event Nicki Minaj would have multiple gold medals, and several podium finishes. The rapper has beefed with everyone from Taylor Swift to Mariah Carey, and memorably got into it with the latter when they both served as judges on “American Idol”. Who could forget the time she ripped Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards? Or when she called out Iggy Azalea during a speech at the 2014 BET Awards. Even music legends like Lil Kim and Remy Ma aren’t safe from her shadiness, with Minaj having dropped numerous diss tracks slamming the artists. We feel confident when we say: all hail the Queen of Shade!
