While the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards had its controversial moments, only one or two were unscripted. That includes Nicki Minaj confronting host Miley Cyrus, who had said days prior that she "isn't too kind" for calling MTV racist: "And now, back to ... this bitch that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press. Miley, what's good?"

While the WWE-worthy smackdown seemed scripted to some, Nicki assures that her beef with Miley is real.

‘‘The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls," she says to The New York Times Magazine. "You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad."

"If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that."

Remember, Nicki was arguing that black women are influential in pop culture but aren't rewarded for it. "Anaconda" was nominated for the best hip-hop video VMA but not best video, even though it smashed a VEVO record with 20 million views.

Meanwhile, Miley had criticized Nicki's tone as if that was the real problem: "I think there's a way you speak to people with openness and love. You don't have to start this pop star against pop star war."

Read the rest of Nicki Minaj's interview at The New York Times Magazine.