The Bronx rapper has been the recipient of a lot of smoke over the years.
Cardi B attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. Amy Sussman/Getty Images
Cardi B is fed up, and understandably so. The Bronx rapper has said that she is done with diss records and subliminals and instead invited anyone with a problem to catch the fade in person.
“I’m done with bi**hes. I’m done with the arguing,” she said in an X Spaces, formerly known as Twitter Spaces, this week. “If anybody want to see me, they can fight me. I got short nails now so if anybody got an issue with me, they can link up and they can fight me. But I’m not going back and forth no more with no bi**h on Instagram, on social media, on records, nothing.”
The “Enough (Miami)” artist acknowledged the fact that she has been dealing with this energy for her entire career and she is tired. “That sh*t been for six years already,” she said. “And guess what? No matter if I’m right or wrong, I’ll always look like the villain. But y’all need to leave me alone. Leave me alone. I’m not even being cocky about my accomplishments. I can really sh*t if I wanted to.”
It is safe to assume that this anger stems from Cardi B’s recent back and forth with BIA. The Medford, Mass. rapper called her out for sampling Missy Elliott’s 1999 record “She’s A Bi**h” similarly to how she did on her 2023 track “I’m That Bi**h” featuring Timbaland. The Invasion Of Privacy rapper did not mention BIA by name, but many people thought a tweet around the time was targeted at her.
“Bi**hes make a fool of themselves every single time [crying laughing emoji],” Cardi wrote on X. “Ima show ya something when I release this song tho [winking emoji].” Fans added fuel to the fire when the Grammy winner first teased “Like What (Freestyle),” posting side-by-side videos of her record and BIA’s and saying that BIA was “on Cardi’s mood board a lot.”
The “London” rapper responded to this account with emojis, which many believed signified that she agreed with the idea.
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— BIA (@BIABIA) March 5, 2024
Cardi B’s biggest opponent over her career has been Nicki Minaj, who many believed she dissed on “Like What (Freestyle)” when she rapped “Everything you got, I had five years before.” She seemingly referred to the fact her breakthrough single “Bodak Yellow” went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, whereas it took Nicki over a decade to get her first solo No. 1 with “Super Freaky Girl.”
They infamously got into a fight at New York Fashion Week in 2018. Others got involved in the scuffle, and Cardi reportedly threw her shoe at Minaj.
“For a while now she’s been taking a lot of shots at me,” Cardi told W Magazine about why she was willing to get things shaking at the prestigious event. “I spoke to her twice before, and we came to an understanding. But she kept it going. I was going to make millions off my Bruno Mars tour, and I sacrificed that to stay with my daughter. I love my daughter. I’m a good-a** f**king mom. So for somebody that don’t have a child to like that comment?”
