Did Cardi B admit on her Instagram to committing a felony??
That’s what people are accusing the Bodak Yellow rapper of after a video resurfaced in which she appears to say she drugged and robbed men in her stripper days.
Someone dug up the old video on Sunday and posted it to Twitter where Cardi was the center of a very different kind of controversy than she’s accustomed to.
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Apparently it was just another IG live in which Cardi complained about not being taken seriously as an artist. She maintained that yes she had in fact pulled herself up by her bootstraps and earned this, first having to make the 50 grand she had to pay for studio time to get her early tracks done.
And to do that, as we’ve all heard, she worked as a stripper. Only, that’s not all she did. She says in the 2016 vid:
“I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f**k me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n***as up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do.”
Um… what?!
Yeah, she definitely confessed to committing a really serious crime. See for yourself at about the 1:31 mark:
Drugging and robbing men? That’s horrible!
Naturally, many were shocked and offended, and the hashtag #SurvivingCardiB — a play on the title of the R. Kelly documentary — began spreading like wildfire. See some of the tweets AND Cardi’s (sort of) apologetic response (below):
When Cardi saw the story going viral, she knew she had to say something.
She posted an Instagram — written, not live, because who knows what she might say this time — addressing the controversy:
“So I’m seeing on social media that a live I did 3 years ago has popped back up. A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living.”
Hold up. Nope. Gotta stop you there.
A LOT of people come from poverty. Far too many, really. Most don’t have to drug and rob folks to get by. Insinuating that to let yourself off the hook is dishonest and careless.
OK, go on.
“I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world wit a perfect past I always speak my truth I always own my s**t. Im apart [sic] of a hip hop culture where you can talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are. There are rappers what glorify murder violence drugs an robbing. Crimes they feel they had to do to survive.”
She isn’t wrong. A great many rappers have glorified criminal pasts to both critical acclaim and moral outrage.
“I never glorified the things I brought up in that live I never even put those things in my music because I’m not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it. I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options. I was blessed to have been able to rise from that but so many women have not.”
You were blessed? Or you robbed enough other people in a bad situation that eventually you had enough of their money to get you out of that situation?
“Whether or not they were poor choices at the time I did what I had to do to survive.”
Again. Surviving and being able to afford 50k for studio time are NOT the same thing. She’s really playing up this hard knock life thing while trying to sweep under the rug the fact the money was for a luxury item…
But it’s her final excuse that seems to change the entire defense:
“The men I spoke about in my live were men that I dated that I was involve with men that were conscious willing and aware. I have a past I can’t change we all do.”
Huh??
So at first it was that drugging and robbing men was a result of her situation, her hardscrabble existence on the mean streets — then suddenly it wasn’t even like that?
The men weren’t drugged but “conscious, willing, and aware” — and they weren’t just some strip club customers, she was robbing men she was dating??
WTF is she even talking about??
Cardi concluded with the caption:
“All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my future.”
Uh huh.
What do YOU think of Cardi’s controversy? And that… apology, we guess?!
[Image via WENN.]