Cardi B is learning first-hand that there are going to be many pockets of turbulence when you skyrocket to fame.
First off, any and everything she does is being recorded and written about by the local and national media as well as blogs. Secondly, people are going to pop up, like weeds in the cracks of sidewalks, looking for a quick come up at Cardi B’s expense, including launching frivolous lawsuits.
Frivolous or not, the man who appears to be performing oral sex on Cardi B on the cover of her mixtape is outraged because he claims he never posed for the photo, and never signed off on his image being used in such a sexual manner.
Cardi’s Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 cover features her guzzling down a beer with her legs open as a shirtless guy, with very elaborate tattoos, is performing oral sex on the rapper.
The man in question, Kevin Brophy, told the press that image is of him, but he only found out about it when a friend said how crazy is it that you’re “cunnilinging [sic] this rapper called Cardi B.”
According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, the artwork made for a seriously awkward moment when Brophy’s pre-K son asked what Daddy was doing in the picture, and “Who’s that girl?” Brophy says his son keeps bringing it up, too.
In the docs, Brophy says he’s never met Cardi or spoken to her or her people, but he knows that’s his distinct back art of a tiger battling a snake … which he’s had for 10 years.
He obviously knows who the “Bodak Yellow” rapper is now. Brophy’s making a money move of his own … suing Cardi and her managers for at least $5M.
Cardi B, 25, who was born Belcalis Almanzar in the Bronx, New York, has taken the music industry and pop culture by storm ever since her debut single, “Bodak Yellow,” shot to No. 1 like a bullet on the Billboard Pop Charts. The former stripper built up such a huge Instagram following she eventually became a regular on the hit reality show “Love and Hip Hop New York.”
