Cardi B, one of America’s most popular and ubiquitous rags-to-riches stories in music today, is the latest celebrity who has been made to answer for her social media posts. A video Cardi posted on her Instagram Stories three years ago has surfaced in which she admits to sleeping with men, drugging them and then robbing them. Cardi, who is well-liked because of her candor and bold disposition, is now in hot water because of it.
In the video, Cardi spoke passionately about her past life.
“I did it myself. N—-s must of forgot, my n—a. The s–t that I did to motherf—–s survive. I had to go strip. I had to go. oh yeah you wanna f— me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s go to this hotel, and I drug n—-s up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do. Nothing was motherf—ing handed to me,” she said.
In today’s #MeToo environment and with the court of public opinion, it would not be a stretch to think that Cardi B would be called on the carpet for admitting the criminal acts that have helped her along her journey.
Cardi B’s rise has been meteoric. She has turned a stripper pole into Grammy gold and shows no signs of going back. However, she has not left this latest scandal totally unscathed. A hashtag — #SurvivingCardiB — was created, and many have voiced their displeasure and disagreement with Cardi’s past criminal acts.
So music stations are still going to play Cardi B. Double standards. #SurvivingCardiB trending
— Jana (@JezebelJana) March 26, 2019
Cardi obviously felt the heat and issued this statement via her Instagram page:
“So I’m seeing on social media tray a love I did 3 years ago has popped back up. A live where I talk about the things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living. I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world with a perfect past. I always speak my truth I always own my sh—. I’m apart of hip hop culture where you can talk about where you come from talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are. There are rappers that glorify murder violence drugs and robbing. Crimes they had to do to survive. 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. Whether or not they were poor choices at the time I did what I had to do to survive. The men that 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 that I can’t change we all do. (sic)”
To watch the video of Cardi B’s Instagram confession, click the next page (NFSW).
