Cardi B has gone on the defense regarding her using songwriters in the studio to help craft some of the music she creates.
The “Bongos” rapper was originally responding to a post that The Neighborhood Talk put up that saw her stating that Hip Hop started in the Bronx while at the 2023 MTV Video Music awards.
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She then doubled back and responded to a user who apparently criticized her about her lyrical abilities as a solo artist.
“I started music before LHH [Love and Hip Hop] and wrote about MY struggles and life as a dancer,” Cardi B explained. “Go listen to them mixtapes also I went to school for musical theatre and technology.”
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She added: “Just because somebody might help me with a hook means nothing. Look at all ya fav artists credits they all do receive some type of help.”
Check out her comment below:
Cardi B defends using songwriters to help her write lyricshttps://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/LQHmCORN6g
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 16, 2023
In the spirit of putting people in check, the Bronx superstar took to IG live on earlier this week to respond to Joe Budden’s alleged personal criticism of her new single “Bongos.”
Cardi said that she doesn’t feel the criticism of her raunchy collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion is entirely justified.
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“I just feel like he has an issue with me,” she began. “And it was beyond the critique of ‘Bongos’ — it’s just you inviting bitches who said the rudest, nastiest shit … when Mal and Rory say fuck shit about you, you get so defensive and you want to clear it up.
“You came at Taxstone because Taxstone said something about you. You expect people to understand you and you expect people to take your side.”
Joe Budden caught wind of Cardi B’s response and fired back on the latest episode of his eponymous podcast. The former Slaughterhouse MC pointed to all the times he’s complimented her, questioning why she’s decided to speak up the “one time” he said something negative about her.
“Don’t play with me like that because y’all know I fuck with Cardi,” he said. “But I stand on what I said about the song. And I said it pretty respectfully.”
He went on: “I ain’t here to shatter nobody’s dreams… For me, it’s if I didn’t hear nothing from none of y’all the nine million times I bigged you up, I definitely don’t want to hear from you the one time I didn’t.”
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Earlier this week, Budden blasted “Bongos” for sounding like “two women that can’t make a song” while saying he thought the record was “contrived” and was like a “science project” cooked up by “AI.”
“I hate the song. It’s not better than any of the songs like it. ‘WAP,’ ‘Up,’ it’s not better than Cardi B feature,” he said on a previous episode of his podcast.
