Cardi B was recently put under the social media microscope after old footage of her questionable past resurfaced.
In a 2016 Instagram Live video, she admits to drugging and robbing men she’d lure to random hotels on the premise of sex.
On Tuesday (March 26), the “Bodak Yellow” phenom wrote a lengthy Instagram post about the video and explained she felt she had no other option at the time.
“So I’m seeing on social media that a live I did 3 years ago has popped back up,” she began. “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. 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 shit.”
Cardi went on to say Hip Hop culture is littered with confessional lyrics about drugs and violence, something she feels is often exalted. In her defense, she points out she never glorified anything she did in her past within the context of her music.
“Im apart of a 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,” she continued. “There are rappers that glorify murder violence drugs an robbing. Crimes they feel 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 I spoke about in my life 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.”
In the Instagram caption, Cardi wrote, “All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my future.”
As a result of the tape, a #SurvivingCardiB hashtag started making the rounds, a nod to Lifetime’s damning Surviving R. Kelly documentary. Fans, of course, are divided on the issue. Some can’t believe the Grammy Award winner engaged in that kind of behavior, while others are accusing her of being a rapist.
Check out some of the reactions below.
I’d just like to point out that it clearly says she would drug them and then rob them! How is that rape? Not saying what she did is ok but she’s not a rapist, conartist maybe ….
Shes a piece of garbage and a simpleton. Democrats attaching themselves to people like this are why Trump is getting elected again.
I didnt vote bc i didnt like either. But democrats and liberals showed their colors when they lost. Im voting trump 2020. Liberals like cardbi b got most skeletons than a cemetery but swear their perfect on twitter
Hell yeaH! Trump 2020. The Democrats have lost their damn minds. They’re killing babies in third term abortions, spreading fake dossiers paid for by Hillary, Russia this, Russian spy that, having meltdowns over Supreme Court nominees, dressing up like Vaginas while protesting and screaming at the sky, having Madonna yelling about becoming a terrorist bomber and killing everyone in the White House. Uh, too damn much. I’m picking the lesser of two crazies.
She thought it was so cute to say that out loud. What an idiot. Hold her accountable for this. If a man said something like this their career is would be over.
Lol….. she didn’t sound cute saying it bruh!! she said that shit shamefully while telling shit she felt she had to do to get money to survive…she was breaking down during this rant….doesn’t make it right, but she wasn’t boasting about the shit….
What difference does it make? Does that make her any less of a lowlife criminal? She coulda got a normal job like regular people do but she chose to be a disgusting inhumane scum bag. Thats on her. She needs to be held accountable.
Thats disgusting. If a man admitted to something like this their career would be over and they would be sued and/or imprisoned. I hope her victims file civil suits. And I hope the media holds her accountable but we know thats not likely to happen. If a white man said this they are scum of the earth and criminals but a black/latina woman saying it they are cute and funny and its not a big deal. Selective outrage. The democratic party is over.
White man get away with it all the time. Nobody should get away with it. Stop playing politics and race baiting clown
GFY jerkoff
TITSorGTFO bish…
If i was gonna pay for a hooker it certainly wouldn’t be some ghetto trashbag who looks like curious george.
I sit back and watch ppl get destroyed for 1 thing likre cosby then i see the same thing happen except it was openly admitted but bc shes a woman in the spotlight shell remain unaffected.. When all men realize laws are against all of us thing will change.
Shes out here rly calling trump names but rapped robbed and drugged men lmao u cant make this up
Facts
Facts !!!!!!!
Facts !!!!!!! This shit is crazy
Saying Bill Cosby got destroyed for “one thing” is only accurate if by “one thing” you mean drugging and raping over fifty people, you clown.
I demand harvey winstiend be released theb
i told yall dont trust this pocket picker trash bitch
what a surprise! next thing to discover is that she has aids and has being spreading that shit like nonsense
This bitch justifying her illegal and disgusting past behaviors off of “I had to do it to survive”. Bitch, you could have gotten off the couch and got your ass a proper job. No need to rape, steal and rob folks.
But u said it and it wasn’t cool but everybody wanna bash R Kelly and Bill Cosby . Smh ?♂️ y’all is fuck up out here.. drugging people doe???? That’s crazy
Nuff said…next?
People in extreme situations will use extreme measures. I don’t condone what she did, but I don’t think she glorified it either.
She was dumb enough to say it out loud like it was an acceptable thing to do. She needs to be held accountable. Betaaaaa.
You gotta get yours however you can get it
Are y’all really outraged, or does it just feel like you should be? This is not a surprise. Strippers do shady shit for money. It is what it is. If you regularly take random strippers home, you will get robbed eventually.
Yea, I’m really outraged. Just cause other strippers do this too does not make her any less of a slimeball. She needs to be held accountable like any man would be if they were in this situation. Stop being a beta male and letting things like this slip under the rug.
I guess. Where I’m from, if you take a chick from out the strip club to your home and get robbed, you’re the lame one for not knowing better. I would imagine that would apply a lot of other places too.
*Rides off bumping Mona Lisa*
Where you’re from people have low iq
She had very limited options. You know how it is… you don’t want to take a regular job like everybody else, so you have to become a stripper, drug men, and rob them. No choice.
Y’all really pulling down comments over here.
Clearly she doesn’t understand hip hop & the culture. There’s a huge difference between saying something in a song versus actually coming out and publicly saying you did something… She should be held accountable.
Give her the R-Kelly treatment
Better yet, give her the Bill Cosby treatment
You have low comprehension skills, huh?
bottom line, it’s a crime they all committed in the past.. they all should be locked up for it
female minority. they’ll let her slide
I’ve seen worse
And what’s worse, is that Melanie DENIED the allegations, and there’s quite a bit of evidence backing her up. But Cardi literally admitted to it and doesn’t get anywhere near as much hate.