Jermaine Dupri is in hot water with Cardi B after he made a comment equating current female rappers with strippers. Dupri sat down with People Magazine on Thursday (July 11) and discussed what he sees as a homogenous landscape of female rappers.
“They all rapping about the same thing,” he said. “I don’t think they’re showing us who is the best rapper. For me, it’s like strippers rapping. As far as rap goes, I’m not getting ‘who is the best rapper.’
“I’m getting, like, you got a story about you dancing in the club, YOU got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story…OK. Who’s gonna be the rapper?”
As soon as Cardi caught wind of Dupri’s comments, she unleashed her rage on Instagram and specifically referenced her song “Be Careful” from 2018’s Grammy Award-winning album, Invasion Of Privacy.
She also pointed out she tried to write about other topics, but people didn’t seem to want to hear it.
“First of all, I rap about my pussy because she’s my best friend,” she said. “And second of all, it seems like that’s what people wanna hear.
“When I did ‘Be Careful,’ people was talking mad shit in the beginning, like, ‘What the fuck is this? This is not what I expected. I expected this, I expected that.’ So it’s like, if that’s what people ain’t tryna hear, then I’ma start rapping about my pussy again.”
In the caption, she added, “SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT.”
Cardi also applauded other female rappers “who be rapping their asses off” but appear to lack support from radio and blogs. She deemed Rapsody, Tierra Whack, Kamaiyah and Chika “dope ass rappers” and encouraged her fans to support them.
“That’s it,” she said in the caption. “@rapsody @tierrawhack @oranicuhh @kamaiyah.”
Like she writes her own shit. Her shouting out Rhapsody is like Will Smith shouting out Rakim. Rhapsody is dope, but Cardi is not.
Analogy is not cool… Will is more official to hip hop than any artist of the millenium
He’s right. Which is a shame…where’s mc lyte, kim… da. Brat.. rah dig… these new chicks the worse… they better invest …. doing shows into their 50’s rapping about eating dicks … these LD hoes is sickening…Can’t wait for good music to return … enough of the stripping tracks
He’s right regarding the female artists on the radio. Shit, the same could be said about 98% of the mainstream artists now.
So why did it take this long for her to SUPPORT those other female rappers…seems like she just wants to mob up and needs some backing. If JD never said anything, Cardi wouldn’t be encouraging her fans to go check out other dope female rappers. I’m so sick of this “support mentality” when somebody feels threatened and all of a sudden wants to be on the same team as people they never gave 2 fucks about, until it furthered their own agenda. Real hiphop fans already know who the dope females are, your fans are the young and easily influenced. I will give her credit on keeping it real for one point…she’s right, you ain’t gonna sell records being a lyrically dope female mc so you either sell out for the cash, or keep it real for the respect and make your money elsewhere. With that said I’m not gonna judge her for making her money, but I’m also gonna have to agree with JD’s opinion
Well said….
He’s right but only when it comes to mainstream cause the rap industry has been dummied down. Everyone goin crazy over that wack ass “Megatron” and the song makes no fuckin sense. There are a lot of females out there that have something to say. But you will never hear it on the radio unless you up at 2am
ITs true. There is no one like Ra Digga, Eve, Remy, Lady Luck, Foxy anymore
…Snow
JD was spoiled with Da Brat – her debut was great, where she rapped back to back with BIG. Funkdified!
Her pussy is her best friend… Lot of sex in female hip-hop but no intelligence. These “artists” just lab creations, no substance.
Lady of Rage would eat’em alive like hot potatoes with her afro puffz
True lyrical female rappers like Snow Tha Product will never get any shine based on the fact that they don’t rap like strippers.
New genre Thot Hop
The only complaint about be careful was that she didn’t write it
It’s partly male rappers fault also. Rap is a male dominated genre so if most of the men ain’t talkn bout shit, neither will the women. When in Rome…
Audiences wanna here dumber and dumber music. It’s what sells now
It’s because it’s a minstrel show. There’s an image of the black women they want to portray because they know young black girls can’t seperate reality from theatrics. One Cardi b is gonna create hundreds thousands of “bad bitches” who still haven’t even gone through puberty. Cardi knees what she’s paid for so does Nicki. If black people looked beyond whitey is the devil they’d realise either biggest enemies are among them their biggest biggest enemies look and sound exactly like them.
I see she brought up rapsody fast, because she knows that people know rapsody is the best female rapper doing it, Cardi been out like 3 years now she wants to tell her shrinking fan base to go support other female rappers. I get what J.D is saying but why not take the time to shed light on the actual dope female rappers that’s not using that stripper style rap. That would have been the perfect time for someone like J.D to say Rapsody is the best female rapper but no he does what everybody chooses to do talk about what you don’t like because what you don’t like is the most popular thing, with no quality. He gave what he didn’t like attention and publicity. What he did would be equivalent to walking past the super dope, fine, intelligent chick you are attracted to, and go to the ignorant stripper type and tell her how much you don’t like her while ignoring the one you actually like. He does have some power to put on female rappers too so going out and finding some dope ones could be a solution.
Everything you said was uncut facts
CHE NOIR WOULD BODY ANY OF THOSE FEMALE RAPPERS SHE LISTED. RAPSODY TRASHHH
She’s mad because JD is right and telling the truth. Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, the list goes on. None of them want an honourable rap legacy, all they know how to talk about is but pussy, taking dick and being proud of being a thot.
The truth hurts…he is right though. It’s the same thing in a different package. The only female rapper I respect in the last 10 years as been missy Elliott. She is way more creative than the ones I’m hearing now. None of these females are role models for anything.
If you heard Lalah’s Wisdom by Rapsody and NOT have respect for her after that..then you just dont like MUSIC period
So if JD don’t like what he is hearing then do something about it. I am tired of the bashing of young black women by us black men. JD is the so called king of the south and has been irrelevant now for years. What female rapper has he produced over the last 10 years? The same can be said for male rappers currently. JD pick on someone your size so to speak.
Please go elsewhere with that simp bs.
Nah bruh, truth is truth! Ain’t nobody pickin’ on these trashy behind rappers! Let’s stop separating them into male and female and just put ’em all in one pile, load they ass onto a rocket, and ship they ass into outer space!! And it don’t matter who he produced over the past 10 years, JD NEVER put out any trashy music. And you ain’t NEVER heard of Bow-Wow catching any charges or doing any dumbness whilst he was under the So-So Def umbrella. JD has left a positive legacy that these rappers (not musicians, rappers) choose NOT to follow. And I hope more vets start calling it how they see it instead of backing and supporting trash just because it’s “making money”. Money ain’t everything!
Trashy words and trashy videos are at an all time high in the industry now. They have an agenda to corrupt the minds of our youth. I’ve found that people that brag about their private parts and sex skills are usually just the opposite of what they speak. I’m tired of the thoughtless rap music that is out today. JD never lied when he expressed his opinion on this subject and it needed to be said!
Wait a minute, bih. Why didn’t you support them by doing songs together when you were hot? This stripper hour is sofa king full of it.
I 100% agree with JD but the same can be said about male rappers today as well but that’s another debate. But he’s right, its the same stories…its the same look. If you put all these female rappers in a room, only a handful will standout, the rest will all look and sound the same and that’s sad. Now, at the same time (I can’t believe I’m about to say this but) Cardi B is right also…I hardly ever agree with anything she says…LOL…But people unlike myself don’t want to hear lyricism anymore, they’d rather hear this dumb stupid ass shit that’s being promoted (and they wonder why they call you bitch). There are some nice female lyricist in the game that don’t get support and recognition that they deserve. The females that she named, I’ve only heard of one and that’s Rapsody. Two others that I listen to is Nitty Scott MC who I believe is the best in the game and Snow Tha Product who is very nice. I’m sure there are more. This is a debate that can go on and on but I’m glad JD said what he said.
Jean Grae, Noname, Rhapsody, just a few female rappers who don’t rap about the same thing. JD just should turn of the radio and listen to real hiphop.
But she didn’t write anything though so idk why she’s so upset.
Strippers and Date Rapists.
I think he right when it comes to mainstream female rappers where the music execs and lets face it some fans don’t want rappers female or male to talk about some real shit. In my opinion if female rappers want to make it the mainstream now it seems like they have turn into hoes to be noticed.
Mad respect to Cardi for speaking up the way that she did
Cardi STD doesn’t matter anyways … she doesn’t even write her own music … her opinion doesn’t matter … and the fact that you let her in the culture is ridiculous …. and that wack ass biatch Doja Cat that is running her mouth about Jermaine Dupri (who has done more for the culture than all the female rappers combined) … is pure garbage … just another social media stripper looking for attention because her music doesn’t get her any
Commercial sheep pop radio low fruit music. No talent and rich as hell because most people like low IQ music as far as rap goes. She represents the 90 % . I’ll stick to the 10% that is making thought provoking music for adults that incorporates the elements in it.
This is dismissive in the same way that Miley Cyrus and Post Malone’s statements that everybody got pissed about were. Is nobody mad because he’s just talking about women, or because of ignorance to better music?
Cardo B is terrible no talent and dont get me started on city hoes i meant city girls smh straight GARBAGE……
How is young m.a and Siya like strippers? He said “all” female MCs.
Who?
And obviously it’s just what the music industry encourages/wants. It is believed that sex sells .. you could arguably trace it back to lil Kim, followed by Nicki Minaj, further escalated by cardi b with her recent “porn” video. Also influenced by success’ of Kardashian and other brands which make money off appearance rather than talent. I’m Sure female rappers r pressurised to be sexual becuz the industry believes it a necessary part of the package. But u could say hate the game not the players .. also he is generalising too much cus even cardi b, Megan and city girls .. their lyrics actually only talk about sex a low percentage of the time .. but in terms of how they dress, yes,, if u don’t dress like a stripper then u won’t get as much publicity etc .. or so it’s assumed. Lizzo didn’t used to be half naked..now she is she has blown up even tho previous album was way better.
Kinda true, but Lil Kim finessed her sex rap with hard ass lyrical bars, that the “sex” part of it took a background to all the metaphors and dope flow skills. The same with Nicki, but she took it to the 10th power by penning her own shit. Therefore her sex talk wasn’t “male-driven”, but from a female perspective. Kinda like controlling her own “P” while riding over the beat, without giving up her style or wordplay. Jermaine was 100 about them newbies…they trash and clones!
End of day tho, women don’t like men telling them how to act plus men like looking at strippers so his comments don’t really affect anything. If u want to make the most money in rap, you will dress like a stripper. If u have other priorities u won’t. It’s wrong but blame the media and society and artists who encourage the b.s. by boasting about looking “as good as” Barbie dolls, like that’s more important than rapping skills, I guess ?
Sick of you censoring comments that state facts.
Christ look at the length of those fingernails. no offence or anything but it is like she has the fashion of a crossdresser or a drag queen, not a stripper.
I’m still trying to find where he said something untrue. There have been dope female MCs, Missy, queen latifah, mc lyte, but that’s not who’s getting over now. It sucks, but it’s certainly a fair observation.
Exactly! That was real talk all day! If “they” can’t be versatile and bring strong bars to other topics besides what’s between the legs, or they head-game…then stfu! His word was bond!
Every girl rapper on world-star
I love how people loved to applause Cardi b for pointing out these rappers but don’t talk about how these ladies don’t even go gold let alone platinum and get outsold by Iggy azalea and even bad bhabi. In fact Rapsody didn’t get nominated for an Oscar. The hipocresy