Cardi B Said She Feels Like a ‘Lioness’ After Blistering Feud With Nicki Minaj
Though Cardi B and Nicki Minaj’s recent social media spat turned ugly quickly, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper said she walked away from it feeling strong. What started as a back-and-forth over Cardi’s album sales blew up into a wide-ranging battle. When reflecting on the feud, Cardi said she feels proud of the way she defended her children.
Cardi B and Nicki Minaj’s feud turned ugly
In a series of now-deleted posts on X (formerly Twitter), Minaj seemed to insinuate that the sales for Cardi’s album Am I the Drama? were inflated due to the price. Cardi fired back, kicking off a feud that lasted several days.
In increasingly heated posts, Minaj poked fun at Cardi’s pregnancy and insulted the appearance of Cardi’s six-year-old daughter, Kulture. Cardi responded by alleging that Minaj used drugs and wondering if that impacted her son’s development.
Both wrote apology letters to one another’s children, but they didn’t exactly come off as sincere.
Cardi B said she felt like a lioness while defending her kids in Nicki Minaj feud
After Minaj posted about Kulture, Cardi threatened to turn the feud physical. She later spoke about defending her children during the feud.
“I feel like, definitely this week, my mother warrior came out. I was fighting for my kids,” she told Paper Magazine. “This week I showed the world that I will get the most nasty about mine, and it was, it felt so weird, because I never had to get that nasty for my kids. But I did, and I really feel like a lioness.”
She said that the feud made her realize she was willing to do anything for her children.
“This has been one of the moments I got tested the most about being a parent,” she said. “But it just goes to show me how strong I am, and it just goes to show me that it’s like, damn, I will really take it to hell for mines: mentally, physically, anything. And I wouldn’t care.”
She said drama seems to find her
While Cardi didn’t reignite the feud, she was more than willing to duke it out with Minaj over social media. Still, she said this type of drama exhausts her.
“I be every kind of tired and it exhausts me,” she said. “There’s drama that I expected to come. Because if I’m throwing shots at b****es, I expect the drama to come from them. I’m not gonna act like, Oh, it wasn’t gonna come when I’m directly talking to you. I can’t be surprised that a b**** is trying me, because I pull their cards. However, when people just be trying you, and you’re not even paying attention to them, you’re not even talking to them about them, it’s like, This is why I say that I am the drama.”
She said that drama comes to her even when she tries to avoid it, making the title of her sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, feel fitting.
“I even bother b****es when I don’t even give them attention,” she said. “It’s still an issue. So that just means that is that. I am the drama. No matter how much I avoid it is gonna come to me. It’s gonna come to me even with the stupidest stuff. Even with the court s***. Look how it always falls on my lap, honey. One way or another, it just don’t f***ing stop.”
