Cardi B isn’t blind to the way some female rappers feel about her.
“For some reason, it’s something about me that these bitches can’t stand,” she told Zane Lowe around the 15-minute mark of their conversation.
“They can’t fuck with me. Some bitches, I feel like they’re on this class right now, they’re sophomores, and I’m a senior. And it’s like you want to fuck with the senior so bad. You think you’re here with the senior. You’re not even a junior.”
“And it’s like you need to worry about them other sophomores before you start worrying about here, the fucking senior,” Cardi continued. “But it’s something about it that it’s like they can’t even focus on them. They got to focus on me. And they always got to focus on throwing me shots and throwing me slings. No matter if you’re a fucking sophomore or in motherfucking college, it’s me.”
Cardi has been locked in a long-running feud with Nicki Minaj that’s stretched nearly a decade. Whispers of their beef first surfaced in 2017, fueled by subtle disses and tense interviews, before exploding in 2018 when the two got into a physical altercation at New York Fashion Week’s Harper’s Bazaar Icons party.
Her latest remarks also come on the heels of comments she made last week about “grown ass men” rooting for her downfall. Speaking on X Spaces, Cardi called out men who constantly throw shade at her and her music, especially after the release of her Jay-Z-sampling track, Imaginary Playerz.
“For people to dog pile on me over one song,” she said. “And when it comes to dog piling, it’s not even just like, ‘Oh well, I don’t like this song,’ because if you don’t like this song, fine, but to come at the way I speak, to make narratives of how I think I am and who the fuck I think I am, to talk about every single piece of me, to bet on my downfall is crazy.”
The 32-year-old is now gearing up for the drop of her highly anticipated sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, which is set to arrive next month.
