BIA is once again speaking on her ongoing issues with Cardi B, saying she’s “here for a bigger mission right now.”
In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, the Bianca rapper shut down rumors that a supposed sex tape was tied to their feud (“It has nothing to do with a sex tape”) and clarified that the Stefon Diggs reference in her “+44” track was written “long before” any drama with Cardi began.
When asked about the beef, BIA told Charlamagne tha God and the hosts that her focus isn’t on the feud at all.
“This isn’t even about her,” she explained. “This is really about real artists — the ones who get up, go to the studio, care about the creative, and make it happen with limited resources. I’m speaking for them. This isn’t about her anymore. I’m anti-machine.”
BIA also doubled down on earlier statements about the situation and addressed whether fans could expect a direct response to Cardi’s recent diss track.
“I’d be doing myself a disservice after everything I’ve put into this album by making it about her,” she said on Monday’s episode. “I could drop something anytime — that record came out a year ago. But I’d be doing myself a disservice, I’ll say that.”
She added, “There’s way more to my message and purpose than rap beef. I’ve been doing this for over 10 years and never gotten into one. That says a lot about me. I have great relationships in this business because I carry myself a certain way. Why would I ruin that? I can address it anytime, but right now, I’m focused on a bigger mission.”
Though BIA and Cardi B’s tension stretches back to before the Am I the Drama? era, their feud has clearly intensified in recent weeks. On her Drama track “Pretty & Petty,” released in September, Cardi took multiple shots at BIA — even kicking off the first verse with, “Name five BIA songs, gun pointin’ to your head/Bow, I’m dead.”
Soon after, during a Hot 97 interview, BIA spoke about the diss and claimed to know the true roots of her and Cardi’s issues. Cardi later fired back on X Spaces, saying that BIA’s breakout hit “Whole Lotta Money” was originally sent to her first.
“You’re not interesting enough for me to look at you,” Cardi said at the time. “You’re not creative, your music is boring, everything about you is boring. I don’t care nothing about you.”
Most recently, Cardi revealed she delayed releasing the Instagram video for “Pretty & Petty” because it would have dropped too close to BIA’s Bianca album release. According to Cardi, releasing it then would’ve felt like “bullying.”
