Cardi B: The #MeToo Movement forgot about hip-hop, ‘nobody gives a f–k’
March 22, 2018
I’ve said this before and I’ll keep saying it: I like Cardi B. I think she’s got a really funny, biting, caustic wit. She’s immensely quotable and she’s a self-made star. Does it follow that everything she does and says is completely perfect and politically correct? Of course not. But I’d rather gossip about Cardi B than the dozens of milquetoast nepotism models who can barely stutter out one complete sentence. Anyway, Cardi B covers the current issue of Cosmopolitan – I covered the early excerpts already. Cosmo released their full cover story, and there are even better quotes. Some highlights:
On people who harp on her for not “really” being black: “My features, my nose, my lips, the little bit of color that I have, my hair texture—it didn’t come from two white people f–king each other.”
The Me Too Movement won’t get much traction in hip-hop: “A lot of video vixens have spoke about this and nobody gives a f–k. When I was trying to be a vixen, people were like, ‘You want to be on the cover of this magazine?’ Then they pull their d-cks out. I bet if one of these women stands up and talks about it, people are going to say, ‘So what? You’re a ho. It don’t matter.’”
On the men who are trying to be Me Too allies: “These producers and directors, they’re not woke, they’re scared.”
Her fanbase interactions remind her of high school: “Everybody got different beliefs and different religions and were raised differently, yet you also supposed to be careful you don’t offend somebody. Everybody gets bothered about everything. Everybody got a f–king opinion about you. You always got to filter yourself.”
On the women telling her that she needs to leave Offset: “Since when are all these women dating pastors and deacons? I’m going to take my time, and I’m going to decide on my decision. None of these bitches is going to eat my p–sy at the end of the day. None of y’all bitches going to hug me to sleep and clean the tears off my face, so let me deal how I want to deal with it. It’s not right, what he f–king did—but people don’t know what I did, ’cause I ain’t no angel.”
Who she looks up to: “I’m not going to say an artist, because I don’t know their life.” Instead, she names her mother as well as her cousin Marlene, who commutes hours each day to and from work, raises a child alone, and pays all her own bills. “I wouldn’t be able to do that, ’cause I would be like, ‘Uh, I’m finding a sugar daddy,’” Cardi says, laughing. “But she does it. That’s the type of sh-t that I be looking up to. I’m like, Damn, my bitch works so hard.”
What she says about video vixens and hip hop is very true, and it’s why so many women (like Gabrielle Union, Lupita) were like “uh, this isn’t just a white actress thing.” It’s fine line of wanting women to feel like their stories can be told and believed versus offering reminders that women of color have it harder in every industry, and that their stories are often ignored. As for what she says about her fans telling her to leave Offset… I mean, it’s true? And plus she’s pregnant. We can think, quietly and to ourselves, that she has a messy romantic life AND we can believe that she’ll figure out her sh-t.
Cover courtesy of Cosmopolitan, additional photos courtesy of WENN.
