Cardi B doubled down on her use of the R-word despite acknowledging fans’ anger and discomfort.
The “WAP” rapper was recently named Billboard’s Woman of the Year. In her cover story, published on Wednesday, the magazine’s hip-hop editor, Carl Lamarre, asked whether she felt that “expectations are still higher for female artists.”
“I don’t want to be like, ‘Oh, female artists, we have it hard.’ But we do f—ing be having it mad hard!” she replied.
“N—-s be out here doing the most, being disrespectful,” she added. “Just the other day, I was getting chewed up because I said the R-word. Like, how you gonna cancel me for calling myself r—–ed?”
She continued: “They want you to be Mother Teresa, they want you to put out music, and they want you to look a certain way. It’s like, ‘Y’all gotta chill — I’m just a regular-degular b—-, man.'”
The 28-year-old chart-topper was referring to an incident in October when she accidentally posted a nude photo on Instagram and addressed the mistake
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