Cardi B Speaks Out On Why She Thinks Other Women In Rap Throw Shade Her Way

Cardi B is never one to bite her tongue, we know this, and in a new sit down with Zane Lowe she got candid about why she feels some women in rap keep coming for her. The Bronx superstar says she recognizes the chatter on the socials and thinks the criticism comes from a deeper place.

“For some reason, it’s something about me that these bitches can’t stand,” Cardi told Zane Lowe in an interview. “They can’t fk with me. Some bitches, I feel like they’re on this class right now, they’re sophomores, and I’m a senior,” she continued. “And it’s like you want to fk with the senior so bad. You think you’re here with the senior. You’re not even a junior.”

Get this, she kept the same energy when breaking down why she believes the tension lingers. “And it’s like you need to worry about them other sophomores before you start worrying about here, the fking senior,” she added. “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 fing sophomore or in motherf**ing college, it’s me.”

What’s interesting is the timing of her comments lines up with the run up to Am I The Drama, her long awaited second album. Cardi has already been making waves with the single “Imaginary Playerz” which samples JAY Z. Some critics were quick to fire back online, and she let it be known she sees the shade.

“For people to dog pile on me over one song,” Cardi said on X Spaces. “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 f**k I think I am, to talk about every single piece of me, to bet on my downfall is crazy.”

She did not stop there, calling out the energy some men put into seeing her stumble. “There’s grown men that are practically betting for me to lose. Grown-ass men that I ain’t never did nothing to, betting on my downfall,” she said. “And my thing is with these people, it just be like, when my record do good, when ‘Outside’ did good, people couldn’t believe it.”