Cardi B appeared on a new interview with Apple Music, soon after unveiling the music video for her hot new bop with Megan Thee Stallion, ‘WAP’.
The Billboard chart-topping rapper, dished on a number of subjects relating to her upcoming music and the current music scene for female rappers. But the one thing that caught everyone’s attention was her ‘indirect’ praise for fellow rapper, Nicki Minaj.
Cardi, when quizzed about the female rapper scene in music biz right now, started speaking on the lack of the same during a certain time in the mid 2000’s. Going ahead in the conversation, the ‘Bodak Yellow’ femcee, spoke of the advent of Nicki Minaj and her domination on charts, without name-dropping, speaking highly of her success.
Here’s what she said:
“When I was six, seven, eight, there was a lot different female rappers. And then there was a time that there was no female rappers at all. I have to keep replaying songs from the early 2000s. I have to keep replaying it, replaying it, replaying it because for a while there wasn’t no female rapper. And then there was one female rapper that dominated for a very long time. You know what I’m saying? And she did pretty good. She’s been still dominating.”
Speaking further on how females in the biz are often pitted against each other, Cardi said:
“I feel like people be wanting to put female artists against each other. Every single time I feel like there’s a female artist that’s coming up, coming up, coming up and it’s getting they mainstream moment, I always see like little slick comments like, ‘Oh, they taking over your spot. They taking over this. They taking over that.’ And it just makes me feel like, damn, why it had to be like that? Because I actually like shorty music a lot. Why does it even have to be like that?”
The ‘I actually like shorty music’ was probably a remark meant for Nicki.
Watch the whole interview below:
So just like our good ole’ wish, may be Cardi and Nicki will finally join hands and sing Kumbaya?