Cardi B has said that she’s not “proud” of her past in response to the backlash she’s received after a video of her saying she used to drug and rob men when she was a stripper popped up on social media.
The Grammy award-winning rapper took to her Instagram page on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, where she shared a posted on her response to the claims that she drugged and robbed men of their belongings years ago.
“I’m a part of a hip-hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are, There are rappers that glorify murder violence drugs an robbing. Crimes they feel they had to do to survive. I never glorified the things I brought up in that live I never even put those things in my music because I’m not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it,” she wrote.
She went on to caption the post with a quote which insinuated that she was moving on to better things. ‘’All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my future.”
Cardi B’s latest comments are coming a few days after a video she reportedly made over three years ago surfaced. In the video, Cardi B is said to have revealed that she use to drug and rob men when she was a stripper.
“I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f*ck me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n***as up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do.”
Cardi previously spoke about being an exotic dancer last year. In the April 2018 issue of Cosmopolitan, the rapper addressed why she’s open to speaking about her pole-dancing days: “People say, ‘Why do you always got to say that you used to be a stripper? We get it.’ Because y’all don’t respect me because of it, and y’all going to respect these strippers from now on… Just because somebody was a stripper don’t mean they don’t have no brain.”