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*Cardi B is firing back at Jermaine Dupri after the hip-hop veteran slammed this new wave of female femcees, who he described as “strippers rapping.”
During an appearance on PEOPLE Now, Dupri was asked to name his favorite female rapper and he drew a blank. The hosts then names Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, and Cardi B — but JD was not impressed.
“I can’t really say. The only reason why I can’t say is because I feel they’re all rapping about the same things,” he explained. “I don’t think they’re showing us who’s the best rapper. I think they’re trying to show—for me, it’s like strippers rapping. And as far as rap goes, I’m not getting who’s the best rapper. I’m getting like, ‘OK, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story about you dancing in the club.’ It’s like, ‘OK, who’s going to be the rapper?’ At some point, somebody’s going to have to break out of that mold and just show us—talk about other things, just rap about other things besides that.”
Watch him tell it via the Instagram video embed below.
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Jermaine noted that Da Brat paved the way for them to “sell a lot of records.”
“Brat was the first female artist to go platinum, so we together broke the mold… and since then female rappers have been able to sustain and sell a lot of records, more records than guys, but before Brat that wasn’t happening,” he said.
Cardi caught wind of Dupri’s comments and fired back in an Instagram video saying, “I have seen a lot of people sayin’ ‘Nowadays, female rappers only talk about they pussy and shit. And now that Jermaine Dupri bring it up, now I’m gonna say something about it, right,” she said.
“First of all, I rap about my p*ssy because she’s my best friend, you know what I’m sayin’? And second of all, it seems like that’s what people wanna hear. I ain’t even gonna front, because let me tell you something: When I did ‘Be Careful,’ people was talking mad sh*t in the beginning, like, ‘What the f*ck is this? This is not what I expected. I expected this, I expected that.’ So it’s like, if that’s what people ain’t tryna hear, then, alright, I’mma start rapping about my p*ssy again.”
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In a follow up second video she blasted blogs for not supporting female rappers who aren’t raunchy.
“There’s a lot of female rappers that be rapping they ass off and don’t be talking about they pussy and don’t be talking about getting down and dirty, and y’all don’t be supporting them,” Cardi said. “Y’all don’t be supporting them and they be mad dope. These bloggers don’t support them, they don’t give them the recognition. So don’t blame that shit on us when y’all not the ones that’s supporting them.”
She then gave credit to artists like Tierra Whack, Rapsody, and Kamaiyah, noting: “These girls can rap they asses off and they don’t rap about their vaginas and sucking d—.”
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