Cardi B Host on musical influences

    by It's Cardi: Cardi B

    Barbz are still mad Cardi B skipped Nicki Minaj as a musical influence, yet she insists she loves Nicki's music and talent while calling the behavior over the last four months fake. She explains avoiding Foxy in interviews because she knows for a fact Foxy never liked her, preferring to cite Missy Elliott as an artist she grew up listening to and seeing from New York. Cardi emphasizes that female rappers must possess their own unique style and swag to succeed in the mainstream rather than imitating others. She breaks down how she is a New York hood bitch, Megan Thee Stallion brings sexy college fun bestie energy, Glorilla offers down south rawness, and the City Girls deliver Banji Miami New Age vibes. If you imitate other bitches' mannerisms, you aren't being yourself and won't make it because people want to relate to who you actually are. She became famous by being herself instead of acting like someone else. Right now she has no current problems with anyone and is at peace, focusing on personal matters, contracts, and tour preparations before the end of the year.

    Transcript (en)

    So why is it that when I do an interview, and yeah, there was Foxy too. I don't really like mentioning Foxy because I know for a fact Foxy never fucking liked me. Who the fuck you don't like me or not? Like, well, one thing I'm not ever going to lie is that. Y'all used to listen to music when I was younger. Hell yeah, of course. It bothers y'all. It triggers y'all so much. This is what I grew up listening to. This is what I grew up seeing, especially being from New York. Yeah, when somebody else came in the fucking scene, I was already 17. Yes, of course, listening to them and everything, but it's like, no. Like I said, when I was growing up, this other woman that I was listening to and seeing on television. Missy Elliott. Since 2017, y'all could call and clock back and check shit from 2017. I know what y'all want me to say. I'm definitely not. I suck my dick. Y'all done? And I don't talk about y'all faves. I don't this and that. I do my own shit. Y'all fave do some shit every other day. Go pay attention to that. My fans, pay attention to me. Go pay attention to who y'all like. Go to their interviews. Go to the shit they got going on. And I give props to everybody. Let me tell you something. I give props to everybody that came before me. Being in the game for so long and having to maintain your name and having to be able to stay where you are for a long time. It's something that you should pat yourself in the back for. You know what I'm saying? When it comes to being a female rapper, the only way to make it is bringing your own swag. All these female rappers that are mainstream, each and every one of us are a little different than each other. I am a New York hood bitch Then you got somebody like Megan She gives more sexy college fun bestie girl And then there somebody like Glorilla She gives her down south rawness You got like the city girls. They give like Banji, Miami, New Age, Trina. I feel like in order for you to make it, everybody got their own swag. Everybody got their own style. Everybody got their own shit. If you imitating other bitches, you're not going to make it. If you imitate other bitches' mannerism, you're not going to make it. Because you're not being yourself. So me making it, it was because I'm being myself. There's nobody that I ever want to be. I became famous being Cardi B. Once you start acting like somebody else, people just don't like you. People want to see you. They want to relate to you. Keep me out of your shit. Keep me out of your bullshit. I'm at peace. I don't give a fuck what nobody got going on. I don't got no problem with nobody right now. I'm good. I'm focusing on myself. I'm focusing on motherfucking closing a lot of shit going on. I have to do so many things before this year end because I got to go on tour. I got to sign these contracts. I got to do all this shit. It's a lot of things coming on and nothing is going to stop it. Please. I hope y'all don't think that was trying to be shady. I love her music. I think she's so talented. She's a cutie. I don't like the other bitch though. I don't give a fuck. Yeah, I'm saying what the fuck I said. Bitch has been fucking fake trying to sub me and shit for four months straight. I ain't saying they ain't no they don't have the shit I really want to say I love my fans and I love my haters too I love everybody I don't got I don't got nothing to tell y'all